Opinion

Last week I picked up a hitchhiker. This in itself was not abnormal. When I was living outside of Vanderhoof, I would often give rides to people from Stoney Creek on my way to town. The abnormal thing was it was a young woman, probably around 18 years old, and she was First Nations. It was just outside of Prince George, and the young woman, named Darcy, was going to Terrace. She had come all the way from Vernon.

Christy Clark can now officially, at least in the minds of British Columbians, run the province.

Online discussion could stir up some interest in the election

VICTORIA – Even if movies based on video games aren’t your cup of tea, the recent Disney production Tron: Legacy is notable as a measure of the sophistication of the B.C. motion picture industry.

Something incredible happened last week during the national leadership debate on CBC. Something, I feel, almost miraculous. Leaders did not refrain from telling untruths (Mr. Harper, are you worried you would seem hypocritical by admitting to the backroom deal you were a part of in 2004 with the Bloc and the NDP when the LIberals were in power now that you are spending millions on attack ads building fears of opposition parties forming a coallition? You are right, you would).

Now, while humans are, strictly speaking, members of the same species, we come from a wide range of ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations and different physical and mental makeups.