Letters & Opinions/Yukonomist

Last week, Part 1 of this column looked at the past and present of Yukon mining as well as two game changers that could be powerful tailwinds for the Yukon’s biggest private-sector industry: geopolitics and climate change.

The Yukon government has announced it will follow the federal government’s lead in declaring the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30 a statutory holiday. This is a welcome addition to our official holidays since it publicly recognizes the importance of reconciliation for Yukoners.

It could have been a scene out of a 1940s movie: the tongue-tied young airman goes on a double date and falls head over heels for the prairie girl.

It’s the kind of thing you might see in a society that suffered a major war twenty years ago

You’re going to have to do a better job sorting your junk or else China won’t take it

A Long-Run Version of the Bank of Canada Commodity Price Index is as hot a title as it sounds

We’ll find out in the spring

Would it have worked here? Looks like we’ll never know

There are very different rules for resource projects depending on which side of the border you’re on

This column has everything: actuaries, unfunded liabilities, C.D Howe Institute reports….