Opinion

After the Canada Day "terrorist" bomb threat at the B.C. legislature in 2013 broke, there was an extended debate about whether the defendants were real terrorists, or just village idiots.

The Olympics were wonderful. They brought the world together in the spirit of peace and fair play, with athletes gathering from all over the world to compete in a celebration of human excellence and accomplishment. Those days, however, are long past.

Dorothy Simpson suggested that those who opposed the rules of Ness Lack Camp and their enforcement erred by "cherry picking" the rules. Well, there are lots of rules in Leviticus and Ms. Simpson might well daily breech several of them.

My son Caleb fell out of his tree fort yesterday and landed smack on his head. He was bruised but not broken. His escapade brought me back to my younger days when my brothers and I built a huge tree fort.

One of the great joys of being human is that we do not know everything, we are always learning. On our journey through life, we often find that we are wrong and that we have a great deal to learn from our brothers and sisters.

A weeks ago, I was gleefully making fun of colleagues and friends who were stopped in the middle of hallways and distracted while I was talking to them.

We have great traffic laws but their enforcement to me seems spotty at best (or we have a lot of repeat offenders out there). Enforcing traffic laws saves lives, just the way enforcing the Criminal Code does.

Recent letters to this paper following news of Ness Lake Bible Camp's policies have been fascinating.

Did you realize 2016 is one second longer than last year? How do you intend to spend your extra second? By doing trivial things like sleeping? Eating? Vacuuming? Doing laundry? Consider this: it only takes one second to turn off a light switch.

I enjoyed watching the Canadian Native Fastball Championships over the August long weekend. A weekend pass was well worth the thirty dollars it cost, the fans were passionate, and the players competed strongly in every game.