Opinion

Are we or aren’t we headed for another global recession?

This week I had the pleasure of making a very significant announcement for our region.

It is sad news that federal NDP leader Jack Layton passed away Monday morning.

Editor: We’ve been hearing a lot of concern about smart meters recently from communities like Williams Lake.

He would never quite admit it, but former premier Gordon Campbell’s push for self-sufficiency in clean electricity has always looked to me like a long-term strategy to export hydroelectric power. It still looks that way

In the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding the father is convinced that Windex fixes everything from psoriasis to poison ivy to bruises to the common zit. Whenever an ailment arises he says with great conviction, “Put some Windex on it.”

“If there is something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call?”

Editor: I’m a teenager living in Williams Lake who was arrested a few months ago for possession of a prohibited weapon near a high school and private properties.

One of the most interesting outcomes of the HST referendum has little to do with taxes and fiscal policy: the participation rate in the referendum.

August is sometimes seen as a “summer doldrums” period, but such has not been the case on world economic markets, with stock markets in free fall, commodity prices falling and the U.S. credit rating being downgraded for the first time in history.