http://yukon-news.com/ The latest columns and editorials from the Yukon News of Whitehorse Yukon. en-ca webadmin@yukon-news.com (Website Feedback) Copyright 2012 Yukon News All Rights Reserved Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:42 GMT http://yukon-news.com/layout/header/logo_sml.gif http://yukon-news.com/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/editorial/26981/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/editorial/26981/#When:21:10:12Z Yukoners will gather this weekend to mourn the tragic death of five people who didn’t have to die. Although their cause of death has yet to be confirmed, all signs point to the silent killer: carbon monoxide poisoning. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:10:12 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26918/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26918/#When:09:00:42Z Hollie Smith, formerly of Carcross, Yukon, and now of Surrey, B.C., sent in some great stories of Polly the parrot, who used to dwell in the dining room of the Caribou Hotel. The Colourful Five Per Cent Scrapbook Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:42 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26938/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26938/#When:09:00:26Z Probably more than a few journalists had to make a quick visit to Wikipedia after Prime Minister Harper announced his plans to celebrate this year’s bicentenary of the War of 1812. It is a conflict that has languished in obscurity almost since it ended. Yukonomics Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:26 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/editorial/26916/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/editorial/26916/#When:09:00:07Z Calgary-based WestJet Airlines dropped a news bomb on the Yukon this week. After years of tire-kicking, it’s finally decided to plunge into the Whitehorse market. With both feet. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:07 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26939/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26939/#When:08:59:59Z The wolves are out to get you. I know, it surprised me too, but that’s the premise of The Grey, coming to movie theatres all over North America. A plane crashes in the frozen North, and the survivors battle the forbidding elements - and wolves. Roughing It Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:59:59 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26852/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26852/#When:09:00:57Z While doing some research recently, I came across some articles in the Dawson Daily News for September 24 1909. They were a call for the erection of a statue in honour of Leroy Napoleon “Jack” McQuesten, who had just died in San Francisco on September . History Hunter Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:57 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26842/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26842/#When:09:00:42Z Eight armed men pull four unarmed teenagers and a taxi driver out of a cab and shoot them at point-blank range. They go on to kick down the doors of three houses, and slaughter 19 people in their nightclothes, including children as young as three. Nordicity Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:42 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26847/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26847/#When:09:00:25Z A week ago Monday, the United States ordered a pullout of its 158 Peace Corps volunteers from Honduras. Surging violence there may have been the cause for this move. Just Society Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:25 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26837/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26837/#When:09:00:14Z A little over a week ago, I went through one of my periodic episodes of local media exposure in the papers and on radio. Tech@work Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:14 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/editorial/26855/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/editorial/26855/#When:09:00:02Z It turns out the much-vaunted Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board is stretched to the max and the projects just keep on coming. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:02 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26799/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26799/#When:09:00:36Z We burned a lot of diesel last week, despite some big power outages. It wasn’t even that cold. Nowhere near Whitehorse’s record low of 61. Yukonomics Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:36 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26830/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26830/#When:09:00:24Z How I wish there were a cookbook for the ingredientially challenged. It’s that time of the year again: our coolers yawn emptily, save for the last forlorn piece of herbed goat cheese huddled in one corner. Roughing It Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:24 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/editorial/26810/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/editorial/26810/#When:09:00:19Z It promised to be more than a photo op. This week’s Crown-First Nation Gathering between the federal government and the country’s chiefs was billed as a meeting of historic significance. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:19 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26811/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26811/#When:09:00:11Z This photograph of a beautiful little engine was taken by one of my favourite Yukon photographers, Frank Wolfe, who, I believe, was a short-time resident of Dawson City. Wolfe took most of his photographs around 1913 and 1914. The Colourful Five Per Cent Scrapbook Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:11 GMT http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26754/ http://yukon-news.com/opinions/columns/26754/#When:09:00:55Z 2012 has been a bumpy year so far, and my mind hasn’t been on the technology game at all.  So I had to ask my eight-year-old son, Cole, for a column idea this week. “Tell everybody about how much I like LEGO,” he says. Geek Life Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:00:55 GMT