Opinion

This past week, Cariboo-Prince George MP Todd Doherty wrote a letter to the editor attacking the federal Liberals on job creation and debt. Mr. Doherty is proud of the Conservative record but I would ask if he has truly looked at that record.

Kim Phuc, horribly burned when she was nine-years-old during a napalm attack on her Vietnamese village in 1972, told her Prince George audience Saturday night at the Bob Ewert benefit dinner for the Northern Medical Programs Trust that the most excru

My first experience with sales was in high school selling chocolate bars door to door as a fundraiser for some school club. Not much interested in the club, but more interested in the prizes offered to the top sellers, I hit the pavement.

This is a great start to the first few days of spring. It is certainly an early spring for the Prince George area, and I already saw the first robins.

There is plenty to learn for every parent in Sue Klebold's book A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy.

Each year, 100 million Americans jump on a bicycle at least once, especially when the weather gets warm. Some of these pedalers are recreational riders; others rely on their bikes for transportation to and from work.

Today we sit without a plan to create jobs, are faced with out of control spending on part of this government, and there is absolutely no plan to return to balanced budget, a fact confirmed by the finance minister himself.

The following editorial is an edited and updated version of a column that first appeared in the April 1, 2005 print edition of The Citizen: Newspaper jokes on April Fool's Day seem to have fallen out of fashion, which is a little sad.

The idea of $10,000 meet-and-greets with the premier conjures up uncomfortable images of rich people buying exclusive access to leaders, and using it to get what they want. In fact, the format is closer to a modern, new-age sort of dairy farm.

Please do not renew my subscription. The Citizen has been part of my family since I moved to Prince George in 1978.