Opinion

This week in Prince George history, Aug. 7-13: Aug. 9, 1918 : The deckhands of the BX steamship landed a record catch from the ship's deck on Aug. 8: a full-grown black bear.

When the B.C. legislature adjourned after the brief summer session, Speaker Linda Reid sent members off with best wishes for a safe trip home and expectations that the house will "see you in the fall." Not likely.

Cleaning up around town seems to be a city priority, and it's been cracking down on disgraceful trailer parks, derelict properties and irresponsible landlords.

"See that old car down the street there? Imagine that's the opposition party. It's shattered, ancient, falling apart at the seams. My little gun is a racist mutant with a block of lunatic delegates...

It didn't take much to fascinate us little guys, so when the garbage truck came along, that was about the coolest thing in the world on a number of levels.

I n awarding the service of cleaning coveralls and mats to an out of town business when our local company, Spotless Uniform and Linen Service, was already doing a fine job our city has failed to walk the talk of supporting local business.

Having just returned from the 11th annual Paddle for the Peace, it is disturbing to discover that the majority of people in B.C. support the building of the unnecessary and exorbitantly expensive Site C dam.

It's been a long time since I brought up the issue of electoral boundaries and ward systems.

The Prince George Lomak Knights won the midget AA provincial championship on Sunday in Prince George with a suicide squeeze, one of the most legendary but riskiest tricks in baseball.

This editorial is an edited version of a column that first appeared in the Nov. 5, 2004 edition of The Citizen: The battle between George W. Bush and John Kerry for the presidency was closely followed here in Canada. Now that it's all over and the U.