Opinion

Editor: Buying my daily newspaper now costs me an additional $60 per year thanks to the HST.

Editor: People buy insurance to protect themselves when things are not good or get worse.

I’ve had a very animal-filled day. With horses, sheep, chickens, dogs and a cat you could say every day is animal filled around here, but this day was more about wildlife than the domestic type.

Editor: We have heard a lot of talk about the downside of the HST. I want to share what the impact of the HST is on our company — an impact shared by others throughout the industry.

Editor: In MLA Donna Barnett’s response to the B.C. Federation of Labour’s efforts to ensure British Columbians have the real facts on the HST, she repeats her government’s manufactured and absolutely false “facts.”

Editor: I was not happy to read about Williams Lake City Council and the zone amendment bylaw readings to regulate the place of metal shipping containers in the city.

Wouldn’t it be great if your clothes were made from biomass rather than petrochemicals? How about cosmetics coloured by nano-chemicals from trees rather than toxic dyes?

A recent report from the Northwest Institute serves to compare the B.C. environmental review process with that of the federal government.

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The recent terrorist attacks in Norway, which killed close to 100 people, mostly youth, sends the message that peaceful countries are not immune to terrorist attacks, and not all attackers are Muslim terrorists.