Opinion

The year after I was born, the world's population busted through the three billion barrier. If you type in the "world population clock" in Google, we now have more than 7.

St. Patrick's Day, the celebration of all things Irish, was last week, and Ireland has a long and proud musical tradition.

Shalom from Israel to the readership of the Prince George Citizen. I was very gratified to read Mr. Peebles' comments on the longtime involvement of my brother, Norman Dale of Prince George, in the fight for the rights of First Nations.

I was pleased to see coverage of the child care and education crisis in Thursday's paper. However, I have to take issue with a comment in the article.

The news of proposed cuts to counselling departments throughout CNC has me concerned for all current and future students. I am a CNC instructor where I teach in the social services program.

I am writing in response to the recent announcement of the suspension of the dental programs at the College of New Caledonia. As a former student of both the dental assisting and dental hygiene programs I was shocked to hear the news.

We, the Northern British Columbia Dental Hygienists Society, are writing this letter in response to the CNC executive's recommendation to suspend the dental assisting and dental hygiene programs.

Your March 18 letter regarding your mother's nine-year ongoing workplace harassment is profound.

Faced with a $2.8 million budget shortfall, the College of New Caledonia and its new president, Henry Reiser, are faced with some excruciating decisons to cut staff, programs and services to balance the books.

A government-run investment fund is pretty open about what it's doing with about $80 million raised from an immigrant investment program. But any reports on how the B.C. Renaissance Capital Fund is actually performing seem to be behind closed doors.