Opinion

Looking around my school this year, I notice that there are fewer students. There are also fewer disciplinary issues and it has become even more difficult to establish and maintain contact with our at-risk students and their families.

Road construction season is once again upon us and along with it comes delays, detours and frustrations. Most drivers like to think of themselves as good drivers but that, in my not so humble opinion, is a load of bumpkus.

How do we change our economy to be more environmentally friendly? What do we need to do to mitigate our greenhouse gas emissions and climate impact? I respectfully suggest the first thing we need to do is recognize the problem.

Old Colony Mennonites are the kind of Mennonites where, by religious conviction, the men dress in blue-collar clothes, and the women in kerchief head-coverings and long dresses. This makes the women members of a visible religious minority.

British Columbia’s last budget feels like something from a distant, pre-pandemic past. Now the province’s throne speech gives a little glance into the future budget.

I had a grizzly experience a few years ago when a friend and I pulled into the Merton Lake forestry campground in early September. We were getting set for the start of Bullwinkle season.

Life seems very serious at the moment.

I'd like to thank the Prince George Citizen for the great interview about Arts North and take this opportunity to recognize the efforts of the entire team - Kate Ames, Philomena Hughes, Harshpreet Kaur, and especially Lisa Redpath.

I have been teaching about Canada’s 2008 apology for residential schools for some time now. In discussing the topic, I point out that this is not only a Canadian issue.

There are stories throughout history, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the excellent 2013 movie Prisoners, directed by Canada’s Denis Villeneuve and starring Hugh Jackman, about how people can lose their humanity in moments of crisis.