Opinion

As I was listening commentary on the Northern Gateway Pipeline and it struck me that an understanding of hydrocarbon chemistry might help with some of the debate. So, here is my attempt at Hydrocarbons 101.

In certain fields of work we've moved from 'pink' or 'blue' jobs to 'purple' jobs. Purple is what you get when you mix blue with pink, when the division between traditionally male and female positions fades.

To hear Christy Clark speak of the virtues of Jim Flaherty and how he was such a great Canadian for getting our country's budget balanced made me sick to my stomach. Don't get me wrong I am sad to hear of his death, in a humanitarian way.

So much for hindsight being 20/20.

MaryAnne Arcand, may she rest in peace, understood that workplace safety is more than program brought in by management and/or government to help prevent workers from getting injured.

I recently attended an amazing symposium, on genocide and the Holocaust. The high school students and their teachers in attendance were clearly inspired. You may be saying, "What a morbid topic.

There has been a lot of debate in the Citizen lately about whether or not adding fluoride to drinking water has positive or negative health effects.

Your April 3rd editorial on head injuries in the NHL and other sports failed to raise an awareness of the dangers to observers. I enjoy hockey and I annually follow the long competition that awards the Stanley Cup.

At around the same time that Enbridge began licking its wounds after losing a non-binding referendum in Kitimat on Saturday about the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, another group was stepping forward with their own suggestion to move crude from

I happened to see an interview on CKPG TV last week that really caught my interest.