Opinion

“Did you know there’s an oil war? And the war has an objective: to destroy Russia,” said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a live television speech last week. “It’s a strategically planned war ...

I teach in the College and Career Prep (adult basic education) program at the College of New Caledonia, and it's a job I thoroughly enjoy.

There has always been a great deal of turmoil in the world, but there has also been amazing success. We have watched governments fail, but we have also seen consistent economic and population growth in countries like Canada.

I would like to take this opportunity as part one in a two part series to recap the names and a short memory of the many interesting subjects of my column throughout 2014.

I spent a day over my Christmas vacation (all four days of it) ensconced in a dark room. Migraine? Solitary confinement? No, movie theatre.

Trouble in the Middle East, terrorism, earthquakes, climate change, disasters, surgeries, health problems, early deaths, Ebola, Avian flu - does it ever end? We hope and pray for a better new year but is that realistic? The great teacher and prophet,

The provincial Liberal promise of vast riches to be harvested from fracked gas and LNG export has been shown to be a pipe dream. They needed something to divert the attention of our citizens from their invention.

Every year, after Christmas, I put off taking down my Christmas decorations for a few days.

New Year’s always seems to be a time for reminiscing about the year that has just passed and prognosticating about the year to come. Over the past few years, I have tried writing columns predicting the future. It never seems to work.

It’s easy to take a trip back in time with the Prince George newspapers digitization project, found online on the Prince George Public Library’s website at: http://pgnewspapers.lib.pg.bc.