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Apology not enough

Apology not enough

An online poll on our website is hardly scientific but it does capture a snapshot of the community's feelings on an issue. In the case of Coun. Cameron Stolz, 883 visitors to The Citizen's website have made their feelings known loud and clear.
What a showpiece station?

What a showpiece station?

Has nobody else commented on the edifice that is being built with our tax money. This does not look like any police station I have seen, it looks like an art gallery or a museum.
B.C., Alberta seek truce on oil exports

B.C., Alberta seek truce on oil exports

In the Fast Leyne
Recognition needed for health care assistants

Recognition needed for health care assistants

Today is Health Care Assistant Day. First proclaimed by the provincial government in 2011, it's a time to recognize the skill and commitment B.C.'s care aides and community health workers bring to health care's front lines.
Speed still kills on highways

Speed still kills on highways

I am bewildered on what would motivate Transportation Minister Todd Stone to put up this erroneous claim that "research around the world suggest drivers who don't keep up with the flow of traffic, not speeders, cause accidents...
Oil will flow

Oil will flow

What good can possibly come out the tragedy in Lac Megantic, where freight train cars rolled into the small Quebec town and derailed, causing a massive explosion and fire that destroyed half the community's downtown and killed more than 40 people? Pl
Making science better through computers

Making science better through computers

Relativity
Tuning us in

Tuning us in

All of the handwringing over the lack of civic engagement in the important issues of the day blames the public for preferring to stay home and watch TV, play video games and chat on Facebook.
Impatient for justice

Impatient for justice

Surprise of the week: the club of African presidents (aka the African Union) has held a special meeting and declared that African presidents should be immune from prosecution for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes while they are in offi
Joan Nachbaur a Travesty

Joan Nachbaur a Travesty

Joan' dismissal is a terrible mistreatment of a dedicated professional. To fire someone on such a flimsy technical/academic basis ignores all logic.