Opinion

Every now and then, an editorial or column appears in this distinguished newspaper that raises my ire.

I cannot overestimate how much I dislike spending money on vehicles. I go out of my way to avoid buying gas and consider it a personal victory if someone else (i.e. my husband) has to drive my vehicle and buys gas for me.

Bill Campbell column hed Mugshot attached Column name "Journey through my lens" Unlike other spring break holidays, this year I found myself not sure what to do with my little family of three.

Tony and Dodie (Bridden) Bond have been in Prince George since 1976. Dodie's parents were living in the small village of Masset, on the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) when she was ready to be born into this world.

Currently, the interests of small communities across the north, like Fort St. James and Mackenzie, and the people that live here, seem to be ignored. Our northern communities are in decline.

In November of 2014, I brought home my first child.I brought something else home too, although I didn't know it at the time.

One of the most important tasks I have as a public school educator is empowering my students to take an active role in the Canadian political process. If I am going to ask my students to be active citizens, then I need to model the desired behaviour.

Recently I wrote an article about three things you could learn from Donald Trump. Those three things were: take more holidays; be quicker to fire and play to win. Just like Trump himself, the response to that article was polarizing.

"It's your fault." "No it's not, it's yours." "Stop bickering, why don't we all just agree to blame it on the Speaker?" "We can't do that." "Why not? It makes perfect sense and it gets us all off the hook at the same time.

"Seniors' poverty in B.C. rose from a low of 2.2 per cent in 1996 to 12.7 per cent in 2014," according to Poverty and Inequality Among British Columbia's Seniors, a 2017 report by the B.C. Office of the Canadian Institute of Policy Alternatives.