Editorial, Letters and Columns

Friday, July 4, 2008

Editorial

Shifting behaviour

People are starting to sell their SUVs. For cheap. And they aren’t buying new ones. In the US, SUV sales fell 25 per cent in the first months of this year. Since then, unofficial reports suggest sales...

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Letters to the Editor

The joke’s on us! I find it to be a big joke that the 10-member Yukon Minerals Advisory Board, funded by the Yukon Party government, is stacked mostly with mining executives based in Vancouver.

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Columns

Whimpering about a fuel tax while the world burns

We had another quarrel last night. I wanted to pick up a cellular modem for my computer so I could receive high-speed internet in the technological wasteland of South Salt Spring Island. Sharon got mad.

full story   by Brian Brett

Squandering freedom, one step at a time

This week, the Associated Press reports that Italy has begun fingerprinting tens of thousands of Roma living in semi-nomadic camps around the country. The Roma, also known as Gypsies, live in more than 700 makeshift...

full story   by Al Pope

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