Opinion

Part two of two Last week, we started a 45,400 kilometre trip using distance to measure deep time. Each centimetre represents year in the life of the planet, the trip takes us back 4.54 billion years to the formation of Earth.

In technology, 25 years is an eternity. In 1993 there were no smartphones, the web was brand new, and we were heading to A&B Sound to buy CDs and cassettes. The BC Tech Association is celebrating 25 years of innovation.

In the space of one week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did two things that may transform his image from that of a soft vacillator to that of a tough politico who is prepared to make the bold calls.

Will it be tonight? Sunjai Sharma certainly hopes so.

The Citizen's Neil Godbout has come out strongly critical of the NDP's handling of the proportional representation issue.

By the chance of the calendar, my publishing date falls on June 6, 74 years after the invasion of Normandy. On that morning, some 150,000 Allied troops were launched into France by sea and air to bring an end to the Nazi occupation of Western Europe.

Language, as always, matters, mightier than any sword, sharper than any blade, the destroyer of reputations and the spark of revolutions, the source of comfort for aching souls and the inspiration for dreamers of a better world.

My father used to talk about a recurring dream he had in which he was walking into a beautiful white building with grand columns, knowing that it was his new home. When he was elected president, he said the image finally made sense to him.

Bully. Noun - a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker (synonyms: persecutor, oppressor, tyrant, intimidator).

On Friday night, Skeena-Bulkley Valley's veteran NDP MP Nathan Cullen fired out this missive via Twitter: "The day before Trudeau bailed out Kinder Morgan the two top executives were promised a $1.5 million bonus.