Opinion

In my never-ending quest to find new things to do in the winter time, my husband and I signed up for a brief curling lesson at the Golf and Curling Club in a program offered through our work recreational organization.

A long time ago, I read an article in Time magazine about super-tankers. It discussed a man overboard situation and how long it takes a tanker to stop.

If Tom Lukiwski had gone to some of Debbie McGladdery's speech arts classes, maybe none of this would ever happened.

The government acted in 1997 to ban a toxic gasoline additive MMT. Under the free trade agreement, Ethyl Corp sued the taxpayers and won a $251-million lawsuit. The banning of MMT for health reasons was tantamount to expropriation under NAFTA.

Last week I wrote about the American election and I looked at the different ways that the campaigns were being framed by the two main political parties. The Republicans, I argued, have also got two "outsiders" in the mix: Donald Trump and Ben Carson.

A handful of amendments to B.C.'s information and privacy law would force the B.C. Liberal government to drop most of the dodges it uses to avoid disclosure.

The most interesting person in the above photograph is not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, nor is it any of the hysteric individuals, mostly young women, greeting Trudeau as he left the media centre at the APEC conference in Manila, Philippines on Thu

As a chemistry student at UNBC who has finished a summer working with herbicides, I question the toxicity of herbicides in relation to other products in the house such as insecticides.

Just over a year ago, the Philae lander arrived on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It was a tremendous achievement. Humans were on the surface of a comet for the first time - albeit in the form of a robot assistant.

I have occasionally found myself watching a local worker with curiosity. He is an independent contractor of sorts, who slugs through some very challenging working conditions.