Opinion

This week Canada's provincial and territorial leaders met in Newfoundland at the annual premiers' meeting. The meeting is usually collegial but this week there were obvious tensions.

A beef and a bouquet. The bouquet goes to whomever yarn bombed the giant elm tree in front of city hall. It made me exclaim out loud and laugh with joy as I was going in to pay my property taxes. Thank you. The beef goes to the Citizen.

The slippery rhetoric of bigotry and extreme views often incorporates specious arguments and Nathan Giede's opinion piece (Unable to fully embrace, July 15) is a perfect example of this.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong cut straight to the bottom line in releasing the public accounts Wednesday, announcing B.C. was "firmly back in the black," after a string of budgets that were either in deficit or balanced on a razor's edge.

This week featured Major League Baseball's All Star game and Home Run Derby. Baseball is a very simple game about pitching and hitting. Good pitching can make batting the ball an almost impossible task.

The obvious lack of rain is prompting the immediate problems with wildfires around B.C. But a longer-term issue is the lack of snow.

Thank you for printing the CP story about the dire effects that climate change is having on bumble bees around the world (Friday, July 10 issue).

Families, local and visiting this summer, please be reminded that we have the beautiful Little Prince to entertain you and your children every weekend.

On the hot summer days of my childhood in North Vancouver, often my friends and I would take the 20 minute walk to the forested trails of Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge.

Dear editor, From our great rivers to our soaring peaks, Canada's rugged natural beauty has instilled a love of the outdoors across generations of Canadians.