Opinion

Re: Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and tankers to ship Alberta tarsands oil to China Some Stats: Proposed 36- and 20-inch pipelines,1,172 km in length. This crosses 1,000 streams, rivers including the Skeena and Fraser. The tankers are .

In the Fast Layne

Wednesday night's all-candidates forum was summed up by CKPG's Dave Barry this way: "the ladies were ladies and the gentlemen were boys." No truer words were spoken.

Normally on the Saturday before Mother's Day, this space would be filled with a loving, sentimental ode to mothers everywhere.

There's a tantalizing 10-page gap in the B.C. government's response to a freedom of information request.

Don't be fooled by the sunshine. Freezing temperatures and the risk of avalanche may be gone but that doesn't make the wilderness surrounding Prince George any less dangerous.

Our provincial government closed many schools. This has a real negative effect, especially in our rural communities. When you lose your school, property values fall, but not the school taxes.

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As a Chinese Canadian, I feel racially degraded when I watched the B.C. Liberal Party's Campaign Ad on Fairchild TV (a Chinese TV channel from Vancouver).