Opinion

For the second year in a row, we’re unable to physically gather during Advent, a time of contemplation leading up to Christmas.

The mosaics illustrate our local history - Simon Fraser arriving in the early 1800s, the gold miners of 1860, the BX sternwheeler in 1913, the Grand trunk railway in 1914 and the Catholic missions in 1840.

In Prince George, part of a solution is already underway. 

These are weather events which the models predict will occur with increasing frequency because of the changes in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Basically, when people and other critters see everyone else urgently doing something, they start doing it too, without knowing why, rather than take the risk of being left behind.

Thus far, British Columbia is the only Canadian province to have officially adopted UNDRIP, but the Trudeau government has done little more than give lip service to the declaration.

During the freezing rain event how many drivers blamed the city and YRB instead of wondering if it was their driving that caused the accident.

What the holdout citizens are affecting now is not COVID, but citizens who have taken the risk of a vaccine so that our fellow citizens can have surgeries, transplants, and life changing procedures for their future quality of life.