Opinion

An open letter to returning high school students. It's that time of year again.

David Black has conjured up a fantasy project involving a refinery in Kitimat which would bless our province with many thousands of construction and then permanent jobs.

Thank you to Arlene at Costco. I withdrew $100 from the ATM at Costco then walked away without retrieving my money. When I realized what I had done later that evening, I called Costco to see if, by chance, someone found my money and turned it in.

Revelatory 'news' stories about the danger dust poses to saw mills puzzle me.

Winning was wonderful for the Prince George Westcana Electric Axemen but the entire city won at the RE/MAX Centre City Baseball Canada Senior Championship.

American lunatics will be hogging your TV screen next week. For political watchers, the good times are back with the opening of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, starting Monday.

Two notes of music is all it took. F and F sharp. That's how the audiences of Jaws learn something really bad was about to happen.

Good luck to all our local seniors headed to Burnaby to compete in the BC Senior Games. The Games are being held from Tuesday, August 21 to Saturday, August 25.

Why can't people take a joke? Why can't people take Christy Clark? I don't mean to suggest that our premier is not to be taken seriously. Some folks take her so seriously they want her to resign and go back to mothering her Hamish again.

MP Dick Harris has come out in favour of the Gateway project proposed by Enbridge. At this time I cannot support this project for the following reasons: -- the pipeline as it nears the Pacific Ocean must cross some very sensitive terrain.