Whitehorse Daily Star

April 16, 2021

• Money should flow with the child I like Currie Dixon’s observation that a plan is only universal if every child benefits, and that a daycare plan excludes those not in daycare, so is not universal.
• ‘Going’ with the Liberals to what destination? Ed. note: these letters were received after the Star’s April 8 deadline for election-related submissions.
• Farmers are enduring an intolerable situation I have been made aware of a situation involving the questionable treatment of key citizens of Yukon by wildlife management officials within the Department of Environment.

April 9, 2021

• In appreciation to the hospital staff I would like to express my deepest, most heartfelt appreciation to Doctors Averill, Flath and Biss, along with all the nurses, technicians, kitchen workers and cleaners who helped maintain my health over the past couple of weeks at our Whitehorse General Hospital.
• Yukon education’s downfall is a serious issue No matter your political background, I think we can all agree that emotionally strong and healthy youth are a cornerstone in any community.
• I’m reviewing why ID is really garbage I found out March 31 I won’t be getting a voter card for the April 12 election.
• Investors have been taken for a ride Re: ATAC road decision.
• This election will determine Yukon’s future Only three days remain before the territorial election, but the kind of future you want for the Yukon and its people for years to come will be based on this election.
• About that pro-mining statement .... Re. the letter of March 26 about the mining industry being good for all.
• A ‘rent freeze’ is a failed economic model The Yukon Residential Landlord Association (YRLA) would like to encourage all landlords to challenge recent platform suggestions proposed for the 2021 territorial election.
• We’re working hard to reopen My name is Scott McCarthy, and I am the owner-operator of Riverdale Super A. My family and I have operated this store since Aug. 25, 2007.
• A plant paves the way for fracking Last week, Currie Dixon announced that a Yukon Party government would begin construction on a second LNG electrical generation plant immediately after forming a new government.
• Will you fund our vital cause? On Dec. 10, 2020, the Yukon Advisory Council on MMIWG2S+ unveiled Changing the Story to Upholding Dignity and Justice: Yukon’s Strategy on MMIWG2S+ people.
• YP is offering fossilized thinking How does the Yukon Party’s plan to build a new, permanent LNG thermal plant reduce our dependence on fossil fuels?

April 7, 2021

• Editor’s note In the spirit of fairness, the Star will not publish letters discussing the territorial election in our Monday, April 12th edition.
• Rent controls do nothing to help tenants I can’t believe the idiotic statement I just read in the Whitehorse Star.
• Pushing out one group for another is wrong As a private business owner and taxpayer, I am very concerned about the lack of consultation surrounding the Yukon government’s First Nation procurement policy.
• I know how I’m casting my ballot What government the territory elects this time around will determine the environmental future of the Yukon, its boreal forests, its water and its clean air.
• And you wonder about high housing prices? It seems like a lot of people have awakened the politicians – finally – on housing in the Yukon.

April 5, 2021

• Let’s pursue a made-in-the Yukon solution I was for a long time quiet, mainly for health reasons, but now we are before an election,

April 1, 2021

• How about a paleontology centre for Dawson? Our territory’s capital city boasts a variety of excellent facilities created to support the arts, culture, and heritage.
• Are we seeing a time when democracy ends? Within the first few months after COVID was declared “official” in the Yukon and Canada, three thoughts occupied my mind with a lot of intensity:
• Please avoid sending another upsetting notification Ed. note: this is a letter to Stephen Samis, the deputy minister of the Department of Health and Social Services.
• How would you assist the start-up ecosystem? To: the parties hoping to form the next government of Yukon.
• Elections don’t mix with baseball and songbirds Well, at least this ill-timed 2021 spring territorial election isn’t a contest between “a butcher, a baker and a candlestick-maker” like a long-forgotten childhood nursery rhyme, but it’s close.
• Here are thanks, but no vote for the Liberals Ed. note: this is a letter to Premier Sandy Silver.
• Two parties endorse wild west-style mining Responses to a survey sent out by Yukoners Concerned show the Yukon NDP with the strongest overall platform for the environment.

March 29, 2021

• Closing this transfer station makes no sense During the election in 2016, one of the Yukon Liberal Party’s promises was to support Yukoners no matter where they live.
• The toll of underestimation Here’s a quote from the late American writer/actor Robert Benchley: “It took me 15 years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
• A permanent collapse of oil prices looms April 2, 2020 marked a milestone in North American energy industries in general and the petroleum industry in particular.