Opinion

By the time we hit middle age, many of us know friends or family members that have been blindsided by a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness.

I am writing to address the Adrian Raeside editorial cartoon you ran (on July 20), which implied that ICBC hands out financial bonuses to its workers freely and without cause.

The drama involving the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) is about to come to an end. Come this Friday (Aug. 5) at 4:30 p.m. HST referendum ballots will no longer be accepted and we will soon find out if the current system will remain or if we will go back to the old provincial sales and goods and services tax model.

I’ve always had a thing for space. The recent retiring of the NASA shuttles reminded me of this. I’m not sure what it is that I like about space, but it’s likely that it scares me.

Earlier this year the Dacha, the cross-country ski hut at Marshall Lake, was vandalized.

The cost of building new energy projects these days is staggering, just as it must have been for earlier generations in this province when the big hydro dams we currently have were built.

B.C. Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier Kevin Falcon discusses his thoughts on the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).

I would like to respond to The Gazette article about an expansion to the fitness room at the aquatic centre.

The election of Elizabeth May as Canada’s first-ever Green Party MP was supposed to be a breakthrough for environmental issues. Too bad she blew it.

The problem for the fire department is that the current vehicle is about 20-years old and no longer recognized by the insurance underwriters and thus, the new vehicle has to be purchased.