Opinion

When I read last Friday's Citizen with "Disposal of the water fluoridation to cost city $200K, report says" story, I almost laughed, however it is not funny. I quote: "It will cost $140,000 to remove the 9,000 litres in the holding tanks.

There's something missing from the B.C. economic picture. A quarterly report released Tuesday shows enough generally positive indicators that the government continues to plan balanced budgets for the next three years.

Students of economic history learn about tulips.

Three centuries ago, the mathematician Blaise Pascal came up with an argument in favour of believing in the existence of God.

Fifteen years ago we hired a man to come in with a Cat to help us with some landscaping. An acre of dirt and a couple of big machines turned our little plot in to a 10,000 square foot sandbox for a few days.

Not all the gears mesh smoothly when they fire up the Elections Canada machine every few years. A Pender Island couple trekked all the way to Saanichton to vote a couple of weeks ago, but couldn't find the returning office.

Recent comments on the election campaign deserve some rebuttal. As a 45-year Citizen reader, I have found that Neil Godbout's editorials are very balanced, much better than previous editors. Ted Perry's Pravda titled letter (Sept.

Ever since Vancouver Canucks president Trevor Linden announced in Prince George earlier this year that the team would be coming, the third weekend of September has been circled in blue and green (red would be the Calgary Flames and nobody wants to se

I am writing in the hopes to remind everyone how important it is to vote.

Our experience began on June 25 at 2:30 a.m. when I called 911 because my husband became very ill after an earlier surgery. Emergency services were very quick to respond and my husband soon found himself undergoing emergency surgery.