Opinion

Prince George, you've let me down. All year, I have been waiting for the start of something amazing: curling season.

Jim Weed was born in Greenwood in 1945 and moved to Grand Forks in 1949. He was just out of high school when Jim and a couple of his friends decided to head north and look for work.

Recently, I facilitated a meeting of a group of over 100 retailers. It turned out that 70 per cent of them were either fearful or concerned about the future of their retail stores.

Here we go again. Overnight, prices on a liter of fuel raise by 12 cents. The multinational oil companies have not offered any reasonable explanation for this huge increase.

I agree with Todd Whitcombe in his opposition to the highly vocal promoters of reforming our longstanding electoral system and the lamentations over what they call "first past the post" --that's that weird idea that in a race that the winner is, well

Agriculture Minister Lana Popham's enthusiasm for a review of one of her ministry's labs to protect "the integrity of the science" is waning in the face of sustained questions about the integrity of the review itself.

A man was sentenced in Quesnel court last week to 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting five young girls - four of them his nieces. The girls were between the ages of four and seven.

Science is an ongoing dance between techniques and discoveries.

With reference to the recent stats presented to the Northern Health board, I am very concerned at the high numbers of musculoskeletal/soft tissue injuries being sustained by staff together with accompanying mental health issues.

In response to "proportional representation not the answer for B.C.," Oct. 23 by Todd Whitcombe. There is no perfect voting system but first past the post - our current system - is deeply flawed.