Opinion

I remember my pack-a-day mother swearing off cigarettes when the doctor scheduled her for a partial lung removal. She lived for more than a decade afterward, but the damage had been done. But at least my mother had a plan to move forward.

As Father's Day approaches, it's fitting that we reflect on the impact of child care on families and children. Fathers may want to stay home and raise their children, but it's often not financially viable. A Pew Research Center study in the U.S.

It has become the most natural thing to do: get in the car, type a destination into a smartphone, and let an algorithm using GPS data show the way.

The Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador has upheld a labour arbitration award that endorsed an employer's refusal to employ a user of medical cannabis. In International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Loc. 1620 vs.

While the total number of signed alternate approval forms opposing the city's borrowing of $32 million over 20 years fell short of the legal required number to have the city reconsider this proposal or go to a referendum, the fact of the matter is so

It has been evident in recent weeks and months that the federal government is in a weak position - even though it might proceed - to grant the go-ahead to widen the Trans Mountain pipeline.

We were going 64 in a 50 zone on our way to bury Larry when we got pulled over. When the police officer asked the reason why we were going so fast we told him that we were on our way to Larry's funeral.

"I will never go into a care home." Our mom said this often but she has now been in the Gateway Lodge in Prince George for over two years. Sometimes it can't be avoided. Mom is on the third floor of Gateway and has a nice room.

Even as the complaints via the B.C. news media persist over "sky-high" gasoline prices, I still see daily the usual large number of parked vehicles idling for multiple minutes.

Marketing and branding cannabis and its derivatives in Canada presents significant challenges. The federal government built the marketing restrictions in the federal Cannabis Act on the restrictions developed for the tobacco industry.