Opinion

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.

As owners of businesses we know that there are a variety of options in how we can price our products. Boutiques for example might pick a high or value priced model. Some business models demand a discount strategy.

This week in history, March 6-12