Opinion/Letters to the Editor

Apparently young people don't want to vote. Well if there ever was a time for them to start paying attention it's now. It's a fact that Canada takes in less in tax than it spends and makes up the difference by borrowing.

This week is National Volunteer Week in Canada, with the theme of Volunteers: Passion. Action. Impact. Volunteers in Prince George, and indeed across the country, are being celebrated.

For too long, the City of Prince George has been putting the health of its citizens at risk. There is considerable scientific evidence that warrants a precautionary approach to pesticide use.

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The History Channel was advertising a television show recently entitled the The Kennedys. The commercial for it had Joseph Kennedy telling his sons: "It is not what you are that matters. It is what people think you are.

No buts (or butts) about it: Arizona's governor is going after smokers and the overweight. Jan Brewer wants to charge $50 a year to recipients of Medicaid - the state's health-care plan for the poor - who don't follow a weight-loss plan.

A couple of years ago I was on one of my editorial green rants - probably in support of Gordon Campbell's carbon tax - when one of the newsroom wags sent me an e-mail asking if I was being held captive in David Suzuki's basement.

P.G. teacher-librarians, with support from P.G. Public Library and retired teachers, are holding the 13th Annual Battle of the Books on Friday, April 15 at Ecole Lac de Bois.

Did anyone find the BC Assessment figures for 2010 to be way out to lunch? I did. In the Pinewood Neighborhood, all properties went up by about 20 per cent from 2009.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls This is a memoir detailing the author's childhood, growing up in extreme poverty and neglect with her eccentric parents and three siblings.