Opinion

Education professionals love to talk, even at this time of year as the school year wraps up, about how they develop young people to be contributing citizens to society. It sounds noble but it's not true. Teachers and professors teach subjects.

I was recently visiting Prince George when I heard news that the Pine Valley Golf Course was upheld by a vote of the city council. I commend the efforts of the Friends of Pine Valley in saving this valuable green space.

It's only money

As I read this article and comments below, it saddens me to think that this is the response when we look to systems that would support children and families in our communities.

Less than six months after the last time this issue was brought up, Coun. Brian Skakun is back poring over the list of city vendors who supply more than $25,000 of goods and services to the city each year.

Dental hygiene students A. Amies and H. Gray wrote in a recent Special to The Citizen that fluoridation of the city's water supply should be continued. They cited the usual arguments in favour.

The headline in Monday's editorial, June 3 reads "Heads they lose, tails they lose", dealing with the surprise announcement by Christy Clark's newly elected government that they now are against the Gateway pipeline project.

Tonight, Associated Press reporter Micahel Graczyk goes to work in Huntsville, Texas. Reporters bear witness to history but what Graczyk has witnessed is not for the faint of heart.

French revolution, American independence, end of apartheid in South Africa, segregation in the southern U.S., possibly 1,000 dead during the Jallianwala Bagh massacre when India was under British Rule (British claim 379).

The problem with emergencies is that they're so far outside of our regular experience that we have little or no knowledge of what to do and how to react.