Opinion

Yesterday, I was involved in the Raise-A-Reader campaign at the university. I met some incredibly generous individuals that were willing to donate to literacy programs in Prince George.

When you're as smart as Mireille Rizkalla, people and organizations line up to give you money.

As we approach the season of the pretty white stuff, a topical visit to the potential tax hangovers of an extended visit to southern warmth is a good idea.

Chaos and carnage are synonymous with NASCAR racing, but sometimes predicting how things will play out in the notoriously volatile sport is surprisingly easy.

"With great knowledge comes great responsibly." I'm not exact sure who spoke those first words but they ring true in all facets of our lives.

The picture painted by Statistics Canada's 2011 census and the new national household survey -- a second-rate stand-in for the former mandatory long-form questionnaire axed by the Harper government -- is clear, to a degree.

It's 6 o'clock on a Sunday morning and I am suddenly awoken by a murder of crows on the roof of my deck (right outside my bedroom window), more crows in the driveway and even more on the roof of the house.

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks blends fact with fiction in her heartbreaking novel about Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard University in 1665 at the age of

Saying goodbye to a loved one who has passed away is the most difficult thing to do in life. Grieving families often choose something very special and meaningful to be left at the gravesite, in honour of that person.

It was already looking likely that President Bashar al-Assad's regime would survive - it has had the upper hand militarily in the Syrian civil war for at least six months now - but the events of the past two weeks have made it virtually certain.