Whitehorse Daily Star: Letters Archive

Letters Archive

Please come and sign the petition! My name is Bev Regier, and I have started a petition to increase Pharmacare coverage.
Have all your services evaporated? Ed. note: this is a letter to Marco Mendicino, the federal minister of Public Safety, Yukon MP Brendan Hanley and RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki.
Where is the needed accountability? Pope Francis has told a Canadian audience that he was sorry for how historical wrongs were done to Aboriginal peoples.

Media should have seen the lights Re: the Yukon winners of this year’s Celebration of Light fireworks competition in Vancouver.
Yukoners have outdone themselves! I want to take this opportunity to thank the donors, the buyers, and most especially my teams for making this year’s Royal Canadian Legion sales successful.
Come help us stand against discrimination Jewish Canadians are 10 times more likely than members of any other religious community to be the target of a hate crime.

‘We dishonoured her memory and failed her family’ Ed. note: this is the text of the formal apology delivered Friday to the family of Tootsie Jimmy-Charlie by Chief Supt. Scott Sheppard, commanding officer of the Yukon RCMP.

The majority’s safety is rightly paramount The use of trigger warnings has its place, on the news before a car accident report or with cultural concerns, but surely not with food menus.
I’m eternally grateful for the shelter I must respond to the July 20 article in the Star about problems around the Whitehorse Emergency Shelter.

COVID can strike anyone! The world’s most powerful person caught COVID – what does that mean for the world?
How will this foil criminal intentions, Sir? Ed. note: this is a letter to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, copied to Yukon MP Brendan Hanley and Manitoba Conservative MP Raquel Dancho. It was also published in the August edition of Canadian Access to Firearms.
Let’s take the politics out of the public needs Yukoners’ future needs must be addressed in a fundamental way by the public service.

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