Opinion

Time for Pacific Canada

Not meaning to be rude to all the good people of Quebec but apparently all you need to separate from Canada is an airline.

Mar 30, 2015 7:49 AM Read more >

Commission calls for more MLAs in Lower Mainland area

VICTORIA -- The electoral boundaries commission weighed in with a preliminary report Thursday that would add two more seats in the Lower Mainland, continuing a shift in voting power that also reflects population trends.

Mar 30, 2015 7:48 AM Read more >

Increasing the minimum

Q: In September B.C.'s minimum wage will increase 20 cents to $10.45 per hour. Could the City of Prince George impose a different minimum wage than the province, like several cities in the U.S. have done? A: In September, B.C.

Mar 30, 2015 7:47 AM Read more >

Entirely unrealistic

Having failed in his first editorial on the UNBC strike to demonstrate understanding of basic statistics, evidently Mr. Godbout decided to double-down in his latest, equally uninformed missive ("Failing grades...").

Mar 28, 2015 1:55 PM Read more >

Is politics broken?

Thursday morning as I was sitting having my coffee I was listening to CBC's Daybreak North. Just before 8 a.m.

Mar 28, 2015 1:55 PM Read more >

Town and country

Residents of Calgary and Toronto can tell if you're from Calgary or Toronto just by the way you say Calgary or Toronto. The Globe and Mail published an interesting feature last month on Canadian shibboleths.

Mar 28, 2015 1:54 PM Read more >

Moment of truth

The last time the Prince George Cougars were in the playoffs, they were knocked out in the minimum four games by the Kelowna Rockets, a team that included P.G. product Brett Bulmer and current NHL star Tyson Barrie.

Mar 27, 2015 8:53 AM Read more >

Turn back to science

It's time to start trusting science again. Let's start in the twentieth century. It was a time where bacterial and viral infections were simply devastating for whomever had the misfortune of contracting them.

Mar 27, 2015 8:42 AM Read more >

The case for activism

Political lobbying by the Canadian Cancer Society resulted in public-smoking bans. The "political" agitation of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving forced lawmakers to get serious about that cause, too.

Mar 27, 2015 8:38 AM Read more >

Gong Show

Somebody revive Chuck Barris. Everything that has happened since the deadly explosions destroyed the Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake and the Lakeland Mills facility in Prince George in 2012 has been a gong show.

Mar 27, 2015 8:37 AM Read more >