Opinion

One story which hasn’t made much of a ripple is the act of civil disobedience by Senate page Brigette DePape, and I am not sure why.

Opponents of the HST can't seem to resist making the tax sound worse than it really is.

The Tourism Industry Association of B.C. has struggled with the impact of the harmonized sales tax, but supports it at a reduced rate.

There are definitely times when being rural is a good thing.

Recently I was approached by a business owner in Vanderhoof who felt that a story I had printed some months ago had damaged his business. The story had not painted a particularly positive picture but he claimed that the problems on which I had reported were not the fault of either him or his staff and that I should not therefore have printed the name of the business in the story, leading he says, to loss of customers.

I used to bike to work.

This letter is in response to the article that appeared in last week’s paper entitled “Boat access only” which described the flooding of Sowchea Creek, and the effect on the residents in the area.