Whitehorse Daily Star

December 9, 2005

• Editorial MP's boosters can keep the champagne chilled Anyone with a credible theory on how to defeat a Yukon MP who scored a 5,721-vote landslide election victory 18 months ago ought to bottle and label it. Those who have and who plan to square off against Liberal incumbent Larry Bagnell might be willing to pay a nifty price for such a super-tonic.
• Michael Brine Let's face down the fear factor FARO Society has to learn that the only way to work is from the heart. Let me state at the outset that there is a difference between having
• Julius Debuschewitz This campaign will hardly be mundane As expected, Paul Martin's government in Ottawa has finally fallen.

December 7, 2005

• Dan Davidson The independent ways of Peter Jenkins DAWSON CITY If you had taken a poll of Yukoners early on Nov. 28, it seems unlikely anyone would have predicted that a local political event could shove the defeat of the federal government to the sidelines as far as the Yukon's media were concerned.

December 6, 2005

• Dan Davidson I'm a gonna see the high divin' act ....' DAWSON CITY 'By gar, the crittur went an' dun it.'

December 2, 2005

• Editorial If it's yes' today, how can it be no' tomorrow? It would indeed create competition, but the erection of a third hotel across from the Whitehorse airport wouldn't spell the instant nor gradual doom of the city's commercial core.
• Matthew Grant It's time for a democratic experiment It may strike many Canadians as a terrible waste of money that just 18 months after Paul Martin's Liberals took office as a minority government, Canadians are heading back to the polls to, according to nearly every polling agency in the country, elect yet another Liberal minority.

December 1, 2005

• Allan Fotheringham Boo-birds greeted Martin with glee VANCOUVERFootball and politics collide. It is all flash-and-dash, subterfuge, end-around and faking out the opponent. Not to mention some high-sticking and a few spears to the ribs of the weaker guy.

November 30, 2005

• Editorial A titan of a scorpion exits the bottle Premier Dennis Fentie may well be looking for applause for Monday's stunning departure of former minister Peter Jenkins from the cabinet. He deserves an audience that sits firmly on its hands.