Opinion

In his recent editorial, The Citizen's Neil Godbout claims that when artists stand up for their legal rights, they risk putting themselves and other artists in financial peril.

Last week, I promised a series analyzing the positive and negative characteristics of each of the main federal parties.

Like we do with guns, we romanticize automobiles. Both are deadly weapons in the wrong hands, but we prefer to dwell on their design, their power and their physical presence.

I couldn't disagree more with your editorial slight on the local artist who is standing up for her work. The fact that you have already tried and convicted her before the facts have been heard by a judge is wrong in every way.

I believe Jennifer Pighin is out of line in suing the games and the dealerships. Through them she got major exposure and attention and now she wants to sue them. That is not right.

I saw the articles in the Monday, May 25 paper today about GMO foods and Monsanto and have a few comments.

Highway of Tears, the Matt Smiley-directed documentary about the missing and murdered women along Highway 16 and across central and northern B.C., is a beautiful and tragic film, showcasing strength and perseverance, as well as grief and loss.

Lightning flashed over Victoria on Friday, but I sacrificed a goat and it went away.

Recently I met many of the members of the Good Cheer Club at their semi-annual fundraising garage sale.

The great English writer William Shakespeare tells us, "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." In other words, we determine our own success, it has nothing to do with luck.