Opinion

Re: Adding to Kenneth Mason editorial and Don Zurowski 100,000 plan. Prince George has fallen along the wayside while other cities in B.C. have prospered in terms of population, beauty, park amenities, and business investment.

Neil Godbout has encouraged all of the contributors here at The Citizen to promote the "your vote matters" campaign.

All's well that ends well. Unless you're Nathan Cullen. The MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley and the NDP's finance critic in Parliament seems disappointed that the Russian cargo ship didn't run aground on Friday on Haida Gwaii.

A couple of days ago, I outed myself in the newsroom as not being fully up to speed on everything Monty Python. Sacrilegious, I know.

Our words are very powerful things. In the 1960s, a Grade 3 teacher in Iowa conducted an experiment with her class. She told them that brown-eyed people were smarter and more gifted than their blue-eyed counterparts.

Bill Shatford, who is 92 years old, was raised in Burnaby and Joyce Shatford, who is 91 years old, was raised in New Westminster. They met one another at a bible camp. Bill said, "Even though it was 70 years ago I remember it well.

"The price of oil will hit its floor and it will rise again," President Nicolas Maduro assured Venezuelans, whose shaky economy depends critically on a high oil price. "Venezuela will continue with its social plans. Venezuela will move forward.

Assume Petronas decides it can live with the final version of B.C.'s liquefied natural gas tax regime and pushes the green light on its massive LNG plant near Prince Rupert.

Two chemists squared off Saturday afternoon at a public forum to debate the merits of fluoridating the city's water.

After numerous deaths in vehicle accidents on Highway 16 this past winter, Minister Stone stated that Highway 16 would be upgraded from a Class B highway designation to a Class A by this winter with regards to snow removal and highway maintenance.