Opinion/Letters to the Editor

When teaching history, it is rare that an issue more than 100 years old becomes a current events lesson, but that is what happened as I began teaching about the Armenian genocide.

Doreen (Stone) McFarlane, one of four children was born in Vermillion, Alta in 1933. She was raised on a farm and attended the local country school then completed Grade 12 in Vermillion.

I feel old. For the second time in a month I have pulled a muscle in my back leaving me sore, stiff and walking like an old man.

“Giant steps are what you take … walking on the moon.” Or so sang the Police in 1979. Of course, now they might sing “splashing on the moon.” Not really. Last week, NASA confirmed for the first time the presence of water on the sunlit lunar surface.

Honest debate is critical to any healthy democracy. I do not fault political rivals for formulating arguments that support their causes and counter those that their opponents offer.

Let’s have some morbid Halloween fun. In 1963, Philip K. Dick wrote The Man In The High Castle, a book set in a world where Germany and Japan won the Second World War and the United States has been divided between those two world superpowers.

Many residents have taken to social media to express their outrage over Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP Bob Zimmer’s vote on Wednesday in the House of Commons against the bill to ban conversion therapy.

They say that time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed by will never pass again.

Look! Squirrel! My brain injury has significantly impacted my focus and concentration. An attempt at planning and organizing my day in a timely and orderly manner is like expecting to win the lottery.

It is quite disturbing to learn that someone in the same profession was murdered while walking home from work. Samuel Paty, a person who taught a curriculum similar to my own, was beheaded by an extremist outside of Paris on Oct. 16.