Opinion

In these last days of the Conservative leadership race, the second in three years, I have been asked several times who I plan on voting for and in what order.

The proposed $5.6 billion petrochemical plant for Prince George is on the move north, taking millions of dollars of annual local tax revenue and local economic activity with it.

When I first moved to the Hart eight years ago, I told people I was now in South Mackenzie. Folks in College Heights, where I had been living before, laughed. Folks in the Bowl smiled. Folks in the Hart smirked and nodded.

As inevitable as mosquitos and weeds in spring, conspiracy theories are quick to surface after every major world event, with an alternative explanation (read: the TRUTH) about what’s really happening and why. The COVID-19 pandemic is no different.

If you walked into a car factory with a sheaf of blueprints and told the manager that she had to switch to making motorcycles, she would call security.

Many expect me to react with yet more unrestrained vitriol for the latest move by Our Dear Leader to ban firearms, confiscate valuable property and turn law-abiding citizens into criminals overnight.

There is a 100 per cent probability that, at some point during your day, you will engage with art of some kind. The music you hear, artist. The album cover art (that just shows my age), artist.

Over the next few days and weeks, businesses across North America and around the world are going to un-shutter their doors and invite their customers back in.

Like many Germans of my generation, I have had to grapple with an uncomfortable family history.

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, many people in our community still get up and go to work every day, as they always have, and continue to provide services that benefit us all.