Opinion

My daughter is in her final undergraduate semester at UNBC. My wife and I had expected to be excited and proud in equal measure, as had she. Instead, we are disappointed at UNBC's administration and staff for failing her and her classmates.

I'm not one to often quote my mother.

Normally, amendments to the city's zoning bylaws are just passed with no debate or discussions by the time they make their way to the city council table.

It is said that what we put out in life comes back to us. If we do good, good comes back to us, and if we do bad, suffering comes our way.

Harold Moore was born in Bancroft, Ontario in 1927, the third oldest out of nine siblings. His mother Mary (Mills) Moore was born in Scotland and his father Lawrence was a hard working family man who worked a farm in Ontario.

I was seriously concerned to learn that the College of New Caledonia is considering suspending and/or severely limiting counselling services for students at several of its campuses.

My mother has worked for the same company for nine years and I, her daughter, convinced her to quit. She applied for EI and has been denied because she quit.

Every time I visit UBC and see all those cranes relentlessly lifting new academic buildings into place, I wonder, "Why do they need all these buildings? Why do students keep coming out here, paying ever-higher tuition fees, when they could stay home

The longer the UNBC faculty strike goes on, the more it looks like last year's strike by public school teachers. That's a bad omen for anxious students looking to still salvage what's left of the Winter 2015 semester.

To start off the new year and the January semester, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness. It came as a huge shock, because no one in my family has this disease and I was a healthy, fit, 22 year old.