Opinion

There were lots of interesting topics to write about this week but I feel somewhat obligated to explain what Justin Trudeau did on Wednesday afternoon.

BC Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett has been to Ottawa twice in the last two months lobbying for New Prosperity Mine proposed by Taseko Mines Ltd of Vancouver.

The last snow clearing effort by the city during the huge snowfall, rain, freeze, snow, etc; leaves a lot to be desired, and brings up a number of issues that need to be looked into.

The blessing and the curse that is the Internet is its power to deliver information. Information is brain food and like food, there is the good and the bad. The most helpful and the most dangerous information floating around the web is about health.

Its about time the government improved winter maintenance on 16 and 97. The extra cost could be $3 million. Peanuts. How much did it cost for the 13 lives taken on Highway 16.

In road transport, a yield or give way traffic sign indicates that each driver must prepare to stop if necessary to let a driver on another approach proceed. A driver who stops has yielded the right of way to another.

I would like to throw out a bouquet to BK Two Way Radio on 15th Ave., especially to their mobile phone guru Kyle. I have a Samsung phone, which I depend on for my work, and like anything technology related, it sometimes develops a mind of its own.

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