Opinion

As a hard working NDPer, I'm going to irk my political associates and defend Justin Trudeau. While I don't always agree with the PM in his decisions (electoral reform, pipeline), I do admire him as Canada's leader.

Analysis of the 2015 federal election suggested that two groups had chosen to cast ballots in overwhelming numbers compared with previous democratic contests: Canadians between the ages of 18 and 34 and Indigenous Canadians.

After successfully enrolling my kids into swim lessons, (which was harder than it should have been), we have been spending two evenings a week at the Four Seasons Leisure Pool.

Advancing age can bring with it experience, wisdom and unfortunately, a higher risk of malnutrition. Almost a million Canadians aged 65 and older are at nutritional risk, with women being at a higher risk than men.

None of us can truly share the misery and horror of Auschwitz and the other Nazi death camps. So vile were the Nazi programs that the idea of seeking some form of revenge against Germany seems natural.

Newly elected American Congressional Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez recently stated, "Until America tells the truth about itself, we're not going to heal." There is reason to hope that America will heal.

Joan (Dempsey) Lemky was born and raised in Hythe Kent, England in 1929. When she turned 15, she volunteered at her church social functions for the young men of the allied forces waiting to be deployed for D-Day in 1944.

The batteries in his 97-year-old grandmother's hearing aids were failing, so Tristin Hopper had to raise his voice to be heard in the noisy Sunday morning Victoria restaurant. That was too much for the aging baby boomer at the next table.

While India and Pakistan seem to have stopped bombing one another, the causes behind the cross-border tensions aren't going away any time soon.

We all know that our economic system for the last 100 years has relied on safe highways to transport goods and bring services to our diverse and widespread population in the North. We all know how important highways are.