Opinion

After reading the editorial by Neil Godbout on the IPG dismissal, some B.C. history came to mind. With the list of qualified business people, their history, accomplishments, and successful ventures, they were dismissed.

There are people in your life that come and go. Some are just passing through, others come back like the slowest boomerang ever.

Thirty-five years ago I graduated from minor hockey a few dozen levels shy of my dream to play in the NHL, and slid in to my first men's league team.

2015 has proven to be an exciting year for the City of Prince George. The Canada Winter Games opened the year with a bang, and festivities are ongoing to celebrate the city's centenary.

It was from her grandfather that Joye Walkus learned her first words of Kwak'wala. Colours. Facial features. How to count to 10. "I knew the names of the fingers on my hand," the Port Hardy woman says.

Let's remember, let's move forward, and let's celebrate! The citizens of Prince George are a hardworking, progressive, and generous people who deserve to celebrate all that decades of volunteerism, teamwork, and creativity have brought us in the 100

Last week, Loblaws president Galen Weston announced the company is discontinuing the use of triclosan, phthalates and microbeads in the household and cosmetic products it manufacturers. This is a move to be applauded at one level.

Bob Zimmer, I have yet to receive your reply to my letter of 25 May this year. Perhaps my letter or your reply has been lost in Canada's deteriorating postal system.

Harry Yates is right. British Columbia should be renamed. The Prime Minister should be forced to apologize to all people of Irish descent for allowing the potato famine to take place.

It's OK for your editor to wax loud from a "bully pulpit" about abolishing English names from public places. Make people feel good? No, it does not. It pits one group of Canadians against another. Canada is fairly calm racially.