Whitehorse Daily Star: Opinions Archive

Opinions Archive

Has the COVID-19 virus put the world on tenterhooks? Is anyone in Canada still unaware of the coronavirus that originated in the wet markets of Wuhan, China in December?
Biodiversity and adaptation are going viral (Comment) There was something of a cruel irony in the scheduling of this year’s annual Biodiversity Forum at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre.
Time to examine all the fuss about time (Uffish Thoughts) We’ve been talking about getting rid of the biannual ritual of resetting our clocks in the spring and fall for years,
YG should start taking this crisis seriously (Comment) Ed. note: the official Opposition Yukon Party released this statement Thursday.

Apprehensive Canadians urgently need leadership (Comment) John F. Kennedy once said, “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
Give us your money and accept our secrecy (Editorial) How much information are Yukoners entitled to about the fate of a near $40-million lawsuit filed on their behalf by their government?

From an old friend: memories of Maurice Byblow (Comment) Ed. note: Maurice Byblow, a businessman in Faro and Whitehorse and a former NDP cabinet minister, died Feb. 11 at the age of 73.

City OKs green light for YTG lunchtime rush Ed. note: this article is the second in an illustrated series on events the writer recalls or has heard of. The first appeared last Friday.
Let us hope COVID-19 vanishes quickly Lately there are so many things happening in the world that time and space constraints make it impossible to comment on all of them, no matter how interesting they are.
On a clear day, you can see the brake lights forever (editorial) If your snow-crowned cup runneth over with patience, your place is Mountainview Drive/Copper/Quartz Roads or Lewes Boulevard during the weekday morning “rush minutes”.

Julian Assange is contemplating 175 years in jail Daniel Ellberg stole and published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies that the U.S. government was telling the American public about the Vietnam war.

Tricky Mickey, a valuable lesson learned Just after World War Two, my father was still away in the Royal Canadian Airforce.
Mourning a minister and master of many vocations (editorial) Maurice Byblow, the late NDP cabinet minister, was unwittingly pushed into the driver’s seat of one of the most populist-flavoured controversies the territory has witnessed in the last generation.

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