Opinion

Raiding the archives

Busy streets full of holiday shoppers, winter's cold settling in, chocolates a plenty, ahh yes winter holiday season is up and going full steam while I write this column.

"Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Hi

It is with heartfelt gratitude that I offer this letter of recognition to the community leaders and the citizens of Prince George.

I spent Christmas 2015 sitting at my kitchen table, smartphone in hand, tracking overdose deaths across Greater Victoria. Eight people had died in seven days, three in the preceding 24 hours.

In 2014, there was the trial of the century for Cody Legebokoff, who would receive a life sentence for murdering three women and a teenaged girl before his 21st birthday.

At the Dec. 12 District of Mackenzie council meeting, Bruce Carscadden from Carscadden Architects Inc. provided an update to council on the second phase of the recreation centre upgrades. Mr.

As 2016 ends, I find myself utterly exhausted from the year's events like many people, but also quietly reassured - unlike so many of my fellow critics.

Broadcaster and motivational expert Earl Nightingale tells us, "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal." Every year, many of us come up with New Year's resolutions.

Upon reading various letters to this paper, the underlying theme seems to be that no government has a real majority. This stems from the fact that not a lot of us bother to vote.