Opinion

The 2019 multiple sawmill closures in B.C.'s Interior did not come out of the blue. Similar sawmill closures previously occurred on the coast, where 70 per cent of what existed in 1987 is now gone. Many in B.C.

Your letter from Dave Rempel, published July 4, made one true assertion and two dubious ones. Yes, scientific theories are always open to revision. New discoveries often revise established theories.

When I arrived in Ottawa as a reporter in the Parliamentary Press Gallery at 23, Perrin Beatty was already an ancient 31.

Today, economists and policy analysts interested in the future of work are confronted with a mix of conflicting evidence and forecasts.

Appurtenancy, under the NDP government in the 1990s, meant that wood for mills was tied to the local communities from which that wood was harvested. This quickly disappeared under the timber tenure reform policies brought in by the B.C.

There is a story told that a financial planner was on holidays in Mexico and was walking along the beach one day when he came to a wharf and saw a fisherman sitting there, his feet hanging off the edge playing his guitar.

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As a conservation group based in Prince George, we are concerned that B.C.'s "Big Tree Policy'" is a cynical calculation to avoid the protection of old growth at a scale that is necessary to avoid ecological collapse.

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it," Albert Einstein said. A client of mine has been a brilliant entrepreneur since he was very young.

Re: Liberal MLAs meet with chamber Another example of the broken electoral process.