Opinion

No good deed goes unpunished, the old saying goes. So it will be long after the last Cariboo wildfire evacuee heads home and things return to "normal" in Prince George.

Last weekend saw our family on yet another road trip for a brief holiday to the Lake country region near Vernon. Setting our alarm for a horrific 5 a.m.

In the film The Lion King, the young Simba is visited by the spirit of his father Mufasa who tells him, "You have forgotten who you are...you are more than what you have become.

Kathy Cline-Gardner Haynes, the daughter of a war bride, was born in Leeds, England in 1941. She was born right in the middle of the Second World War and arrived in Canada when she was only five years old.

After the double debacle of the last few months, Christy Clark faced an uphill fight to be taken seriously as a candidate to return to the office of premier of B.C. She blew the B.C. Liberal majority in the May election.

One of the best campaigners ever is leaving politics next week, and leaving a nagging question in her wake. Did B.C.

At 1030 p.m. Thursday night, 1:30 in the morning in Washington, Arizona senator John McCain cast his vote.

It wasn't something out of a Norman Rockwell painting. It was, after all, the '70's, but the sentiment was the same.

The liquefied-natural-gas dream has always been an abstract concept for most of B.C. The plants and pipelines were far away. The billions promised in benefits would go more to governments than directly to individuals.

As Kathi Travers wrote in her column last Thursday, I, too, love farmers' markets.