Opinion

The person who exemplified the power of a witness passed away on Saturday at the age of 87. Elie Wiesel was not simply a Holocaust survivor, he was a great teacher, a man of passion and one who left the world much better than he found it.

In their well-coordinated June counterstrike on Donald Trump - a response to his outrageous call, following the massacre in Orlando, Florida, to ban Muslims from entering the United States - President Obama and Hillary Clinton described the presumpti

Provincial government plans to diversify British Columbia's resource-based economy by developing markets and exports for liquified natural gas, a project which seems to have dominated cabinet thinking in recent years, is all well and good.

The summer was a good one for bears. In fact, there were seven bears that particular week. They were hanging around my sister Marie's house where we were renting the basement while building our own home.

The article in The Citizen referring to the Ancient Forest (Inland Temporate Rainforest) will soon be protected by being designated a Class "A" provincial park and hopefully become a World Heritage Site.

Kids, water, fishing and summer go together. Last year there was a marvelous dock set up at Eena Lake. It was a wonderful place for families and and late afternoon fishers and perhaps, unfortunately, a few late-night rowdies.

There's been a lot of hand wringing in the media of late, bemoaning the British vote to leave the EU. We've heard that they were suffering from buyer's remorse and they didn't really know what they voted for.

On paper, Jason Kenney is exactly the right man to unify the Alberta Progressive Conservatives with the Wildrose Party in a rejuvenated right-of-centre coalition to send the NDP's Rachel Notley packing in 2019 after one term in office.

Gerolamo Cardano was celebrated throughout Europe as a physician to nobles of the Italian court and the Chair of Medicine at the University of Pavia. He was also something of an amateur mathematician.

On such a tiny scale of economic influence, it still mattered. I was a young banker with very little ability to influence the big machine, but I did have some.