Opinion

After a pleasant dinner date a few years ago, my wife and I picked up some ice cream treats and decided to park and eat them slowly, so we wouldn't have to share them with the kids.

B.C. needs proportional representation. Over the last few years I've been looking closely at democracy in Canada. It was really surprising to see that Canada elects governments that have less then 50 per cent of voters supporting them.

The wildfires and recent upheaval in my hometown of Fort St. James evoke special and distinct memories.

After the last editorial in April about former Prince George mayor Shari Green throwing her name in the running for the Conservative nomination in South Surrey-White Rock for the 2019 federal election, many phone calls and emails came in.

There are around 90 naturally occurring elements found on Earth. I say "around" because neither technetium nor francium have ever been found in isolatable quantities.

I have been fortunate in my lifetime to witness the exploration of the entire solar system, from the launch of Sputnik in October 1957 to the New Horizons flyby of Pluto in July 2015.

"Ye shall reap that which you have sown." Never was a truer phrase written. The seeds of our present destructive fires were sown in 1912 with the establishment of the B.C. Forest Service.

I am not a fan of NAFTA and its predecessor, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. I do not believe either agreement has been in our best interests economically. They have cost us more than we gained.

In the song Sympathy for the Devil, the Rolling Stones repeat several times, "Pleased to meet you. Hope you guessed my name. But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game.

One of the monuments found in Bangkok is the Victory Monument. Most assume that the "victory" must be one from the endless wars between Burma and Siam.