Opinion

There seems to be a direct connection between the amount of freedom an individual has and the belief that someone is just waiting around the corner to take that freedom away. It's rampant across all levels of Canadian society. Take gun owners.

If there was ever a time we needed journalistic integrity it is today. Integrity in this sense refers to both thoroughness and honesty of reporting.

I have a message for Brad Wall. "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face" (Macbeth). To my knowledge there is no way to determine if a human being has a desire to do Canadians harm.

Re: Regional district cleaning up messy property bylaw. I predict the review of the "messy property regional district bylaw" will be just that, only a "simple review.

It is a tragedy with what is happening in the Middle East that good people must flee their homes because of madmen. Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, bring them here. Canada needs about 50 million more people.

The letters to the editor on Nov. 15 and Nov. 21 from Vancouver and Victoria are very eloquent and respectful viewpoints of the Syrian refugee crisis. As a northern resident, I respect their viewpoint 100 per cent.

May the odds be ever in your favour. The Hunger Games may be a popular trilogy of books for young readers, adapted into four movies that made a zillion dollars, but they are also an invitation to revolution, disguised as entertainment.

Re: Pete McMartin's guest column from the Vancouver Sun. So we are led to believe by Rabbi Dan Moscovitz that "the Syrians are taught to fear and hate Israel, to fear and hate... Jews.

At some point, the $9-billion Site C dam project on the Peace River is going to hit the point of no return, where it's just common sense to carry on, rather than cancel. It's debatable where that point is.

I was asked recently why there is flame retardant in soft drinks - specifically, Mountain Dew. This is the sort of question, as a chemist, I have trouble answering.