Whitehorse Daily Star

January 27, 2005

• Gwynne Dyer Bush: U.S. owns the patent on democracy LONDON 'We have declared a fierce war on this evil principle of democracy,' said Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of of the organization that calls itself 'al-Qaeda in Iraq'.
• Allan Fotheringham PM's brain taken to 35,000 feet too often One of the movie hits of the season is Kinsey, the tale of the obscure American academic who became famous in our last century by supposedly alerting the North American continent to our sexuality.

January 26, 2005

• Editorial City's seniors are worth the $1.36 per day As it prepares to take on major-league recreational facilities with big-league operating costs, it was good to see city council reverse an earlier intention to nickel-and-dime our senior citizens.

January 21, 2005

• Editorial Local democracy is alive and well Who says apathy reigns?
• Dan Davidson Minister Hart: you are on the clock here DAWSON CITY I was astounded and almost impressed last week to hear that the Bush administration has given up the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

January 20, 2005

• Gwynne Dyer Let's attack Iran!' is the latest mantra LONDON Seymour Hersh's New Yorker article about American forces carrying out reconnaissance missions in Iran to locate hidden Iranian nuclear facilities, presumably in order to be able to destroy them all in a surprise attack, may be 'riddled with errors,' as the White House promptly alleged.
• Allan Fotheringham Successors are watching our wandering dummy It's been the given wisdom in Ottawa for some months now that the hired heavies around Paul Martin while being very good at stabbing Jean Chretien in the back (and the front) aren't very good at governing.

January 19, 2005

• Editorial Despite the apology, the damage will linger Surely, Tuesday's contrite apology from Economic Development Minister Jim Kenyon had the fingerprints of the Yukon Party caucus all over it.

January 14, 2005

• Editorial - A ton of questions, an ounce of answers Call him what you may, but never accuse Premier Dennis Fentie of lacking in the loyalty department.
• Allan FotheringhamQuagmire seems like 1962 all over again In what may have been explained in this space earlier, late in 1962, this scribbler was sitting in the rooftop bar of the Caravelle Hotel in Saigon.
• Flo Whyard Author recorded history the hard way News of the death in Yellowknife recently of Glenna Wright, a former Yukon nurse, wife and mother, stirred memories of her husband, the author of a memorable and readable Yukon history.