Opinion

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.

I live in West Kelowna. I enjoy reading your editorials in the Daily Courier periodically and want to comment on this morning's edition concerning the Paris crisis. I agree that the worst thing we can do is a knee jerk reaction.

While the B.C. Liberals are required by law to periodically appoint a legislative committee to review the province's Freedom of Information law, those reviews tend to bear no fruit because government is not bound to implement the recommendations.

At least they could agree on Stanley Lanyon. After more than four years of negotiations and mediation, including a two-week strike in March, UNBC's faculty and senior administration are still a zillion miles apart on pay and various benefits.

The Paris attacks are the top news story this week and possibly for the year. Intelligent people are assessing and looking for reason. There is talk of ideology but idiocy would be a more suitable term.