Opinion

People are ready for 2020 to be over as COVID-19 threw the world for a loop and made everyone’s lives that much harder to live.

American intellectual and long-time social activist Noam Chomsky has been described by a term that is deeply offensive - a self-hating Jew. There is nothing hateful about Chomsky. He is a sojourner of truth and a voice of reason.

The English physician Edward Jenner is widely regarded as the father of modern vaccination. He inoculated a young man, James Phipps, with cowpox using variolation, in which pus was taken from a blister and introduced into a scratch in the skin.

It was all fun and games with a class of kids having an outdoor adventure while playing a game of trust when the accident happened.

I still believe that Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States of America.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, calm encouragement for citizens to act responsibly, even in their own self-interest to protect themselves and their loved ones, has been mostly a failure everywhere in the world and right across Canada.

It is not a crime, nor should it be, to profit off a business model that meets the needs of its customers, and in Amazon’s case, it is certainly the right service at the right time. Amazon sells convenience. We like convenience.

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Director of Residential School History and Dialogue at UBC was interviewed October 22nd on CBC' Radio West regarding the fact that 63% of the 7000 children in care in British Columbia are indigenous.

More than ever, in todays digitally disrupted world and in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, we all need to consider what our priorities are as individuals, families and communities, within our global economy.

When studying historical documents, it is quite fascinating to observe that regardless of how a statement was received at the time it was delivered, messages of truth, integrity and greatness endure through the ages.