Opinion

"Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, had a wife but couldn't keep her," goes the old nursery rhyme. Often, the line is now said as "cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater...

I was sad to read the recent story of another missing woman in Prince George, Genny Lee Paquette. I felt compelled to send a letter to the editor to offer my observations.

Unlike the Senate, the B.C. government has clear rules about what can and cannot be claimed on expense accounts, or when and how much outside contractors and suppliers can be paid.

A recent letter to the editor asked why people are obsessed with the Mike Duffy affair. After all, the writer surmised, it was just one generous friend helping out another.

Last week, a small delegation of players from Prince George went to the World Handball Championships in Calgary.In all, I believe there were about eight players in the tournament either from or formerly from Prince George - in a world tournament.

Seems recently as I drive around town there are election signs everywhere. However as I have been driving and noticing these signs I have noticed they are all Conservative signs. So this got me thinking.

If one pays attention to the news, it is impossible to avoid hearing over and over that Mike Duffy is on trial for falsifying $90,000 in expenses. If that was what this trial was all about, most of us would agree with the proceedings.

This month marks the one-year anniversary of the Mount Polley tailings dam failure, Canada's worst mining disaster.

The controversy at UBC over the abrupt departure this week of its president, in the first year of a five-year term, points to a pervasive culture that has taken over higher learning in Canada and is alive and well at UNBC.

The little red single-cab Datsun pickup I camped in as a youth seems modest in retrospect, but was luxurious compared to what my older siblings went out in. The camping vehicle of choice for them was a tiny little Volkswagen Beetle.