Opinion

We know in business that strategic advantage can make the difference between success and failure. Identifying the one thing about your company that no one else does as well as you do is what will attract customers, if it is marketed effectively.

None of the schools that I attended as a youth featured science fairs. I don't know if this was true of all the schools in Vancouver, but I certainly don't remember hearing about any science fairs when I was young. Science fairs are a big thing now.

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Todd Whitcombe's article published in the Citizen on Feb. 21 reeks of academic elitism. It is generally fallacious and extremely annoying.

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Finally someone has to open up on the Enbridge's latest unbelievable ad. First of all I am a Level A welder registered with the Dept. of Labour with the B.C. Gov't. I hold an endorsed pressure ticket No. 7 Pulse A Tig (NO.10).

Anyone who has ever bartended at, served at or simply been a regular at a bar can relate to at least one verse from Billy Joel's 1973 single Piano Man. Joel paints a word picture that many of us are able to envision with very little coaxing.

The sad and anticlimatic end to the marathon city council meeting Monday finally came early Tuesday morning, when mayor and council voted 8-1 in favour of the Northern Recovery Centre for Women to set up shop at the former Haldi Road elementary.

Every now and then The Citizen publishes a letter from some disgruntled correspondent decrying an individually-suffered transgression whether it be a miscreant cyclist allegedly hogging the road (to which, of course, all P.G.

Last week's announcement by China's Ministry of Finance that the country will introduce a carbon tax, probably in the next two years, did not dominate the international headlines.