Opinion

This year, 2014, is the year that I have officially been driving for half of my life. Throughout these past 16 years, I have been incredibly fortunate that I have not had a serious accident.

It's a slow process, this business of getting recognized as an independent state, but the Palestinians are making progress.

Last week was very tragic in regards to the loss of human lives in Prince George.

I admit it. I watch the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on a regular basis. Yes, it covers American news from an American perspective while only making occasional makes reference to Canada.

Last week U2 frontman Bono apologized for partnering with iTunes to have their latest album, Songs of Innocence, download automatically to about 500 million iTunes account holders. The automatic, free downtown happened on Sept.

These past weeks I've had the pleasure of trying these three wines. Two good red wines whose grapes have become icons of their regions and a white wine that is a massive blend from a region most famous for their Amarone and Valpolicella wines.

Gardening is moving indoors and you can bring a little bit of the outdoors, indoors, by forcing bulbs.

In my mind there is no more important function of government than the collection and distribution of taxes. Too often we hear of government waste but for the most part their intentions are good.

I have written before in this column about the way that social media has impacted politics including a discussion of the way that we get our news i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc.

This is an edited version of a column that first appeared in the May 28, 2004 edition of the Citizen: In The Citizen newsroom, as in every newsroom, a group of journalists converge each day to offer readers the most complete package of news we can pr