Opinion

The toughest choice for most politicians is their last one. When is it time to quit? For Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio, he waited until his home state of Florida chose Donald Trump over him in the primaries.

Baseball season is upon us, and all of Canada is aglow with the newfound success of the Toronto Blue Jays. This has not been without controversy, however.

She and her government have had a lot of ups and downs over the past five years, but this week, as Christy Clark achieves the title of longest-serving female premier in Canadian history, there has been one constant.

Provincial NDP leader John Horgan, along with opposition finance critic Carole James, were in Prince George Monday night for a community roundtable session about the recent provincial budget.

I am a Canadian and I have been since birth.I feel the odd sense of national pride occasionally and I enjoy wearing a toque in the winter and I like moose. I don't love hockey.

A few more thoughts this week on carbon pricing but, if I may, from the perspective of science. One of the most important chemical reactions is combustion. It requires three things - a fuel, an oxidant and a source of ignition.

It's a non-urban, blue-collar and now apparently quite angry population. They're not people who have moved around a lot and things have been changing away from them, but they live in areas that feel stagnant in a lot of ways.

I'd like to reach out to the young woman driving the sandy-coloured Honda Accord with the N in the back window, whom I met parked at the intersection of Ospika and 15th at 1:10 p.m. on March 10, and say thank you.

Recently I had written about the beautiful potato and its beginnings, as well as the rutabaga.

In the old days, when kings and queens wanted to start a new war or build a new palace or hold a big celebration, they would just raise the taxes on the peasants.