Opinion

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.

"North to Alaska, go north, the rush is on," Johnny Horton sang in 1960.

I have met many politicians in my time but the hardest working politician I know is Shirley Bond, the MLA for Prince George-Valemount.

It's a big machine. Twenty-eight years ago, my very first boss at RBC was at the tail end of a long career working for a benevolent employer, enjoying a largely prosperous five decades since the Second World War.

As a child, I cannot count how many times I would drink from the garden hose or the outdoor faucet. I survived. It never even made me sick.