Opinion

An open letter to people who care about downtown Prince George: What do you think of the premise, "if you build it, they will come?" I was never one to put a lot of stock in that phrase.

James Moore is the wrong man to be UNBC's chancellor. Overnight Monday, the online petition asking the UNBC board of governors to find someone else other than James Moore to become the university's chancellor next May crossed 1,000.

Forty-five-year Prince George resident Una (Roy) McFarlane was born in 1932 and raised in Lethbridge, Alta. She was the youngest of three children.

The author Frank Crane said, "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." I have found this philosophy very useful as an educator. I like to trust my students.

Re: Teaching Syrians to hate. While Israel has tremendous sympathy for the plight of these refugees who are living under harrowing conditions, what E.G.

Extending a helping hand to any refugee is the right thing to do.

News item: Oxford Dictionaries selects "tears of joy" emoji as Word of the Year. "OMG," she said. "The Word of the Year isn't even a word." I was stunned: "WTF?" "It's true," she said.

Prince George city council is taking the prudent approach to the RCMP request for additional funding for more officers.

During the heat of the election campaign, Justin Trudeau and the Liberals promised to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015. That is a lot of people - over two Quesnel-sized towns worth of people. But it is also a drop in the bucket.

It's hard to think about Christmas when there is no snow. For the last three years, my family and I have started a new tradition: launching Christmas by attending the Festival of Trees.