Opinion

Remember Columbia House? In their introductory offer stuck inside so many magazines in the late 1970s and early 1980s, you could buy as many as 11 cassettes for just five bucks, with the promise that you'd buy five more over the next couple of years

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Businesses come and go, we see them opening up, struggling for a few years and closing their doors. We might even hear that they offered something that we were searching for, after they have closed down.

The following is part two of a two-part series as I review and recap the names and a bit of information about the people that I wrote about in my column throughout 2019. - Janet Dahlberg grew up in Bezanson, Alta.

My brief respite from weekly meditations was put to good use. I imbibed in consumerism for the sake of friends and family, but did not syncretize its frenzy.

Dec. 31 is one of those days that causes many of us to pause and reflect as we transition to the start of a new calendar year. It sits in the epicentre of the past and the future, of progress made so far, and of future goals.

I love living in the Prince George area. The only way I could love it more is if the winters were shorter, the summer weather more predictable, better rural internet access and the direct flights in and out of town more frequent.

In the classic book, The Art of War, Sun Tzu teaches about far more than war. He teaches some of the key elements of a joyful and meaningful life. "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Outrage is not much help. A petition is better but it's still not enough. Much more needs to be done about child sex predators and our federal politicians need to get busy.

Every now and then, I get a "gut feeling" about an issue, topic, or information. A sense of its veracity from somewhere other than my conscious mind.