Opinion

The B.C. Natural Resource Forum and Northern B.C. Business and Technology Awards, hosted in Prince George last week, were a great opportunity to see some of the innovation taking place in the north.

The rough beast of recall has slouched into Kamloops and Comox, carrying with it the rank smell of the failing effort in Oak Bay.

Blue Monday is considered the most depressing day of the year, and depending on what you read, this year it’s either on January 17th or January 24th. Originally it was called Black Monday. I’m glad the name was changed.

Editor:

They say you can always come home again – only this time it was for the benefit of Houston youth.

The Canadian press has been strangely silent about the last Trans-Alaska pipeline spill last Saturday Jan 8, 2011 which cut the Prudhoe Bay oil production by 95% and raised the price oil to more than $90 a barrel. The Trans-Alaska pipeline is owned by Alyeska, a consortium of oil companies with BP as the majority shareholder.

A part of me is thinking that this is funny. The other part of me? Not so much.