Opinion

Data mining. Behavioral psychology and economics. Social media and digital strategies to attract both money and votes. This is what the B.C. NDP brain trust will be studying in detail during a three-day session starting today in Kamloops.

I was lucky to have had Vicki Bargy as our first employee in the business. Vicki was about 20 years older than I was at the time and at first that age difference was a bit awkward for me.

Home Again

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Gojko Bosnic [the original spelling of the family name] came to Canada in 1926 from the Balkans and settled in Northern Ontario. He purchased a quarter section of land for $500 and sold enough timber to double his investment.

This week in Prince George history, June 19-25: June 20, 1935 : German settler Karl Sauer suffered an unusual farm accident that left him in critical condition in the hospital, The Citizen reported.

If the contributions deducted for the Canada Pension Plan actually went into a pension plan, rather than simply being used to pay current pensions, contributors would retire much better off than in the current scheme.

I have just read two excellent articles from today's Citizen (Saturday, June 17). I have seen again the happy shining faces of the three recent grads from the CLA programs (Centre for Learning Alternatives) held at CNC on Wednesday.

The B.C. Liberals have advised mineral exploration companies that they can refuse to pay fees demanded by some First Nations for access to work sites where provincial permits have already been issued.

A recent article in the journal Cell, by Mauro Costa-Mattioli and colleagues, suggests female mice with a diet rich in fat generate litters with social deficits due to the changes in the offspring's gut bacteria.