Opinion

On Nov. 1 there was an letter, titled "Drivers need to show more respect to cyclists," and I would like to carry this further. Cyclists and pedestrians need to show more respect to drivers.

Thousands more drivers are crashing into each other, claim costs are rocketing up, the government is monkeying around with the Insurance Corp. of B.C.

The Northern B.C. Housing Study, presented during a forum at UNBC last Friday , shouldn't worry municipal governments and housing developers too much. If anything, it should have them celebrating a little bit, especially in the short term.

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke those famous four words "I have a dream" that has gone down in history as instrumental words of change.

First things first, I finally hit my goal of a full 100 pounds lost. It's surreal to say that, because it doesn't feel like 100 pounds have left my body, as I think my mind is still racing to catch up.

As a German teacher, I have been watching from a distance as Germany has evolved as a country after the horrors of the first half of the 20th century.

After a horrific fortnight of illnesses including croup, pink eye and some sort of nasty cold which may or may not have been caused by getting the flu shot, I received a notice from my son's school about an outbreak of chicken pox.

Coniferous breezes infused with earthly smells of moss and fermenting high bush cranberry with a tint of turned loam, the smell of smoke from the birch logs in our wood stove. Oh the scents of my northern home.

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