Opinion

I'm writing as a student, a mental health advocate, a junior hockey player in Kelowna and a community leader, in support of Petition E-1736, recognizing every Oct. 10 as World Mental Health Day and I urge all Canadians to sign this on-line document.

After a very long and tedious history lesson about the origins of democracy and attempting to define the word, Todd Whitcombe arrived at the real point of his latest column: to persuade his readers that what we have in the way of an electoral system

Another smoky August made for miserable northerners as many were forced to temporarily move, ditch their summer plans or retreat indoors from the oppressive smog last month.

Tragically, a 47-year-old cyclist died Monday afternoon at the corner of Queensway and First Avenue.

No! There's the land. (Have you seen it?) It's the cussedest land that I know, from the big, dizzy mountains that screen it, to the deep, deathlike valleys below.

This year's inductees as Citizens of the Year by the Prince George Community Foundation truly are four of the best this city has to offer.

Standing beside a small array of equipment that, to a layman, looked more suitable to power-washing your driveway than cleaning up after the Exxon Valdez, Canada's fisheries and oceans minister tried last Friday to soothe West Coast oil-spill fears.

Democracy. It is a word we all use but I am not sure everyone would give the same meaning if asked.

Where are you, Debora Munoz? What are you up to, Bryan Mix? How's it going, Trent Derrick, Jason Luke, Monica Peacock, Ron Gallo and Roy Spooner? We hope the last four years have been good to you since you put your name forward as a candidate for cit

Summer is over and I feel robbed of a beautiful August. It seems likely that August will forever be wildfire season in our neck of the woods but I am not particularly happy about it.