Opinion

Today's Citizen features stories on not just one but two developments that have left many residents gossiping all year long.

VICTORIA -- Teachers' union president Jim Iker must feel an overwhelming sense of relief this week, and not only because he is free to return home to such preferred pursuits as old timer's hockey and chopping wood on his acreage in the hamlet of Topl

A citizen is a rare thing these days in Canada. Citizens have been expunged from the political lexicon and replaced with taxpayers and, as elections approach, voters. Decrying the loss of a word may seem a bit pedantic. But words are powerful.

Recently in Barkerville a friend of mine (who plays Mrs. Bowron, a Barkerville schoolteacher) was contemplating a moth she had recently rescued in the schoolhouse.

Re: Robin's Choice As a Mental Health practioner with 40 years of experience I felt compelled to respond to Mr. Godbout's editorial comment following the tragic death of Robin Williams.

It's curious how little the details matter, after months of agonizing about every comma that's on the table in the teachers' negotiations. Everything pales in comparison to the fact that there's a tentative deal that will likely end the strike.

Coun, Brian Skakun was right. He wasn't completely right, but he was mostly right, about the snow removal problem last December and January.

I have been fortunate enough to watch several businesses change hands over the years, both in my career as a banker, and more recently as an investment advisor.

I see now that we have the Blue Box program, we are to put waste paper in one box and cans in another. I return all containers that have a deposit attached to the local depot.

As Jim Prentice campaigned to be Alberta's next premier last June, he touted himself as the best candidate to help build Enbridge's controversial Northern Gateway pipeline project.