Category: Politics

Sternwheeler getting some Yukoners steamed

A well designed and executed logo should say a lot about a community, and residents have every right to take it personally. The design that was chosen to “re-brand” Whitehorse recently has a lot of people upset, both because it’s a very poor design (in my opinion), and because...
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Will Sarah Palin be welcomed back to Alaska?

When Palin loses her race for US Vice-President in a few days, will she be welcomed home? A few weeks ago it looked like she would be – a lot of folks back home were pretty pleased by all the attention the state was getting. To say that the...
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If the world could vote…

A very interesting poll at iftheworldcouldvote.com shows who “the world” thinks would make the best US President. As of a minute ago, Barack Obama has received the thumbs up from 87.1% of the people who voted – that’s 378,484 votes for Obama. I think McCain is one scary s.o.b....
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The upcoming election in the Yukon

I post more about the US election than I do the one that’s coming up in Canada on October 14, simply out of amazement that Sarah Palin is still on the ticket in the States. In the Yukon, though, we have a situation that looks somewhat similar – in...
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Trains & the American election

Being a railfan, I love this analogy… Speaking of train wrecks, at BustedTees.com I found a t-shirt for the poor kid who Sarah is claiming as her future son-in-law:...
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Foreign relations, Sarah Palin style

Here’s a photo I took at the Trans Alaska Pipeline interpretive centre in Fairbanks in July 2006 when Palin was running for Governor. The slogan “Canada my ass, it’s Alaska’s Gas!” was used by the Alaskan Independence Party, which she supported. Doesn’t that give you a warm fuzzy feeling...
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October 14th election? – think “96”

This morning’s news indicates that Canadians will be going to the polls on October 14th. This will be a very easy voting choice for me this time – 96 is the number of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Steven Harper is responsible for each of those deaths,...
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Alaska’s Governor will cost McCain the election

That’s the forecast I started making a couple of days ago after seeing the comments made at the Anchorage Daily News site in response to the news that Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, and I’m sticking with it. This article (no longer online) shows that a whole lot...
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Meeting, wandering & shooting

On Friday, the Association of Yukon Communities held their quarterly directors’ meeting in Mayo, way up in the central Yukon. Now you might think “how boring!” but it’s actually not – there is a lot going on and a lot of work being done to make life in the...
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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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