Whitehorse Daily Star: Letters Archive

Letters Archive

Media efforts to canonize Zelenskyy go awry “He ain’t no saint.”
Before the bear hunting season begins.... The history of grizzlies in North America is a sad story of demise – and climate change will not help.

Take the road to reality, Sir Dear citizen Gerald Hooper:
Dutch events are sowing the seeds for Canada On July 23, Canadian farmers will be convoying and demonstrating in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario in support of Dutch farmers.
We were kept on the periphery of the planning Ed. note: this is an open letter to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Informed decision-making requires facts Ed. note: this Whitehorse writer has requested anonymity as a former member of the health care profession who retired due to COVID-19 and who does not necessarily wish family members to be associated with the views expressed here.
In praise of PM Trudeau’s turbine decision As reported in the Star of July 18 (p. 8), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in a refreshing act of statesmanship, responded to a telephone request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to block shipment of repaired Siemen’s Corp. turbines to Germany (where said turbines would serve to facilitate import of Russian natural gas) by refusing the Ukrainian president’s request and authorizing the shipment.

Yukoners need a solution to the Xplornet problem, ministers Ed. note: this is a letter to François-Philippe Champagne, the federal minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, and Gudie Hutchings, the federal minister of Rural Economic Development.
Polio virus doesn’t respect boundaries No matter the political party you associate with or the country you live in, the polio virus doesn’t respect political or geographical boundaries.

Road is an embarrassment to Canada There appeared to be an extremely serious accident on the Alaska Highway between Burwash and Beaver Creek border control (Star, July 15).
COVID: YG is responding like an ostrich Re. last Wednesday’s update on the COVID situation by the Government of the Yukon (Star, July 15).

Yukoners’ firewood access problems may persist Ed. note: this is a letter to Energy, Mines and Resources Minister John Streicker.
Supreme Court ruling humiliated abortionists The rich as well as the super-rich sponsors of the billion-dollar North American abortion lobby lost incalculably on their investments when they suffered a veritable legitimacy collapse in the wake of the overruling of the Roe vs. Wade decision in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision of June 24, 2022.
Change is in the wind Boris Johnson was never a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” and he wasn’t merely a clown, as Vladimir Putin and his Animal Farm gang have recently described him.
I expect a more reasoned and nuanced response I logged onto the Yukon government’s Facebook page on Wednesday afternoon to hear what the new chief medical officer of health (CMOH) had to say about the pandemic.

Does YG want families to vacate city’s core? “A community without a school is a dying community.”

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