Opinion

In 1973, the band Brownsville Station released the song Smokin' in the Boys' Room. At the time, nearly half of Canadian adults and teens smoked.

As children and teenagers across British Columbia go back to school this week, parents across the province may be thinking about their future earning potential.

So the B.C. Utilities Commission reports there is "a significant unexplained difference" in gas prices between Metro Vancouver and Seattle. The differential is around 13 cents per litre.

On my 14th birthday, I bought my first gun, a beautiful lever action Marlin 30-30. I had to sell my skis and use most of my savings to get the $100 for the gun, a box of shells and still have enough left over for licence and tags.

We all feel shame sometime in our lives. Usually we feel this powerful emotion when we do something that doesn't quite match up with our personal values. As a child, we might feel shameful if we told a lie to our parents or were mean to a friend.

It has recently come to my attention that the provincial government is supporting the lame proposal to electrify the natural gas system with the idea of somehow reducing the emissions into the atmosphere.

I wish that my topic was really fake news and not reality. Before I finish this email, I'm likely to have to stop and weep. While watching cable news, I learned that families - mostly migrant ones, but not all - were sent notices from the U.S.

We're told by the media that fires are burning at a record rate in the Amazon forest, that the number of fires in 2019 is up by 80 per cent, "without precedent in the past 20,000 years." Ready, set, panic.

I have a couple of questions for the drivers of PG.

Twenty-five hundred years ago, Democritus of Abdera said "there appears to be heat, there appears to be cold, there appears to be color. In reality, all there is are atoms and the void.