Opinion

The story of Matt Marotta has touched the nerve of so many this week across the province. Marotta plays for the Viking Construction Tier 1 peewee Cougars, a hockey team of 11 and 12-year-old boys.

Have you been watching the Olympics? Were you annoyed like a lot of other people with the Canadians losing the gold in the ice dance competition? Do you look at the half pipe and think the judges are nuts when they award certain points to one competi

When a government announces that it is going to launch an “anti-terror operation,” that generally means that it has decided to kill some people.

By the time this is published, the 2014 Winter Olympics will only have a couple of days of competition left. Every few years, the Olympics are a testimony to tenacity and triumph. They celebrate the limits of human capability.

This is an edited version of a column I wrote that ran in The Citizen on Feb. 20, 2004. Today is my birthday.

Ever since I was a child, I could never understand how badly we treated our water ways. We cover up and dump all our waste into these systems. We all think this is okay with no ramifications.

Jason Kenney has urgent business to conduct with Shirley Bond but he came to Prince George on a week when she's rather busy in Victoria.

I haven't been watching the Olympics much this year. Too be fair, I don't usually, outside of the major hockey games and some figure skating and snowboarding events. The 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver were a different story.

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Grams and Gramps Haylee, arrived at the arena and noticed the almost over game between Nanaimo and Prince George was tied in its fifth period.