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February 25, 2016
- Gold鈥檚 weak performance has triggered disappointment For more than two years, it appears at long last that the major 鈥渃orrection鈥� in gold prices is just about over.
- We鈥檙e on the verge of committing insecticide ( Comment ) It was a typically anodyne statement by the World Health Organization: 鈥淕iven the magnitude of the Zika crisis, WHO encourages affected countries and their partners to boost the use of both old and new approaches to mosquito control.鈥�
February 24, 2016
- All Yukoners will suffer from YESAB鈥檚 inadequacies ( Comment ) Ed. note: this commentary was submitted by the Yukon Chamber of Mines.
February 22, 2016
- Petulance: the English way, under David Cameron ( Comment ) What would you call a country that called for 鈥渁 structure under which (Europe) can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom... a kind of United States of Europe鈥� at the end of the Second World War (Winston Churchill, 1946), but refused to join that structure when its European neighbours actually began building it (European Economic Community, 1957)?
February 19, 2016
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We all have a role in ending the crisis of violence ( Comment ) Last week,
- Fixing Dawson鈥檚 sewage plant could cost millions ( Uffish Thoughts ) The City of Dawson, its council, employees and citizens heaved a collective sigh of relief last week when a joint press release was issued in which the Yukon government agreed to 鈥渙wn and operate the new Dawson wastewater treatment plant on an ongoing basis.鈥�
- Did these gentlemen just witness the same event? ( Editorial ) Isn鈥檛 the degree of spin and super-cautious fact extraction that can be applied to the same event, an astounding, bemusing phenomenon to behold?
February 18, 2016
- Ignoring precedents could prove very hazardous Medical doctors, lawyers, and yes, even economists, base many of their judgments on precedents.
- The world price of oil will stay depressed 鈥淭he market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent,鈥� said John Maynard Keynes (or maybe it wasn鈥檛 him, but no matter).
February 12, 2016
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Honouring and preserving our heritage and culture ( Comment ) This past week, I was pleased to make two announcements in support of Yukon heritage and culture.
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A rotten pot 鈥� from soup to salamanders, or A to 惟 Today鈥檚 column is a potpourri or pot-pourri of words that interest me, and I hope you.
- It costs a bundle, but Whitehorse Transit is riding high ( Editorial ) Creative thinking and dedicated work have transformed Whitehorse Transit from an object of some frustration and derision into a service many have become glowingly positive about 鈥� and dependent on.