Opinion

As a political scientist I am often asked if I intend to run for politics. My answer has always been quite emphatically no. I don't think my skin is thick enough for the horrors of contemporary politics.

Nine years ago, the Prince George Citizen won the most significant journalism award it has ever received in its century-long history.

It was the summer of 1956, and our family had just relocated to Winnipeg to begin a new congregation in the suburb of Weston. A large Winnipeg congregation purchased a suitable building for that purpose.

If you have ever gone hiking with Terry Brock, there is a good chance you have been lost. The thing about hiking with Terry is that he always inspires you to believe that he knows what he is doing.

After experiencing the bottleneck in traffic going towards downtown on Massey Drive, I felt compelled to write to The Citizen.

I saw the article about the Boon family forced to leave their land because of need for electricity.

Midway through listing all the good things happening in B.C. - always the mainstay of any premier's speech to the Union of B.C. Municipalities - Premier Christy Clark touched on this week's federal approval of one of the LNG proposals.

On Monday, UNBC informed area news outlets about 13 recommendations made to the school by a task force appointed to address sexual violence on campus.

Retired federal government employee Rae McIntyre was born in Trail in 1935. The eldest of five children, he grew up and attended school in nearby Rossland.

This week in Prince George history, Sept. 18-24: Sept. 24, 1920: Journalist Russell R. Walker reflected on the changes 10 years, the Spanish Flu epidemic and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway had brought to the region west of Prince George.