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Voicing disapproval

Voicing disapproval

I wanted to write and let city council and mayor know how disgusted I am and how obviously deliberately discouraging they have made it for those of us who pay their wages to disagree with your rich-minded, stupid hair-brained ideas for our city in te
Joggers beware

Joggers beware

As the weather warms up and roads and sidewalks become usable again, the seasonal exodus of those who want to run outside and exercise early in the morning or late at night begins anew.
Solutions needed

Solutions needed

When I was in school, students were politically active and engaged. We organized walkouts over oil spills and pollution. We protested against war. But these were one-day events.
Cliches are just empty words

Cliches are just empty words

As a longtime devotee of the subtle nature of our remarkable English language, the language of Shakespeare, Churchill, Martin Luther King, even Barack Obama, it seems to me that our current secondary-school English curriculum is in dire need of a uni
Reconciling divinity with suffering

Reconciling divinity with suffering

Many might suggest I avoid addressing the existence of God directly. But one cannot write about "why I believe" without facing the question of God's reality head on. If there is no God, we're all wasting our time on Sunday, as St.
Even the fittest can fall

Even the fittest can fall

Speaking as someone who can't climb more than two rungs up a stepladder without teetering, I wanted to say a few words about falls.
Shift bell curve towards health

Shift bell curve towards health

Life is lived on a bell curve. Many attributes of a population - height, for example - are distributed on a bell-shaped curve, with the average at the centre and then decreasing numbers of people as we get further from the centre.
Huawei biggest problem for Trudeau

Huawei biggest problem for Trudeau

Even as it delivers its pre-election budget this week, the Justin Trudeau government has serious corporate issues on its plate: the SNC-Lavalin matter that won't disappear no matter how it tries, the Trans Mountain pipeline that won't find a buyer no
Oil, gas wells liability looming

Oil, gas wells liability looming

A draft copy of an auditor general's report estimates there is a $2.8-billion liability in restoration costs from B.C.'s oil and gas wells, thousands of which are now inactive.
Northerners, rest of B.C. out of step on resource development projects

Northerners, rest of B.C. out of step on resource development projects

A survey conducted by Research Co. on behalf of LNG Canada sought to understand the support that exists for resource development projects in British Columbia and Canada.