Opinion

Put down the credit card and pick up some scissors, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's best suggestion for Ottawa.

Seventy years ago, about 200 Doukhobor children were snatched from their homes and confined for several years in a remote institution in the Kootenays

“Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequence could be second only to a global nuclear war.”

Whomever holds less power in a relationship is the victim, which makes whoever holds more power the oppressor.

For the first time in 50 years, the Conservative Party of B.C. had two MLAs in the house, and their hawkish views have people literally rolling their eyes at times.

Many studies have confirmed that the currently known world fossil fuel reserves will be used up in 53 years (oil in 50 years, natural gas in 53 years and coal in 14 years) if the annual demand does not change.

Here’s my view on vehicle options, past and present, that were booms or busts

Would we really invest $266 million in public funds to create a single job at a billionaire’s hydrogen plant? 

Backed by a workforce of 3,900 shipbuilders, we are now a major employer and economic engine for our province and our country.

Either the government’s economic analysts are pessimistic to the point of hopelessness, or the NDP is vastly overselling the effect of the zoning and building bonanza it is trying to create