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OPINION: Coping with brain injury in a crazy world

OPINION: Coping with brain injury in a crazy world

Don't make excuses for anti-masker's bad behaviour, columnist says
OPINION: Who is running School District 57?

OPINION: Who is running School District 57?

Who is really running the show at School District 57, columnist Trudy Klassen questions
OPINION: Happiness is the key to success

OPINION: Happiness is the key to success

Do what is important to you, and success will follow, columnist Gerry Chidiac says
OPINION: Heavy summer, fall harvest for Indigenous Canada

OPINION: Heavy summer, fall harvest for Indigenous Canada

UNBC First Nations Studies assistant professor weighs in on how Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians can move forward
Opinion: Pick up fall fruit and save the bears

Opinion: Pick up fall fruit and save the bears

Please, I beg of you, if you are not going to harvest and eat them, please pick them off the tree and the ground, and dispose of them.
Opinion: No credible Liberal candidate in Skeena-Bulkley Valley

Opinion: No credible Liberal candidate in Skeena-Bulkley Valley

Justin Trudeau exhibits disdain to me by his failure to find a credible candidate for a large diverse riding that makes huge economic contributions to Canada.
RVing 101: Camping in the middle of nowhere

RVing 101: Camping in the middle of nowhere

Our favourite kind of camping is to find ourselves in a desert for a couple of months at a stretch, enjoying intensely quiet surroundings with no neighbours.
Opinion: Faking it won’t make it

Opinion: Faking it won’t make it

"Fake it until you make it", "mind over matter" and "be more  positive" are words of encouragement I hear often from well-intentioned people. I have tried my best to live up to these expectations. This advice can work against a person with a brain injury.
Opinion: Keep the minority

Opinion: Keep the minority

An arrogant and self-centred decision was made by our current federal government to call an expensive (est. $500 -$700 million) election. We, as taxpayers and voters, must ensure it does not result in a majority government.
Opinion: Freedom comes with responsibilities

Opinion: Freedom comes with responsibilities

Many feel it is a violation of their freedom if they are required to be immunized.  Such thinking contradicts an important life principle, made clear by Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl: “Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.”