Opinion/Letters to the Editor

Again, apologies for the unscheduled hiatus. Despite Covid’s resurgence and the mess Our Dear Leader is making on his abusive GG’s lawn, things are getting busier up here in the nearly great white North.

In a legendary Saturday Night Live skit from 2000, Tracy Morgan parodied Aunt Jemima in a mock commercial, selling Uncle Jemima's Malt Liquor. "Lemme ask you a question - do you like drinkin’?" Morgan opened the skit. "Hell, you like drinkin’.

Bob Dick was born in Vernon in 1940. He graduated from Vernon High School in 1958 and then attended UBC where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1966.

One of the side effects of lock down during the COVID-19 pandemic is people have more time on their hands and have been engaging in bread making at home. Specifically, sourdough bread and sourdough starters.

The world recently said goodbye to lifetime civil rights activist and long-serving member of the United States House of Representatives, John Lewis.

If your business has survived or even thrived during the past few months you deserve congratulations.

Sorry seems to the hardest word, Elton John sung in one of his many classic songs from the 1970s. That might have been the case for Pierre Trudeau and spot on for U.S. President Donald Trump but it's completely wrong when it comes to Justin Trudeau.

Canadian Conservative Party members are marking their mail-in ballots to choose their candidate for the role of Prime Minister of Canada. More than 269,000 members, the highest number ever, will be deciding between four candidates.

During the 2015 trial of former SS guard Oskar Groening, the “Accountant of Auschwitz," Holocaust survivor Eva Kor forgave the man she was testifying against. The response to Kor’s statement was extremely varied.

Last week, we were talking about DNA analysis and barcoding. It has certainly moved the science of taxonomy forward by leaps and bounds. We now identify species on a molecular basis. But that is not all DNA analysis can do.