Opinion

The 2017 provincial election is an opportunity for candidates to say what they will do to improve B.C. forestry - our most important public asset. Logging peaked in 1988 at 90 million cubic metres and has declined 25 per cent to 68 million.

Democracy can be so easily hijacked. We only have to look south of the border to see how that happens. The Americans play games when it comes to setting electoral district boundaries and they've been doing it for so long they even have a word for it.

In 1983 I was living in California on a volunteer assignment, and became good friends with an entrepreneur - a computer manufacturer of all things.

I was at the same doctor's office for over 35 years, but the new doctor is not working out. Only one problem per visit does not work unless a patient's full background is known.

One hundred years ago Canada came of age at Vimy Ridge? Then the take from Vimy Ridge is that force of arms is the way that nations move up in the world. Three thousand, six hundred lives snuffed. The Canadians won.

It has come to my attention that the school board of School District 57 has noted that the current fire exit doors that lead immediately to the outside areas from each classroom in College Heights elementary are in need of upgrading.

It's been a long Lent. Truly it is a time where self-reflection as well as rededication to those more holy things can take place, if we but shut off the banal noises of our age and look heavenward.

In the fantastic Netflix series Black Mirror, there is an episode called Nosedive that perfectly chronicles how social media controls its participants, not the other way around.

I see that Art Betke has found a kindred spirit in Donald Trump, another climate change denier, "it's all a hoax, folks" and has decided to defend him by attacking the leadership of the Girl Guides.

This is an open letter to all political candidates and particularly to Christy Clark. You have stated that you and your government have done such a great thing by reducing the medical premiums.