Opinion

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Generally, we seem pretty confused about what money is good for. We assume that if we just had more of it, we would be happier. This week I was fascinated by a documentary on PBS entitled " Last Train Home" .

Wells Gray Provincial Park is one of British Columbia's - and Canada's - great wonders and it is rather surprising that more people do not take advantage of it.

Even after a decade or so, it is awe-inspiring to witness the heights of audacity to which the B.C. Liberals soar. Last Wednesday provided another suitably stratospheric example.

Previously, Caribou Joe learns how horse-legging is done in a bush operation at Tete Jaune Cache, and as he moves further up the hillside, discovers big footprints in the snow. In 1955 there was a Sasquatch sighting at Tte Jaune Cache.

In the previous episode, Caribou Joe awakes in a strange bed and the terrible smell of toe-rags that are hung up to dry by a stove. For the first few weeks of 1913 the snow fall left a two foot deep white blanket covering the Tte Jaune Cache area.

We get some silly photos on our wire service, and none was funnier than the chap in the Lower Mainland who tried to squash a full-sized fridge into the trunk of his Honda Accord.

It seems the NIMBYs around Haldi Road got the wind knocked out of their fight yesterday as proponents blew away the main concern over the women's recovery centre by announcing they'd truck in their own darn water.

If you're mad at the price you're paying at the pump, I have a solution for you. Buy a share or more of Husky Energy. Become a part owner and receive a five per cent dividend yield, which is much better than a savings account at the bank.

A former Prince George addict and dealer gave some insight into the city's drug world and the personality of the victim of a drug-related shooting death during testimony Monday in the first-degree murder trial of Jesse Norman Sweder.