Opinion

With infectious diseases mounting a comeback, provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall wants childhood vaccination beefed up. Currently, every youngster is supposed to be immunized against a variety of infectious diseases by age two.

Everyone it seems has some comment about the state of our medical system. I recently had an adventure-filled holiday Monday that involved my appendix needing to vacate my body. As I sat in the emergency room in both Fort St.

With a little less than a month to go, the race is really beginning to heat up. It would be great if I was talking about the pennant race and the Toronto Blue Jays but, no, it is the federal election I am referring to. We go to the polls on Oct.

I read a story about a bull elephant wounded by poison darts (shot by poachers). This elephant travelled to the nearest wildlife rescue centre to be helped by humans.

The on-and-off relationship between the building trade unions and BC Hydro over the Site C project would appear to be on the slide again.

For the business people in the room at the Prince George Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Friday morning with Trevor Linden and Jim Benning of the Vancouver Canucks, it was a master class in what leadership and team building looks like.

I thought that I would take the opportunity this week to make some observations about the federal election debate. I have three points. First, I find the use of the term "the economy" problematic in political debate.

I have to take some exception to Todd Whitcombe's myopic view of Canadian politics and the Conservative government. In his column in The Citizen on Sept.

A few days ago a boy who was about 11 years-old approached me as sat outside Barkerville's St. George Hotel. "Excuse me," he said. "Is it true that the people from your time always wear black when someone dies? My teacher said you do.

What the hell's the matter with the person that made the decision to put that poor dying dog on the front page? You have upset many people by doing such a thoughtless act.