Opinion

When I was a child, I had a tremendous fear of falling. I would climb a tree and I couldn’t trust that the branch wouldn’t break. I climbed cranes, cliffs, and buildings and was always afraid that my footing would slip and I would fall.

Re: Towards a full glass of water, March 22, The Citizen. As the former chief scientific officer for Imperial Metals from September 2014 to December 2018, I take issue with comments made by the authors about Mount Polley.

It’s all a disaster. The vaccine rollout, in B.C. and across Canada, has been as rough and traumatic as hitting a popular local mudding trail at full speed in your brand-new 4x4.

“Cancel culture” is here to stay. By cancel culture, I mean those people who have decided certain events, people, moments in history need to be rewritten to reflect a worldview that has erased God from human events.

This is an open letter to Justin Trudeau. I read in one of your books about you having participated in the Christian course Alpha a number of years ago.

Last week, I said we can do something about climate change without hurting our economy. I would add “but our economic model is flawed which is why we find it difficult to deal with crises.

Social media is largely about perspective generation and very little about truth seeking and truth telling. It is, for the most part, an electronic replacement for the erstwhile village gossip.

I, and a few people I know, live without owning computers or smartphones. It can be a little inconvenient at times but we manage.

An open letter to Taylor Bachrach, Member of Parliament for Skeena- Bulkley Valley: I’m confused.

It’s all very well to believe in gender equality, but there is much more to the story. As intersectional feminism points out, the very term of “gender” makes a massive generalization.