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August 6, 2021
- 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鈥� assurances that the risk of importation is trifling.
July 30, 2021
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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,
July 23, 2021
- Let鈥檚 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.
July 16, 2021
- Climate change deniers lose out to reality (Comment) First this month鈥檚 鈥渉eat dome鈥�, 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.).
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Another summer of our discontent in Dawson (Uffish Thoughts) We are now in the second summer of our discontent 鈥� 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.
July 14, 2021
- 鈥楩oreigners came to kill the president鈥� (Comment) The presidential dogs were still alive 鈥� which meant that something was very wrong with the official explanation of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse last Wednesday.
July 9, 2021
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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.