Opinion

That there are economic benefits to staying in school would seem to be one of those no-brainer truisms. After all, there are many ways to demonstrate the worth of a degree, such as lifetime earnings.

Voters head to the polls across B.C. in four weeks from today to answer the same question they do every election, regardless of whether it's municipal, provincial and federal.

Gardening season will soon be here, as well as the gardening pests. Keeping plants pest-free is important when growing healthy, productive plants. Ideally you want to prevent pests from getting on your plants, rather than getting them off.

Far from providing cover for Christy Clark, the report from Ombudsperson Jay Chalke documents the premier's attempt to head off a full public accounting of the botched firings in the health ministry.

Judge Gorsuch is now a U.S. Supreme Court judge but his confirmation by the U.S. Senate did not come without controversy. Talk of the use of the "Senate filibuster" and the "nuclear option" has been front page news for a few weeks.

Weekend snippets: Springtime means the dogs are out and their owners with them.

What I had read in The Citizen, and the comments by some of our long time favourite players, explained the season perfectly.

What is it about Donald Trump that causes people to abandon rational thought and logic and imagine all sorts of ridiculous scenarios? Girl Guides of Canada leadership seems to have fallen victim to this malaise and suspended trips to the U.S.

I received a phone call from the College of New Caledonia, informing me that there would not be any chance letting me hold a week or two course for oil-fired heating systems in our area.

Polio is not gone yet! Poliomyelitis is a severe disease that can cause irreversible paralysis and even death. In Canada, we see polio as a problem of past times, but it is not gone from this world.