Opinion

June 19, 1930: Norine Patterson, eldest daughter of Mayor A.M. Patterson, cracked a bottle of wine over the nose of a Junkers F.13 to christen the plane "The City of Prince George.

It's that time of year again: The season of high-school graduations and graduation parties. The kids think school's out forever, and the parents know that school has not even begun yet.

Iceland tied Argentina in a World cCup soccer game last week. It was a David and Goliath match. A tiny nation home to only 300,000 people against a country over 100 times as large.

I occasionally read Nathan Giede's column in The Citizen, just as I occasionally watch a televangelist on TV. Some might say this is done for comic relief; I tend to think of it as know thy enemy.

As Mayor Lyn Hall spoke about the future, the future was ignoring every word, cheerfully drowning him out with their squeals of excitement.

Increasingly, political parties and leaders are realizing that spending money and running up deficits isn't a bad thing in the eyes of voters. If the B.C.

I read Neil Godbout's Saturday editorial"Some freedoms are limited" and found it rather curious that Mr. Godbout would include a disclaimer that his colleague happens to be a graduate of TWU.

Woe to the modern man, his masculinity diminished to little more than a rapist-in-waiting, committing multiples aggressions, large and small every day against women in a feeble attempt to conserve his patriarchal power.

Is alcohol worse than marijuana? This seemed to be the question asked by a one page spread of articles in the National Post last week. Surprisingly, with the National Post's reputation for conservatism, the answer appeared to be "yes.

It is a challenging time to be a man or a boy.