Opinion

If governments were to put human development at the centre of their policies, how might things change? A good place to start is with Maslow's Hierarchy.

Closed door meetings, whether at home between spouses or a parent having "the talk" with their child, or in the workplace between a manager or supervisor and an employee, attract attention and suspicion.

One of the more interesting notions that permeates various portions of the media is that we were either much healthier in the "good ol' days" than we are now - or much worse. These two sentiments show up in a variety of ways.

Duck Lake, 1975. In order to make the exercise of trying a new fishing spot more certain, my brother left little to chance this time.

Regardless of one's feelings towards the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, all of Prince George should mourn the loss of Janet Holder.

The election is still seven weeks away and already Canadian voters have been thrown so far down the rabbit hole into Wonderland by the major political party leaders that down is up and everyone is running to stand still, as confused as poor Alice was

Thank you Jack Paul and Evelyn Rebman. I agree with you this legislation presents a real problem for those who believe this pertains to residential streets as the editor stated the wording is on highways with a speed limit of 80 km/h or more.

Finally, the managing editor has removed all doubt as to The Citizen's political bias with today's editorial "Harper big talk, no substance." For the past year or so, I have noticed a gradual creep to the left in his editorials.

She was bent over at the end of the driveway, digging ferociously with a trowel. "I found another one. These things are sprouting like crazy. I thought we wiped them out four years ago." I nodded soberly. "Must be the rain. I miss the drought.

If humanity is guided by a universal set of moral principles, why do we need rules and laws? If everyone just did what they knew was right, everything would be perfect. This is certainly a utopian world view.