Opinion

Grace Smith's letter in the Tuesday, April 7th Citizen should be a wakeup call to everyone in Prince George and surrounding areas.

I really didn't want to write about the ongoing trial of Mike Duffy. In fact, there are a host of more important topics that need addressing these days, both in news and in policy.

Racialization doesn't mean the same thing as racist, despite what Stewart Phillip, Grand Chief of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, may think.

Dear College of New Caledonia Board of Governors: Upon hearing about the decision to close the Dental Assisting and Dental Hygienist programs at CNC, I felt you should be aware of the impact such programs have had on our northern communities.

I recently saw one of the people I most admire in the world speak to a group of university students. This caused me to reflect on what it is about this person that makes him great.

Myra (Wright) Nadeau was born in 1933 in Whangarei, New Zealand; a northern city by the sea and about 80 km north of Auckland. Her husband, Glen Nadeau was born in Quesnel in 1929.

"Even now, a sensation, especially a smell, can send me back," Romeo Dallaire writes in the introduction to his book They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children.

Picture yourself as a politician in the hours after a ship fouls Vancouver's English Bay with oil. Nobody is very clear about the circumstances or the details.

I grew up and went to school in Prince George thinking that feminism was largely irrelevant to my everyday life. In high school, we would learn about how and when (white) women fought for and won the right to vote.

As a follow-up to Frank Peebles front-page news article in last Thursday's Citizen, I would like to expand on the PGSO's vision for a sustainable future, a vision hammered out through a strategic planning process which took place from December to Feb