Opinion

Opinion polls can't be counted on to reliably predict election results, that is for certain, but that doesn't mean they should be thrown out entirely. Defenders of political polls like to talk about them as snapshots of the electorate.

We all have dreams and amazing, creative ideas going through our heads every day. What is the greatest factor in determining whether or not these ideas become a reality? We are.

My column today is quite different than my usual column about people; today the column is about an event and specifically about the Prince George senior secondary school (PGSS) 50 - 55th Year Reunion.

For years my pet peeve has been drivers on the Hart Highway who, still to today, either don't care about the "Keep Right Except To Pass" signs posted up and down the highway or they choose to ignore them, which is really one in the same.

Re: "Life may have had an inorganic origin," July 2 article by Todd Whitcombe. With reference to the Urey/Miller experiment as being "...a very simple, straightforward demonstration synthesized in a lab...

Toodling along Central Saanich Road last week, I spied a couple of white plastic lawn chairs at the opposite ends of a bus stop. They faced slightly away from each other, as though they had just had a tiff and were no longer on speaking terms.

The biggest debate that runs through the philosophy of art is about authenticity.

With all the controversial information put out by B.C. Hydro, the B.C. government and others on the need for Site C, one wonders how any individual in BC could possibly know what is taking place.

When my long-suffering father was teaching me how to drive, we spent a lot of time crying (me) and sighing (him). It was a time of great angst and disappointment.

The world has changed a lot over the last five decades. I picked five decades as a length of time because it is how long I have been alive but it also takes us from the 1960s to now. It is a length of time that has seen the world's population double.