Opinion

At Monday night's City Council meeting, Mayor Lyn Hall presented a recommendation from councillors Garth Frizzell, Brian Skakun and Susan Scott, to rescind the first two readings of a bylaw which would have resulted in therezoning of a parcel of land

Five hundred years ago, back when Scotch was just whisky, almost everybody in Scotland could make and sell it.

The two languages of money are English and Math. Okay, three. Chinese. I was generally one of the smart kids in high school math, but university calculus was something else.

Tomorrow, the signing of the Great Charter or Magna Carta, will turn 802 years old. This document remains the first real codification of what we take now for granted as our liberties. But most importantly, it puts a check on arbitrary power.

For a government that passed the best-before date weeks ago, the swearing-in Monday for Premier Christy Clark and her revised cabinet lineup was a predictably sombre affair.

An analysis of health data reported by Northern Health to the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows that residents in area care facilities are experiencing pain at moderate to excruciating levels at more than twice the national average.

Please, please do not let the wind turbine initiatives go away from B.C. Our province desperately needs clean energy solutions.

Even though it has been some time since the bold-faced lie of Harjit Sajjan's attempt to elevate his importance of the Taliban assault codenamed "Operation Medusa," I still get a feeling of disgust toward our prime minister for failing to immediately

I applaud the efforts of the city and regional district for the creation and sale of compost but find the location of it only at Foothills a huge deterrent.

I spent the first week of June at a Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference in Toronto. It was the 100th anniversary and over 3,300 chemists attended five days of discussions and presentations about the latest research in chemistry.