Opinion

Having a home garden and growing your own fruits and vegetables has many benefits. You get the opportunity to watch your vegetables grow, know exactly what was used to help them grow and best of all you get to eat your vegetables at their freshest.

Besides the local celebrations of Canada's 150th birthday, television gave us the opportunity to share in the national festivities of this important milestone in Ottawa, at the very heart of our nation.

As Americans hold their collective breath, waiting for another diplomatic gaff from Donald Trump at the G20 conference in Germany, many of them look longingly to the north.

I have been stopped a few times over the last week and asked what I think about the decision to allow the B.C. NDP to form government with the support of the B.C. Greens.

My brother has a friend that I went to high school with and is around my age. They were roommates for years when I lived out of town. I have no idea what he looks like, at all.

As Canada celebrated 150 years as a country, it became very clear that not everyone believed the festivities were justified.

Regarding your July 5 editorial ("Could Bond rhyme with orange"), it does not. It would take copious consumption of soon-to-be-legalized hallucinogens to get my head around that one.

I really enjoyed the Canada Day celebrations on Saturday.

The backroom deal between Mr. Weaver and Mr. Horgan to wrestle control of the B.C. government from Christy Clark is political nonsense. This deal seems to center around Mr. Weaver's desire to kill Site C and Kinder Morgan pipelines.

Among all the other firsts in the 2017 election, you can chalk up another paradoxical one - the closest election ever has produced one of the most regionally unbalanced wins.