Opinion

On Third Avenue, there are bulb-outs. On Fifth Avenue, there's butt ugly. It's great that the City of Prince George switched to angle parking along Fifth Avenue this past summer, substantially increasing the amount of on-street parking downtown.

Subject: Sears employees. The laws need altering such that employees, their pensions and severance benefits come prior to all other creditors. Recall these people paid into those pensions for years - they should not be Sear's property.

It's the two year anniversary for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals and the mid-point for their term. They rode to power in 2015 on a wave of "Trudeau-mania.

Sometimes there is no explanation for waking up at 4 a.m. Sometimes, like today, I have woken in a panic clawing my way through a ridiculous dream wherein my husband and I are running barefoot in our backyard.

During the summer I wrote about how wonderful it was that folks like Judy Russell create top notch arts training and performance opportunities for our city's youth.

According to the teachings of Buddhism, there are three poisons: greed, hatred and delusion. When we study history and examine the world around us, we can see that most of our problems are rooted in these misaligned principles.

When my wife agreed to marry me, I was a delivery driver/installer for a small insurance service company in Vancouver, re-installing stolen-insured stereo and TV components in people's homes.

We are creatures of pattern. We engage in certain activities at the same time each year. We have rhythms that run through the weeks and months of our lives. But perhaps most importantly, we have a daily cycle which controls much of what we do.

We have some wonderful public art here in Prince George. Public art is planned and executed with the intention of being staged in a public domain and typically paid for by taxpayers, for all to enjoy.

Prince George Liberal MLA Shirley Bond was gracious enough last week to credit Finance Minister Carole James for retaining some of the previous government's ideas in her budget update.