Whitehorse Daily Star: Opinions Archive

Opinions Archive

A siren call to personal responsibility (Editorial) COVID-19 rates spiking in parts of B.C., Alberta and the U.S., doggedly challenging territorial leaders’ assurances that the risk of importation is trifling.

All along the dike trails in Dawson City (Uffish Thoughts) The lower dike trail is passable again, thanks to several days of effort by a crew from Yukon Wildland Fire Management.
Farewell to a quintessential Jack of all trades (Editorial) Given the lengthy, impressively varied life of Jack Cable,

Let’s skip this round of election speculation (Uffish Thoughts) Well, the writ has been dropped in Nova Scotia, with yet another minority government seeking to achieve a stable majority, hoping to achieve the result the NDP in British Columbia did when it pulled the plug.

Climate change deniers lose out to reality (Comment) First this month’s “heat dome”, with temperatures in the mid-to-high 40s Celsius in many parts of western North America for up to a week (49.6° C in Lytton, B.C.).
Another summer of our discontent in Dawson (Uffish Thoughts) We are now in the second summer of our discontent – to borrow and adapt a phrase from the Bard of Avon.
Confronting the woe of pedestrians as bowling pins (Editorial) Thankfully, the woman crossing Second Avenue at Strickland Street alertly paused in the middle of the crosswalk.

‘Foreigners came to kill the president’ (Comment) The presidential dogs were still alive – which meant that something was very wrong with the official explanation of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse last Wednesday.

A summer where all three curses have combined (Comment) Ed. note: this column was written late last week, shortly before the Southern Lakes exceeded their 2007 flood levels. Pestilence. Floods. Fire.

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