Opinion

If you're like me, you probably remember spending lots of carefree time as a kid playing outside. Running and exploring in the woods. Playing hide and seek. Camping in provincial parks. Swimming or fishing in lakes and rivers.

Columnists from the Vancouver Sun and the National Post have piled on in outrage after the revelation from Gary Mason of the Globe and Mail that Christy Clark received a $50,000 stipend last year, over and above her pay as premier, from the B.C.

Kwame Alexander's novel-in-verse, Booked, is a beautifully written feast of language told from the point of view of eighth-grader Nick Hall.

Wilfred Miller, the son of Arthur and Gretchen (Gruntman) Miller of German descent, was born at home on the family farm in the village of St. Benedict, about 56 kilometres north of Humboldt, Sask. in 1926. St.

This week in Prince George history, May 1-7: May 3, 1921 : With the help of a stool pigeon named Oscar Johnson, Prince George police arrested seven people connected to selling liquor in the town.

As the cotton wood trees open their buds and emit the sweet fragrance of the coming season, the fiddle heads are poking up through the rich soils beside streams deep in the forest, the morel mushrooms and the false Solomon (Maianthemum racemosum) sea

Deepak Chopra said, "Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time." Such a philosophy seems to contradict beliefs that are very prevalent in our Western society.

I love pork. Bacon, dry cured, sausage, you name it I'll devour it. I even have four swine-related tattoos and my niece and nephew call me Uncle Bacon. I'm a lifer at this point.

I have been thinking a lot about the idea of "luck" recently. One of my best friends will say that she is very lucky.This is said humbly and without bragging.She just knows that she is a lucky person and that good things happen to her.

As post-secondary students across the city take final exams and make preparations for graduation, some of them will begin looking to enter the business world. The impressionable ones will leave town for bright and shiny opportunities elsewhere.