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Skating is physical, and physics

Skating is physical, and physics

To a first approximation, skating is skating is skating. Whether it is hockey, ringette, speed skating, or figure skating, the underlying physics involved in moving across an ice surface is the same.
Nobody needs automatic weapons

Nobody needs automatic weapons

Message for the Donald (Trump that is). I will not respect you by calling you president until you do something to earn that respect.
Move your cars if you want snow plowed

Move your cars if you want snow plowed

Joanne Underhill writes in the Feb. 15th edition of The Citizen that the city discriminates against one area on Victoria Street, the ghetto as she calls it.
Kids calling for change on gun control in U.S.

Kids calling for change on gun control in U.S.

I, like most, was outraged after the Sandy Hook massacre when 26 seven-year-old children and six adults were ambushed by Adam Lanza using his mother's Bushmaster XM-15 on Dec. 14, 2012.
Pull the trigger

Pull the trigger

This editorial first appeared in the Jan. 17, 2013 edition of The Citizen. Five years later, the laws and the politicians in the U.S.
Monastery life a throwback

Monastery life a throwback

I visited the monastery again last weekend. It had been about a year and it was good to return, if but briefly.
New approach needed on homelessness

New approach needed on homelessness

There are many platitudinous words written and spoken and many hands wrung over the issues of poverty and homelessness in our society. There are two solutions that have now been tried and seem very promising.
Depression a cancer of the soul

Depression a cancer of the soul

In his talk Monday at the UNBC Timberwolves Legacy Breakfast, former TSN host Michael Landsberg offered a frank talk about his longtime challenges with depression and anxiety.
B.C. holiday should be called Terry Fox Day

B.C. holiday should be called Terry Fox Day

To Premier Horgan: If Prince Edward Island can have Islander Day and Manitoba can have Louis Riel Day, why can't you change our Family Day to Terry Fox Day? It's about time we bestow a day for a true Canadian hero. Warner Bliskis Prince George
Horgan wears the white hat in pipeline showdown

Horgan wears the white hat in pipeline showdown

The editorial "Horgan holds losing hand on pipeline" (Feb. 16) got the broad strokes of the story on the current Trans Mountain pipeline battle right, with its bullies and scoundrels and the misguided, futile political calculations.