Category: Communities – Yukon

Yukon politics – friends helping friends

You probably think that the title of this post is a tongue-in-cheek comment – politicians, after all, are about as loved as used-car salesmen. I’ve just spent a weekend at a Mayors and Councillors training workshop at Haines Junction, though, and have now seen municipal politicians, their support staff...
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Labour shortages & shopping online

I’ve gotten waaaay behind in my reading lately due to politics, house renovations, Web site building and a seemingless endless list of other stuff going on. Catching up, I see that the October 13th issue of How’s Business Yukon focussed on the current labour shortage in Whitehorse. Of the...
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I never thought I’d see this headline

It’s been a very long time since I thought of myself as being naive, but this headline in Friday’s Star threw me. A semi-automatic gun being fired on Main Street? What in hell is going on here? Just as important, where in hell are the cops? They KNOW who...
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