I would never try to rewrite a Beatles song, but last week I had a reason to slightly modify one. You see, I had a […]
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Things that don’t make sense … or do they? Since Elon Musk took over Twitter he has talked about free speech, among other things. It’s […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Whether or not the leaders in North America and Western Europe are listening, something significant is happening all around […]
I’m having trouble writing this column because I can hardly see the computer screen through the smoke. OK, that may be a slight exaggeration, but […]
It is a question which has occupied the minds of many of the great thinkers of the English world. Why do we drive on a […]
How is it May already? I mean, OK, it is starting to look a lot more like spring the last few days (I put my […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Thirty years ago, I went to Kinshasa, the capital of Zaïre (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) on […]
Last Wednesday, I saw one of those moments on the road where you have to wonder what the driver was thinking. I was headed east […]
“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” […]
I know that ornithophobia is the fear of birds. What I want to know is if there is a word for the hatred of birds. […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning The concept of a Doctrine of Discovery came into the consciousness of many people during the Pope’s visit to […]
Over the last couple of years, I picked up a couple of books I kept telling myself I was going to read the way they […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning There is a great dichotomy in the world of sports. Sports can motivate us to live a healthy lifestyle […]
Did April sneak up on other people like it did me? It seems like just yesterday we were welcoming in 2023, and now we’re already […]
Now I know why we call inches high footwear “heels.” When you need them most, they vanish from sight. When they decide to reappear – […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning A parent recently stood up in a school board meeting in my community and shared his opinion. He said: […]
The Major League Baseball season starts for real again tomorrow. One of the things I have always enjoyed about baseball is the characters the game […]
Thoughts from around 5 a.m. when I’ve already been up for two hours because that’s just the way I function some days: I was heading […]
I went on YouTube a couple of evenings ago to watch a video I hadn’t seen in a while. It was Jimmy Fallon and Miley […]
Some Random Ramblings today for early March: So did March come in like a lion or a lamb? I think it depended on which minute […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning The world watches in horror as the death toll from an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale in […]
When I was at the Prince George Free Press a dozen or so years ago, I kept a bit of blog (they were a thing […]
BY ALEXANDER HEMINGWAY Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives B.C.’s first budget under Premier David Eby includes substantial funding increases in housing, health care, income supports […]
Over the weekend, I was listening to the radio and I heard Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me with Your Best Shot”. It brought back a memory […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre recently reflected on a very important question, “Why are people so angry?” […]
Time for some cool stuff that no one knew anything about … until now. Or, at least, stuff I didn’t know anything about and the […]
“Fitzroy stepped back from the small opening he had made to the room beyond, then turned and faced us, a look of shock on his […]
Up, up and away My beautiful, My beautiful balloon. -Fifth Dimension I’m a little chagrined that all the good balloon jokes have been used before […]
Well, that was an . . . interesting week, weather-wise in Prince George. You know there was a fair bit of snow when you see […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning There is nothing more tragic than a person looking back on their life and saying, “My God, what have […]
Editor: With Alzheimer’s Awareness month coming to a close, the Alzheimer Society of B.C. wants to say a big thank you to the people of […]
For the two people who were wondering where my column has been the past few weeks, the hard drive on my computer died and the […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Andrew Tate rose to great prominence among our young people in 2022. He was banned on several social media […]
A group of women stood in downtown Vancouver December 28 holding signs with names of women who were murdered by men in 2022. The vigil […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning For many of us, January first is a good time to reassess our progress in life and set goals […]
I’m going to start 2023 the same way I spent a lot of columns in 2022, talking about Blacktop Blockheads. To be honest, I’m not […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Christmas is the time of year when human beings put aside their differences and come together. It is difficult […]
And so we come to the end of another year. I think back over 2022 and, surprisingly, there isn’t much that stands out for me. […]
Christmas is over and the new year is about to begin. That means it’s time for Bill’s Eerily Inaccurate Predictions for 2023. I predict that […]
During my career as a newspaper reporter I have written realms of stories about the homeless in our city, and other parts of BC — […]
On Saturday evening, at the 5:15 mark of the second period of the WHL game between the Kamloops Blazers and the Prince George Cougars, Ethan […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Dutch historian Rutger Bregman is very good at asking questions and challenging deeply held beliefs. Many, for example, assume […]
I went walking at CN Centre a few times in the last week, and it seemed I noticed something different each time. On one occasion, […]
The inquiry into whether the feds were justified in invoking the Emergency Measures Act to, ostensibly, quell the Freedom Convoy folks is, thankfully, moving to […]
It’s December. I know it is because I checked three different calendars, and they all confirmed it is the last month of 2022. December, if […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning There is an interesting online debate taking place as to whether Jesus of Nazareth was a socialist or a […]
Many people today have mobile phones (a.k.a. cellphones), but from what I’ve seen recently, some people would be better off without the ‘mobile’ part. I’ve […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning The American rapper GZA hit the nail on the head when he said, “Live a life full of humility, […]
BY IGLIKA IVANOVA AND ALEX HEMINGWAY Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives With inflation shooting up to a 40-year high this year, the cost of living […]
We in Prince George frequently laugh at people in Vancouver early in winter, when they get a half-inch of snow and the whole city shuts […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning It is difficult to identify a world leader who has not betrayed their integrity for the sake of wealth […]
Call it a hunch, but I think winter is here. I think it’s that keen reporter instinct, honed by years of working at community newspapers, […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning We are potentially living in the most dangerous time in history since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The […]
BY ALEX HEMINGWAY Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Can B.C. afford to make major new public investments to address crises in housing, climate change, health […]
My column this week has gone to the dogs. I mean, some people probably figure that happened years ago, but this week it’s literal. A […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning There is an interesting phenomenon happening in the world. The quest for truth is gaining momentum, and it cannot […]
There are times where things work out in the end, no matter how they looked earlier. Friday night, I went to bed early, about 9:30 […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning The world is facing trying times. How did we get here? Did we learn anything from the death and […]
Saturday morning, 7:30. I set out for a walk on a route I use a fair bit. West from my apartment building at Fifth and […]
I’m writing this Sunday afternoon, with a beautiful sunny day outside. I will say, however, it is nowhere near that sunny early in the mornings. […]