Opinion

Otto Arndt was born in the heavily industrialized area of Germany in the Rhine Rhur area of Duisburg, Essen near Dsseldorf in 1939, an area that was targeted and suffered huge losses as the result of bombings during the Second World War.

This week in Prince George history, June 12-18: June 14, 1921: Prince George residents wanting a glass of near beer had until midnight to get it before the city's jitney bars -bars selling nonalcoholic drinks - were shut down. The Citizen reported.

Marketing your business is necessary, of course, but do you want to know what's even smarter? When your customers market your business for you. I'm not talking about 'word of mouth' or a referral system.

This week I've had a chance to reflect on why I am a chef. Why I sacrifice my time, body and mental stability to cook food for paying customers. The reasons may be complex, but the answer is simply because I love it.

Something has to give. Another three per cent municipal tax hike this year (or five per cent for those who thought they were getting back the two per cent increase for the 2015 Canada Winter Games).

Thank you for correcting my assumption that the Conservatives were the ones to sell off our Canadian National Railway (published letter, "Tories to blame for transit woes," June 8). Perhaps I could have written "conservatives" in lower case.

Our hospital, where if you need help you're gonna wait till you nearly die before they see you and deal with your issue. We don't got enough docs to go around.

When I was a very young boy we had a small creek in our backyard in North Vancouver. Along with a few of the neighbour boys, I used to carve little wooden canoes and set them to race in the harmless little flow.

In the list of "strange creatures" inhabiting Earth, the duck-billed platypus occupies a niche all its own.

More than 16,500 drivers penalized under flawed sections of the province's anti-drunk driving law between 2010 and 2011 are out of luck recouping their losses. In a churlish unanimous decision, a B.C.