Opinion

I was sitting in the chair in front of Jose in his office one morning recently, and he stopped me and asked why I hadn't brought up the business at hand when we had tickets to a ball game a couple nights before.

When I heard Donald Trump saying he might use a military option to oust a socialist government in an economically ravaged, oil-dependent economy, I thought he was talking about Alberta.

AiMHi is moving forward with a new approach to the community collection bins. We place value on the feedback from the community and feel we are now a leader in a new, safer collection approach.

There are no new tax measures that increase provincial government revenues in Budget 2019," was the reassuring line in the document. Because they're too busy dealing with the fallout from the last batch, was the unwritten but assumed explanation.

You can't fault the guy for trying. At least Coun. Brian Skakun is actively trying to find ways to save money at the City of Prince George and he's willing to look at everything - even snow removal - to reduce the tax burden on local residents.

In 1898, science fiction writer H.G. Wells imagined a sudden attack on London by powerful Martian techno-monsters, who obliterated everything in their path and drank the blood of their human victims.

No, it's not global warning, it is the vanishing of the Prince George Cougars "New Ice Age" as coined by the new owners when they took over ownership of the team.

Political scandals - usually about money, sometimes about sex - have their own laws of physics. Their pathologies rarely deviate. In the case of l'affaire SNC-Lavalin, what we are witnessing is textbook.

Canadians head to the polls eight months from today to elect a new federal government and many of them seem to be doubting Justin Trudeau's leadership for the first time in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin affair.

For the past few weeks, we have been discussing the periodic table which celebrates its sesquicentennial in 2019.