Opinion

As a lifelong constructive daydreamer, I wonder now why my own high school results were not better than they were.

Bill Bennett, the minister responsible for the core review of government operations, sounds like a dentist when describing the process. As in: “This won’t hurt a bit.” He was the soul of reassurance and compassion while explaining the B.C.

I was once standing in a vacant apartment with a woman who said she couldn't rent there because the Wi-Fi signal in the area was making her feel ill. After she left, I pulled out my iPhone to search for signals. I could find none.

January 22nd, 2013, Crystal Pool & Fitness Centre, my very first training session with the ninja.

I’m alive. And probably shouldn’t be. The plan was a weekend of biking at Revelstoke. No rush to arrive, so I opted for the scenic Fraser Canyon over the speedier Coquihalla route. The plan aborted just south of Hell’s Gate.

Pope John Paul II is recorded as saying that a society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members. But governments are interested more in election days than judgment days, and our freshly re-elected provincial government isn’t shamed easily.

For the thousands of Albertans hit by floods in southern Alberta, the hard work continues. For the provincial government, the hard work, politically speaking, is just beginning.

It seems health associations are once again calling for a “fat tax:” taxes on foods that some nutritionists and researchers don’t want us to eat or drink.

On the second day our government sat in the B.C. legislature, Speaker Linda Reid admonished then-unelected premier Christy Clark for passing notes to a cabinet minister during a debate.

In recent weeks, there has been extensive news coverage of disastrous flooding, first in central Europe, then southern Alberta and Toronto. In all these cases, flooding was caused by extreme rainfall.