Opinion

After 20 plus years as a paramedic and playing high impact sports, I spend a third of my time in P.G. for medical treatment and am very concerned our citizens aren't taking COVID-19 seriously.

One week into the provincial election campaign and little has happened except for John Horgan’s NDP and Andrew Wilkinson’s B.C. Liberals exchanging self-inflicted wounds. What a wretched start for Horgan. He ripped up his coalition deal with the B.C.

When Kathleen Soltis became city manager at the City of Prince George in March 2015, she was the right person at the right time .

Two reporters run into one another and after exchanging greetings, one says to the other: "these are crazy times and the past couple of days have been so hard, right?" "Sure have been," the other reporter replies, then stops.

The travel lockdown we are experiencing due to COVID-19 has been devastating. With the current travel restrictions in force, British Columbia’s air service was down over 93 per cent in April and May 2020. Traffic remains down 75-85 per cent.

BC High School Student Fees, a sampling from four districts: $10-21 student activity fee (basically just for being a student) $30-40 metal or woodworking fee $10-40 arts fees $120-145 deposit for scientific calculator $40-200 for physical education $

It is estimated there are 1.5 million people in Canada who have a brain injury. According to Brain Injury Canada, a non-profit research, education and advocacy organization in Ottawa, every year another 160,000 people experience brain injury.

Ivy League philosopher Cornel West has said, “We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.” West is not alone in this assessment.

Many of us seniors have been holding our breath as our grandchildren return to school and the fall flu season begins. Hopefully all will remain calm, the children will be safe and the COVID-19 case numbers will stop going up.

Given that it is presidential election season in the United States, I am certain that we, the United Empire Loyalists who chose to dissent from radical republican ideas, are tired of hearing about the ongoing travails of our cousins.