Opinion

As we celebrate Canada Day Sunday, here is a thought worth pondering. How many British Columbians can say they have visited all 10 provinces? How many of us have been to the Yukon, Northwest Territories or Nunavut? The obstacles are obvious.

Contrary to the opinions of most non-Canadians, our citizens can be loud, proud and patriotic. The polite and welcoming nature waiting for visitors is not false advertising, and being humble, from our perspective, is a virtue, not a weakness.

What do you think former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper is up to?

After some of the 40 or so protesters at our "We Need A Law" event on Saturday began tromping on our flags and pulling them out of the ground, the Powell River Pro-Life president approached a woman and her son to say we didn't want the flags pulled u

Kids running barefoot through grassy meadows and sandy beaches, with dirt on their faces and half-dead butterflies clasped between their tiny hands.

Comments are being made that our ways of electing MLAs and MPs should be changed [“Counterpoint: Citizens versus political parties,” June 22]. This is complete hogwash.

It’s not as big a deal as it appears at first glance, but some pipeline news Tuesday suggests the rebirth of the LNG dream is still underway. No one has delivered yet, but it’s in active labour.

I read the recent anti-abortion event article with amusement [“City responds to anti-abortion event at Willingdon Beach,” June 22]. I think the pro-life number of abortions in Canada per year come under the heading of facts made up on the spot.

The government is giving away $1 million to voting-system partisans. Chief electoral officer Anton Boegman has the authority to divide that amount evenly between two camps that will campaign in the fall referendum on whether to change B.C.

Back in early 1972, I started with Powell River company as a employee. All the paper machines were running except numbers one and two. I started casual on the paper machines and all over the mill, then went to the woodmill.