Opinion

B.C. is starting the 2017/18 school year with a shortage of 400 teachers. The big surprise should be that the B.C. teacher shortage is not at least ten times that number.

In a July interview, B.C. Education Minister Rob Fleming said: "I think our government just has a completely different and fresh attitude towards public education.

So the Ontario Elementary Teachers Union has asked the school board to eliminate the name of Sir John A. MacDonald on all schools bearing his name in recognition of his mistreatment of the aboriginal students.

As a 51-year resident of BCbH (British Columbia beyond Hope) I'm delighted to hear that I'll be subsidizing Lower Mainland motorists who use the Port Mann bridge. Picking up my share of this $4.

Our Lady of Good Hope church in Fort St. James was substantially completed and used at Christmas 1878.

As summer ends and school begins, it has reached my ears that yet another member of the Duchess Park 2008 cadre has left this life. The name and details are not mine to share - those who need to know, do know.

A s the kindergarten to Grade 12 students head back to school today across the Prince George area, their teachers are faced with passing on new knowledge that didn't appear in history textbooks when they were kids. Back in June, the B.C.

Thank you to the very generous lady who left us a gift card with the cashier at the Spruceland Save-On-Foods Saturday about 2:00 p.m. When we go shopping etc.(with my wife in her wheelchair) we meet so many kind, caring people.

Re: Letter entitled, "Dishonest coverage" (The Citizen, Aug. 23).

Shirley Bond on the CKPG news tonight talked about the toll free bridge at the coast and that the people of the north (you and I) would be paying for it.