Opinion

Recently Western Forest Products on Vancouver Island announced that they are indefinitely curtailing their operation at Ladysmith sawmill. This follows on the heels of an earlier announcement this year of a closure at their Nanaimo mill.

For some strange reason, the passing of the calendar from one year to the next leads reminiscence about the year just past - prompting us to promises and predictions for the year to come.

With Christmas over, the new year is only days away. New Year's Eve and New Year's Day mark the rebirth of the year -a time when when people make resolutions to improve and change themselves, even if it is just "Oww..

A recent letter to the editor praised the conservative views of Nathan Giede expressed in his weekly column, as the writer felt Nathan stood up to what he called “an overwhelming liberal media bias.

Imagine being in senior management at a wealthy multinational corporation that has seen better days but still enjoys global reach.

In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun, saying that some of her friends told her there is no Santa Claus.

Belief systems are interesting from a scientific perspective. Why do we believe things? What should we believe? Where do beliefs come from? The answer is “we don’t really know” but we do know that our beliefs are powerful.

In honor of the Saviour’s birth, I present to you Christmas for Progressives, a new annual tradition where I charitably advise progressives how to grow up, better face the world, and, even help their parties and policies go from laughable to respecta

I would just like to thank all the citizens of Prince George for their amazing support of this year's BC Ambulance food drive "The Red and White Hunger Fight". This year's efforts filled 275 banana boxes full of food to support St.