Opinion

At the Citizen, we believe a central part of our mission reporting on the local community is to cover what goes on in our courts. We don't do it to publicly shame the guilty.

This is part one 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.

For the friends and families of the following individuals, next week will be their first Christmas without this amazing individual in their lives. We hope your sorrow and loss is also mixed with pride for how gracious this person was in life.

It's coming to the end of the year and a time when many people celebrate religious holidays like Christmas or Hanukah, New Year's, or Festivals of Lights.

Christmas has turned into a capitalistic consumer-based holiday where presents have become the focus in North America. This also means that where there are presents, there is trash...

One of the benefits of teaching is that I get to make the final choice with regard to the books we will study in class.

Once referring to his boss as "Mr. Theatre," former Canadian ambassador and small-l liberal Allan Gotlieb wrote a brilliant, and very frank memoir of his time serving in Washington as Canada's ambassador in the 1980's.

As a Dietitian in hospital, I often receive referrals for elderly patients who have been struggling to eat enough at home.

Buckle up, my friends, today's topic: why deregulation isn't the answer for stimulating growth in rural B.C., much as free market leaning individuals tend to embrace it when times get tough. And times are getting tough.

Our newsfeeds have been overwhelmed in recent weeks with the impeachment hearings of the American president Donald Trump. He is charged with violating American laws, primarily the U.S. Constitution.