Opinion

Editorial: Political leaders out of touch on health care

Health ministers have agreed to introduce one nationwide system for licensing doctors and nurses.

Oct 20, 2023 5:30 AM Read more >

Opinion: Aspen the answer to reducing Prince George’s wildfire risk

It’s an undeniable fact the resinous pitch-soaked pine and spruce will light up much more swiftly than a water-logged aspen should a fire sweep into our city.

Oct 20, 2023 4:30 AM Read more >

Les Leyne: Bureaucrats' rejection of power-generation plan to cost taxpayers $10 million

The B.C. Supreme Court ruled that officials committed misfeasance — wrongful exercise of authority — in rejecting the multi-million dollar project without having any apparent grounds or authority to do so

Oct 18, 2023 5:30 AM Read more >

Opinion: City council failed to ask right questions about CN Centre audio system upgrade

No one on city council bothered to ask the age of the sound systems at the Playhouse, Kopar or the Civic Centre before they voted.

Oct 18, 2023 4:30 AM Read more >

Rob Shaw: Finally, the BC NDP government tangles with short-term rentals

Will it work? Time will tell

Oct 17, 2023 7:15 AM Read more >

Adrian Raeside cartoon: Being a waiter

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Oct 17, 2023 5:12 AM Read more >

Les Leyne: Short-term rental crackdown was a long time coming

The last decade or so was taken up by ineffectually dabbing at the problem and bringing in measures that didn’t accomplish much of anything

Oct 17, 2023 4:06 AM Read more >

Opinion: Hooray for billionaires

Without billionaires, there would be no millionaires and no middle class, just the poor with no opportunity to advance and no hope.

Oct 17, 2023 4:00 AM Read more >

Opinion: Why do we continuously fail to see our common humanity?

I am sickened by the recent indiscriminate attacks by Hamas fighters on innocent Israeli civilians, even children.

Oct 16, 2023 9:38 AM Read more >

Geoff Johnson: A new twist on book banning — everything published before 2008 must go

Ontario’s Peel District School Board last month rolled out a process that caused some schools in the area to remove books published before 2008

Oct 15, 2023 4:30 PM Read more >