Opinion

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.

Re: Crown seeks lengthy sentence - Jan. 19 Citizen story It would appear from the article that the length of sentence when convicted of a crime has a lot to do with your ancestry.

Re: Lower Williston Lake levels and lose Mackenize - Jan.

The Prince George Roll-A-Dome, a privately owned community centre, has for years housed ball hockey, roller skating, soccer, children's games, dances, weddings etc. without any help from the government.

I t's always easier to follow the herd than to choose your own path, though you will be staring at rear ends and walking in crap the whole way. In life, you have a 50 per cent chance at failing at any task.

This is an edited version of a column that first appeared in the April 30, 2004 edition of The Citizen: The winter he and I turned 10, Troy took me out with him a few times to tend to his rabbit trap line.

If David Bowie made some of the most important music of the 1970s to stimulate the mind, producing songs and styles that challenged convention, Glenn Frey and the Eagles were behind some of the greatest songs of that era that resonated in the heart a