Whitehorse Daily Star: Opinions Archive

Opinions Archive

Despite COVID-19, we accomplished much As we get ready to say goodbye to 2020, here is a review of the last year from the Office of the Commissioner of Yukon.
Age-friendly communities under COVID (Comment) Over the last year, the Yukon has taken a lot of concrete steps to support and provide services that better address the needs of people of all ages:

It’s time for the showering of presents and coal (Comment) The Jolly Old Elf might have a conundrum on his hands as he mulls over appropriate gifts for some of the denizens of the legislature this year.

Christmas nostalgia: the memories are golden This Christmas is like none other that I know of, and at 85 years old, I’ve seen many.
Minerals have helped create your lifestyle (Comment) In a recent opinion piece in a Yukon newspaper, the former chair of a Yukon Land Use Planning Commission stated, “The Yukon government would do well to sincerely ask whether any mine — or for that matter, the mining sector — actually benefits the Yukon and serves our long-term interests.”
COVID took from us, but also taught us what we are truly made of Who would have thought we would find ourselves living in a time when having safe sex meant wearing a mask instead of a condom?
Milestone or not, tremendous tasks remain (Editorial) On Dec. 10, the Yukon government’s formal response to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-spirit + crisis was publicly released in a landmark ceremony.

‘Its’ and ‘whom’ are dying. So are ‘lie’ and ‘led’ Language changes constantly.
Donnie: kindness, compassion and carpentry Oak and birch are two of the most-loved trees in the world, and for good reason.
I’ve definitely got some time on my hands (Uffish Thoughts) I haven’t quite made up my mind about this experiment we’re running with Yukon Permanent Time – officially explained as being “seven hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC -7),” according to the government press releases.
The decades pass, the question remains a constant (Comment) A while ago – when Pierre Trudeau and Jimmy Carter ruled vast tracts of North America, actually – I was living in west Quebec, steeped in journalism and political science studies at Carleton University.

We’ll pay the price for ‘dithering’ on COVID-19 Is it time the government changed its COVID-19 strategy in B.C.?
Message to YG: stop being a control freak (Comment) These are strange times we live in indeed... especially when it comes to the Yukon Government and its policies.
Dutifully responding to the mask mandate (Uffish Thoughts) The entire congregation at St. Paul’s wore masks in our carefully spaced out Richard Martin Memorial Chapel last Sunday morning.
The road isn’t stillborn; his worship says he’s sorry (Editorial) When a major mining corporation executive makes statements as blunt as this one, the Yukon government has a serious, unsettling problem on its hands.

Users warned to be careful on the ice trail (Uffish Thoughts) Although people have been crossing the Yukon River at Dawson since three days after the ice stopped moving on Nov. 1, there is no official crossing at this writing.
Nothing could mask this policy’s inevitability (Editorial) “If these folks had been in charge of safe sex instead of the safe six, we’d be looking at a baby boom next spring.”

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