Opinion

I was a teacher before I got married and was very proud of that fact. I am now 82 years old, so that was a long time ago. I taught 20 students between Grades 1 to 8 in a small school in northern Saskatchewan.

While Finance Minister Mike de Jong trumpets the fourth budget in a row to show a surplus on the operating side, he ought to be giving quiet thanks to a long-departed auditor general for an accounting change that continues to sweeten the bottom line.

Why downgrade a world-class facility, Tom Masich asked last June in a lengthy letter to The Citizen explaining his opposition to the proposed "improvements" to the Prince George stadium that bears his family's name.

It was the wave of alarm about never-ending cost increases in health care a few years ago that brought the phrase "bending the curve" into common usage in political circles.

Gravitational waves are big. I mean that in two different ways. Over the past week, they have gone from an obscure prediction resulting from the mathematics underlying the General Theory of Relativity to front page news.

Michael Gerber in his book the E-Myth Revisited suggests that entrepreneurs need to think about what the business is going to be in five, 10 or 25 years down the road and start building towards that. However the road to success is fairly simple.

In Grade 5 I was invited to sit occasionally at a special desk at the back of the classroom, which served as solitary confinement.

Nothing says public sector management like replacing a nine-member board of directors with a 17-member advisory committee. That's what the City of Prince George did Thursday when it named its economic development committee.

Potato, or papa, is the world's fourth largest staple. But the simple potato wasn't always such a big deal.

When it comes to free communication advice I've doled out over the years, the number one topic of conversation is social media for business.