Opinion

I am writing re "What would Jesus do?", editorial April 25.

Well how very nice that the city council has appointed four people (doesn't mention what we are paying them) to a committee tasked with figuring out how much to pay the mayor and council.

Mr. Godbout argues in his May 1 Editorial "If not here, than elsewhere" - but where is the elsewhere? He seems to accept a version of economic determinism whereby all social and political change is determined by so-called laws of supply and demand.

So there we were, minding our own business, enjoying a summer afternoon and burning our Christmas tree when all of a sudden, the authorities arrive.

In a letter last week (Pipeline can't handle the stress, May 6, 2014) Chris Peter questions the safety of the Northern Gateway Pipeline as a result of an elevation drop. It's an important question and one I am more than happy to address.

On April 29 the provincial government unveiled its plan to re-engineer education and training in the province of British Columbia.

Everybody remembers their first. The first album you bought for yourself with money you worked for has a way of sticking with you, no matter how dated it may later sound. For me, that first album was The Offspring's Smash, released in 1994.

This is the second of two columns addressing what I see as the greatest threat to the B.C. environment in our lifetime. The Alberta oil industry's Northern Gateway plan is to export bitumen to Asia via tankers from the B.C. coast.

In case you missed the announcement, the Citizen is bringing Food Network star and cooking author Bob Blumer to Prince George during the BCNE in August.

I have been away for a few weeks blissfully traveling in London and Paris which has been a dream come true.