Opinion

Harry Gairns, a former president and manager of Industrial Forestry Service Limited, was born in the northwest village of Atlin in 1932. His grandfather came to Atlin from Scotland near the end of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898.

Do you remember what you were doing on Jan. 25? That was the day the first case of a novel coronavirus was reported in Canada. On Jan. 22, a man returned from Wuhan to Toronto and felt fine with no symptoms.

Gary and his wife, Carroll, were the best of friends with my wife Lou and me. When our wives died last year, we were heartbroken.

In our attempt to recognize, categorize and differentiate, individuals are waging the Third World War and we won’t even realize this until it is too late. My family moved to tPrince George when I was six years old.

Government can call me but I cannot call them. They put you on hold for hours. It's a big waste of time.

It seems that the lumber companies, Canfor in particular, are holding the township of Mackenzie for ransom while they try to extort a payment from the B.C. government in the form of lower stumpage rates. Any place else, it would be criminal activity.

At one point the words “our neoliberal fallacy propelled by its own nihilistic inertia into the abyss” graced this page in early drafts.

“Switch over and get 50 per cent off our regular fees and the second year free!” You know the deals; you hear them all the time.

In the dog days of summer and with so many Canadians weary of talking/thinking about COVID-19 and the WE charity scandal, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, America, and you never fail to captivate and horrify us simultaneously.

In times of crisis, true leaders step forward.