Opinion

An assassination attempt was made on the elected leader of a Canadian province Tuesday night. Normally, this would have warranted front-page news in every daily newspaper in the country and would have been the top item in every newscast.

On Aug.23, the Citizen carried an editorial signed by Managing Editor Neil Godbout, criticizing the Haldi Road residents and their stand on the now defunct Haldi Drug and Alcohol Recovery Centre proposal.

I have a suggestion for the Lakeland Mill funds. How about setting it up as a scholarship fund? That would be an investment in the future, stop fighting over how the money should be distributed and who should get what.

I read with interest the article in the Citizen dated Aug 30, 2012, stating that an accounting firm was paid $350,000 for work, I believe, studying city financial matters.

Rock Hudson in 1985, Eazy-E in 1995, Liberace in 1987 and Freddy Mercury in 1991 - all celebrities that were in the early wave of the AIDS epidemic. Decades later, and there is still no cure.

Chris Hedges wrote a book 10 years ago called War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning about how Americans weren't happy unless they were fighting something or someone.

So far, the defining moment in 21st-century trash TV may be the banishment of Glitzy the pig. For those unaware, Glitzy was Honey Boo Boo's pet.

The rumours about Christy Clark's imminent political death have been -- and continue to be --greatly exaggerated. Clark became leader of the B.C. Liberal Party and then premier last year with the support of just one of the 47 member Liberal caucus.

On Saturday, I was riding my bike along Third Avenue and stopped at Carney to cross at the crosswalk. A motorist stopped and was waiting for me to proceed. A truck was coming from the other direction and the motorist honked.

I was astounded to see a photo in the P. G.