Opinion

Greetings. I commend you on your recent address to world leaders, who are too often sheltered from the truth.

Resource industries in Canada are used to facing pressure. For forestry, mining and oil and gas, some of the pressure is caused by poor access to markets, simply because of our vast geography.

One of the fundamental principles taught to chemistry students is the law of conservation of mass. In any chemical reaction, the amount of mass in equals the amount of mass out.

My little nephew Ty has dark brown skin and curly black hair. His father, a Jamaican man, has much darker skin than he does. His mother - my wife's sister - has much lighter skin than Ty. She is white.

West Coast Olefins wants to build a petrochemical plant here in Prince George to the tune of some $5.6 billion. That's with a "b.

More than a few times during this federal election (and probably a few more times before it comes to a merciful end Oct.

To all the citizens angry at children: wow, you are so right! I never knew that children, who cannot vote, had some much power. I didn't know that they were shaping the economy to such a high degree.

They say the rich get richer, but my experience is that the rich get nicer. Not the wannabe rich. They're cranky. I mean the ones who earned it from scratch, and they're stingy with themselves but generous to a fault.

This year, my partner and I made the decision to "move up" to Prince George. We were drawn to the city by the promise of excellent education and work opportunities and a high quality of life.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L.