Opinion

I have been following the latest education funding cuts at the College of New Caledonia with interest and dismay.

Re: Echoes of the Red Scare, Todd Whitcombe, April 4, 2015. What an interesting comparison between McCarthysm and the Red Scare to today's anti-terror sentiment in Canada today.

There's a name that looms large in the Mike Duffy scandal that doesn't appear on the witness list at the suspended senator's blockbuster fraud trial.

There is a lesson for British Columbia and for the rest of Canada in the sad story that is Alberta.

Following up on last week's column, a recent pictorial on cancer in Nature made the statement: "Despite a huge amount of funding and research, regional and individual differences in cancer trends make it a hard disease to wipe out.

My mother-in-law grew up on a family farm in Wales. Uncharacteristic, as far as farm life goes, she described her early years as pampered and storybook.

Approximately six months ago the federal government voted to send troops to train Iranian fighters in Iran. The instructions for these troops were that they were to be out of harm's way behind friendly lines.

There has been a letter to the editor forming in my mind ever since I read an article in the Vancouver Sun last weekend. It was entitled "Upending public education's pillars.

Part two of a two-part series The federal special adviser's report on the abysmal rate of progress in negotiating First Nations treaties considered the idea of matching the B.C. Treaty Commission with a national one as a way to spur some action.

Thanks to all of the residents and readers for the emails, calls and visits regarding the Mystery of the Missing First Edition, the Citizen's efforts to locate a copy of its missing first edition from 1916.