Opinion

The front page of The Citizen last week featured a big splashy picture of Premier Christy Clark at the B.C. Natural Resources Forum and rightly so.

Like that uncle who shows up at the family dinner and reduces the conversation to uncomfortable glances between other family members, Prof. Michael Shayler suggests that today's children are lagging in their intellectual development.

Last week I wrote about the American caucus system, which is one of two methods for choosing a nominee for president.

The following is an excerpt from an email discussion from a concerned reader this week: Hello, I'm writing due to concern over the details that the PG Citizen is including when they report of cases that include sexual assault.

Frequently when I start working with business owners they want to know how much their business is worth. Many owners have dreams of retiring and selling their business for a million dollars or another magical number they believe it is worth.

Six months have passed since the risk of Chetwynd losing its stable group of physicians became a harsh reality. Chetwynd did what it has always done: weather the storm and continue working to come out stronger.

Next month's provincial budget is going to be an artful demonstration of a government trying to do something about a problem it doesn't really believe exists.

The obsession too many people have with the price of gas on any given day is lunacy. For those cheering the low prices currently being seen locally (from 77 to 81 cents per litre), the fuel fumes have clouded their minds.

"Soil is life" my friend and colleague Dr. Lito Arocena used to say. Soil is an interface between solids, liquids, and gases. It bridges the gap between organic and inorganic. It is the material from which living organisms derive their nutrients.

We anticipated an amazing adventure, and got one, but without the fish. A friend had raved about a mountain lake, teaming with thousands of hungry, wriggly trout.