Opinion

Here's a funny story: Imagine that you are on a "wilderness retreat" at an unswimmable lake way up a mountain close to Vernon.

Victor Frankl, while struggling to survive in a Nazi death camp, came to the realization that "love is the ultimate and highest goal to which one can aspire.

A beautiful flowering perennial that has many attributes, the coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) is a favourite in many local landscapes.

Canada's constitution and federal system is almost as dysfunctional as America's, only different.

As Christy Clark tells it, she realized when the votes were counted in May that resignation was the price she would have to pay for losing the B.C. Liberal majority in the legislature.

In Canada, we proudly call ourselves a "just society." We are fortunate that the rule of law is a cornerstone of our constitution.

"Why are you making us do this?" the lady screeched to the airline check-in attendant at the Dublin Airport recently. "I have never been asked before to put my carry-on luggage into those things.

It is three years today since Mount Polley Mine's massive tailings dam collapsed, creating the biggest, most destructive mining waste disaster in Canadian history: 26 billion litres of waste rock, polluted water, heavy metals, and processing chemical

The economics that the B.C. Utilities Commission will be relying on suggest that it's going to recommend to the NDP government that the Site C dam should proceed.

In the 20 minutes or so that it took for Energy Minister Michelle Mungall to announce the NDP's promised review of the Site C dam on Wednesday, B.C. Hydro spent about $28,000 building the thing on the Peace River. The $8.