Opinion

I have seen quite a few people in my career as a tax lawyer come to me wanting to challenge an income tax assessment or reassessment from the Canada Revenue Agency.

Thank you for the Nov. 13 article by Charelle Evelyn regarding former Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris. I sincerely wish Mr. Harris a pleasant retirement and would like to answer his comment about the outcome of the recent general election.

Vanderhoof may not be in School District 57 but it's problems are likely common provincially. After a very successful first season, my 11-year-old grandson learned his band teacher had moved out of town, after her part-time contract expired.

Environmentalists were giving high-fives last week over the potential demise of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. Not so fast, folks. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hasn't nixed the pipeline per se.

It's snowing! The time has arrived for present anxiety and frantic cleaning of houses before company comes. It's also the time that I personally start to think about making the gifts for my family that I should have made three months ago.

I usually sit down to write these columns on Friday night but this last Friday, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. The news out of Paris - well over 120 people dead and twice that many wounded - was just too surreal.

An attack on all of humanity, U.S. President Barack Obama called it. French president Francois Hollande declared it an act of war. So the chorus of outrage went. What happened in Paris Friday is a tragedy and there must be a response.

I'm very disappointed with the news media in Canada. I have written in to the The Citizen before about the unfairness of the fuel prices. The editor Neil Godbout suggested that I had erred that government taxes were part of the problem.

The mother of a young woman who committed suicide hours after she aged out of the child-protection system last year still doesn't have much information from public officials on how her case was handled.

Kamloops residents let their mayor and city council know how they feel about a proposed downtown performing arts centre last Saturday, voting 54 per cent against borrowing $49 million to help build the $90-million facility.