Opinion

Five years ago, Harper's Conservatives were elected with 40 per cent of the vote, meaning 60 per cent of Canadians did not support them.

Bill Russell's letter to the editor on Oct. 13 discusses MP Dick Harris's attendance in the House of Commons at sometime in the distant past. The reason it is the distant past is because electors in the Cariboo riding have been electing Mr.

Well here we go again. We vote for someone not really knowing if it will do any good. The trouble with our system is that it's based on party (call that ol' boy politics). There should not be a divided house in our government.

If you are among the millions of Canadian who are sick of repressive laws, racist tactics, anti-evidence policies, fake surpluses, disgraceful environmental inaction, secretive politics, job-killing trade deals and corporate-profits-first economics,

Baseball fans and physicists love the knuckleball because it is black magic, a dark art only few ever master. The ball comes out of the pitcher's hand spinning rapidly all the time, except for the knuckleball.

Scramble: To climb or move quickly using one's own hands and feet, up or down a steep incline, generally not on a marked pathway. For some of us, while on vacation the temptation to scramble up a mountain side is irresistible.

Stephen Harper has announced he will ban the niqab from all federal offices. Finally we have a leader who takes seriously the concerns of hard working Canadians.

Mr. Zimmer, like many of the people who attended last Tuesday's debate, I found your comments about the missing and murdered First Nations women along the Highway of Tears offensive and disturbing.

"Got one!" I hollered. "Got me a terrorist!" She sputtered and squirmed, protesting her innocence, but I kept her pinned under the table.

In early August 2002, a 64-year-old prospector from Calgary was reported missing near Sinclair Mills east of Prince George.