Opinion/Letters to the Editor

Even after a decade or so, it is awe-inspiring to witness the heights of audacity to which the B.C. Liberals soar. Last Wednesday provided another suitably stratospheric example.

Previously, Caribou Joe learns how horse-legging is done in a bush operation at Tete Jaune Cache, and as he moves further up the hillside, discovers big footprints in the snow. In 1955 there was a Sasquatch sighting at Tte Jaune Cache.

In the previous episode, Caribou Joe awakes in a strange bed and the terrible smell of toe-rags that are hung up to dry by a stove. For the first few weeks of 1913 the snow fall left a two foot deep white blanket covering the Tte Jaune Cache area.

We get some silly photos on our wire service, and none was funnier than the chap in the Lower Mainland who tried to squash a full-sized fridge into the trunk of his Honda Accord.

It seems the NIMBYs around Haldi Road got the wind knocked out of their fight yesterday as proponents blew away the main concern over the women's recovery centre by announcing they'd truck in their own darn water.

If you're mad at the price you're paying at the pump, I have a solution for you. Buy a share or more of Husky Energy. Become a part owner and receive a five per cent dividend yield, which is much better than a savings account at the bank.

A former Prince George addict and dealer gave some insight into the city's drug world and the personality of the victim of a drug-related shooting death during testimony Monday in the first-degree murder trial of Jesse Norman Sweder.

I read with interest the letters on the price of gas in Prince George. I think the only way to fight this is to target one supplier, and don't buy any fuel from them for as long as it takes to drop their prices.

The other day, I typed "job creation" into Google just for the fun of it. It is interesting what comes back. Most of it is "free market" rhetoric in keeping with the dominant philosophy in the United States right now.

On first impression, Premier Christy Clark's jobs plan is quite original in that no goal for actual job creation has been set. This move could be viewed as a cop out since no promises mean no accountability.