It’s months like this that make me happy I’m not a parent, especially of a student just entering Grade 1. Think about all the questions […]
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BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Being a sports fan is interesting. There are certain teams and athletes to whom we willingly give the utmost […]
Sometimes things might be legal, but they just don’t feel right. A case in point is the Bear Lake Community Commission. The commission is made […]
In the newspaper business, there is always hell to pay. I often joked that if, in order to get that 2,000-word expose on the local […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Comedy is like any art form; some of it is brilliant, and some of it is dehumanizing. What we […]
Well, we now know that in Prince George, we will have choices to make in the municipal elections on October 15. By the time the […]
How did it become September already? I’m sure it was May just a couple of weeks ago. Since it has cooled off some in Prince […]
A musical question for you: What do the song This Time, Jane Fonda, Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, and a trucking magazine have in common? In one way […]
BY DR. BONNIE HENRY Provincial Health Officer VICTORIA – As the summer holidays draw to a close, many families are starting to think about their […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Perhaps the most essential key to happiness is to find meaning in our lives. What’s meaningful depends on who […]
For the first time in three years, CFIS radio was back at the B.C. Northern Exhibition on the weekend, and things didn’t go totally smoothly. […]
It’s being whispered in locker rooms all around the world. A good reputation gone bad. Canada – voted Miss Congeniality, and once thought to be […]
It’s funny how sometimes you’re thinking about something for really no reason, and then something else pops into your head and you wonder if there’s […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Self-development specialist Brian Tracy says, “People with clear, written goals accomplish far more in a shorter period of time […]
I did a fair bit of walking in the last week or so, and most of it was on the streets in my area or […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP The Liberal government continues to make empty promises and vague commitments while taking no real action to […]
I was enjoying a brunch recently when I saw a story on TV about smog covering a city in the U.S. So what, you might […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Given the criticisms of Critical Race Theory (CRT) on the far right of the political spectrum, I set out […]
Do you remember ‘Sohcahtoa’? How about ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge’? Or ‘Mom Visits Every Sunday, Just Stays Until Noon, Period’? These are all mnemonics […]
Kamal Khera, Minister of Seniors, said in a July 21, 2022 news release announcing a permanent, 10 per cent raise in old age pensions (OAP) […]
Editor: Snachaliya: In Dekelh, this translates to I am thankful for what you have done. Truer words have never been spoken. For over a year […]
And we think we’ve got problems. Not so much. Members of the animal kingdom, particularly its smallest creatures, like insects and rodents, can have it […]
It was 53 years ago today that Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon (assuming you’re reading this on Wednesday). That has very little to do […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Anger can be a powerful force for good. It can also be extremely destructive, both to ourselves and the […]
Editor: On behalf of the Alzheimer Society of B.C., I would like to extend my gratitude to the northern B.C. community for participating in the […]
Most people who know me would describe me as a cat person. That is true. But maybe they never heard about my dog, Wolf, a […]
One of things people say about the weather in Prince George (well, one of the things we can actually publish) is, “If you don’t like […]
I have decided to come out of hiding. First, because — at last — it is summertime in the Cariboo. Second, my weather watch phone […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning The city of Prince George recently decided to change the name of O’Grady Road to Dakelh Ti, meaning First […]
Darn … I was really looking forward to a John Horgan/Kevin Falcon dust-up during the next provincial election campaign. It would have been great. Horgan, […]
So we’re already basically halfway through 2022, and we’ve already seen more live events with full audiences in Prince George (and everywhere else) than we […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning For a number of years, I had been talking about becoming a vegetarian. I could see the health benefits […]
In the past week, I got a reasonable amount of walking in, despite the less-than-perfect weather. When I sat down Sunday morning, I started thinking […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning There is nothing wrong with being good in our chosen profession, but there is certainly much more to a […]
Two years of no Relay for Life has become three. This year, though, it wasn’t COVID-19 that cancelled the event set for Saturday. It was […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Many people in the political mainstream will say, “Even a broken clock is right twice a day” when they […]
I have a special role to fulfill on Saturday. I will be the Master of Ceremonies for the Relay for Life at Lac des Bois. […]
So MTV started in 1981 and that’s when singers started doing music videos, right? Wrong. There is a clip on YouTube that I like to […]
GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning There is nothing more significant in life than living with meaning. This is the concept pondered by the Jewish psychiatrist […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP It is well known that hunting in northern B.C. is a way of life for so many, […]
Last week, I had another birthday. I had one last year too, but they seem to be coming faster for some reason. A couple of […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Decolonization is a word we often hear in Canada today. In essence, it means to remove the colonial. That […]
BY CELINE LEE Across the country, Victims and Survivors of Crime Week 2022 will be observed May 15 to 21. Many of us assume that […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP Canada currently sits ranked in fifth place globally for natural gas production while our allies in Germany, Italy, Poland, and Japan […]
So last Friday was Friday the 13th. I left my apartment to do a few errands late in the morning, and a couple of black […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Fiction reveals the truth that reality obscures.” I admit I’ve never […]
I have managed to get a few short walks in over the past few days. I keep them short because there are usually menacing clouds […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ‘cancel culture’ as “the practice or tendency of engaging in mass cancelling as a way […]
I’m pretty sure I have written before about the problems drivers cause when they are (a) impatient and (b) don’t know (or care about) the […]
The Prince George Cougars came up just short in game two, falling 2-1 to the Portland Winterhawks at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. The Winterhawks […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning In recent months, words like genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes have been used extensively in the media. […]
War, in and of itself, is a crime. Or at least it should be. Images last week of the horrors in Bucha, Ukraine have shocked […]
Saturday, early afternoon, I leave my apartment and walk to the street next to it. I see my car across the street, and start to […]
By Peter Ewart, Alex Hemingway and Dawn Hemingway Northern British Columbia is a vast, rugged, mostly mountainous area roughly the size of France. In winter, […]
Been listening to a fair bit of music the last couple of week because the weather is just not nice enough to go out walking, […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning The papal apology to the Indigenous peoples of Canada on April 1 was an extraordinary moment for the individuals […]
When I am down, battle weary, and war fatigued from nauseating news stories: Ukraine invasions, pandemic updates, ever rising inflation rates – and with the […]
Reading Ted Clarke’s story in the Citizen last week about the epic Brier showdown between Ron Northcott and Kevin Smale brought back memories. We lived […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP What exactly is Bill S-233? What is a guaranteed level of basic income and why is it […]
So the Liberals and the NDP have teamed up to possibly ensure their political future … er, possibly ensure Canadians won’t go to the polls […]