Opinion

Disturbing is the first word. Shocking is the second. It is imperative reading for anyone interested in the news we read, about abuse of power, and those who manipulate and cooperate to make this abuse possible.

A "happy-fault" pervades our country. On the one hand, the division caused by Justin Trudeau has finally forced an honest discussion about the cracks in our Confederation.

Nov. 9 marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This was most significant global event of my lifetime (I was born in 1962) and it is worth remembering for many reasons. First of all, it is significant to note why the wall fell.

Almost every science classroom I have ever been in contains a periodic table. It is one of the most recognizable of all scientific images.

One of the interesting side effects about having a column in the local newspaper is that every once in a while, a person telling an exceptionally good story will stop and tell me that I can't write about this in my column.

Tim Gilbert told me it would be tough, but I never realized how tough tree planting was until I stood in the bush in the middle of nowhere, bugs swarming around my head, as I was being exposed to the raw elements of a northern springtime.

The problem with socialist visions, is that Jack always takes over the island. My ninth grade social studies teacher, an earnest Communist, enthusiastically regaled us with his summer vacation to dreamy, utopic China. He wasn't good with numbers.

Richard Hobson was born in Toronto in 1944 and raised in Vancouver. After high school, he worked for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for eight years. He married his high school sweetheart Judith Templer in 1970.

The journal Nature turns 150 years old this year. Depending upon your point of view, that is either a very long time or no time at all.

A huge congratulations and thank you to the Community Arts Council of Prince George and District Team (CAC) for the very successful 43rd annual Studio Fair, which took place Nov. 1-3 at the Prince George Civic Centre.