Consider this scenario if you will. On a warm summer weekend, you are lounging in the shade on your patio sipping on a lemonade, lulled by the calming rustle of leaves and the singsong of kids playing in the yard. Without warning, as if struck by lightning, your back stiffens as you sit upright with... »
Some business owners are ineligible to vote at city or town council elections because their principal residence is out of town. With support from various Chambers of Commerce a few of these people are now suggesting that because they pay municipal taxes and rates... »
The Yukon Chamber of Commerce would like to change the Yukon Municipal Act to allow voting at a municipal election for those that pay municipal taxes but happen to live outside the boundaries. What about other people in the satellite communities surrounding the municipality? Like... »
I find it difficult to abide cowardice, a characteristic that we all share to one degree or another. I hate it when on occasion it appears in myself and... »
I read with interest MLA Steve Nordick’s recent open letter to the public expressing his ‘personal’ view that Dawson should receive a brand new recreation complex. I think almost everyone... »
Belated congratulations to the 2009 Yukon Farmers of the Year, Grant Dowdell and Karen Digby. Recognition came at the annual North of 60º Agricultural Conference Banquet last November. They missed... »
