Opinion

Since the middle of May, this space has been used each Thursday to discuss the upcoming municipal election on Nov. 15 and to offer various good reasons to vote and improve upon the paltry 28.5 per cent voter turnout seen in Prince George in 2011.

I wrote this a while ago, but it is worth repeating. There is a children's rhyme about what little boys and girls are made of. I always took exception because we had a "tail-less" dog and my siblings teased me about where the tail went.

Can a government be held accountable if its industry regulators don't treat applicants fairly? And should a court-ordered remedy for any proven case of unfairness include shelling out millions, maybe even billions, of dollars in compensation? These a

When you hear this name: Taylor Swift, do you think ditzy, scattered, silly girl? Me neither. OK, maybe I did think that. Then I decided to check out her latest hit, sitting at No. 2 on the Billboard list called Shake It Off.

We are regular attendees at the city pools and we are deeply concerned to hear that there will be even less daily maintenance and care of these facilities. It matters to us that people have lost their jobs too.

Tell me again it's all about the children. All parents have been patiently waiting for our children to return to school. Hearing repeatedly "its all about the children's education". So the time has come and school has started.

Netflix has told the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, otherwise known as the CRTC, what people have been saying for years: you have been weighed, measured, and found redundant.

The prospect of Enbridge building Northern Gateway across northern B.C. is about to face an adversary far more formidable than angry environmentalists, feisty First Nations and Premier Christy "five conditions or forget it" Clark.

VICTORIA -- As reporter Gordon Hoekstra tells it, he was marking time for a flight out of Williams Lake earlier this month and he decided to see what the regional library had on file about the troubled Mount Polley mine.

As I discovered this past weekend, weddings are nostalgic affairs. Sure, the whole idea is to celebrate the future of the pair entering into that crazy covenant, but as I was writing a speech to deliver at the reception, I had to delve into the past.