Opinion

There is something wonderful about strawberries that are available in your own backyard. Sweet, succulent berries that not only smell wonderful, but taste like a bite of summer.

Television shows have popularized the theatrical entrance into the hospital emergency room: patients racing down hallways on gurneys with worried doctors and nurses running alongside - great drama.

There's much to be said for foliage and it seldom gets the recognition it deserves. It can be likened to the setting for a play - in view of the audience (you, the gardener) during the entire production (i.e.

National Post columnist Andrew Coyne recently wrote a column in which he presents a solution to the "problem" of charities engaging in political activities: scrap the tax credits available to charitable donors.

I have spent the whole week last week holding my breath that I would not wake up to snow or heavy frost. A day or two had me wondering which drawer I had stored my winter woollies in.

Ed, my neighbour next door, has been getting cranked up for harvesting and bubbling over with impatience about anything and everything. "You should know better than to hold a yard sale in September," he told me last week.

Dear Editor Well, just read "Road issues dominate discussions at city council" (Regional Optimist, Sept. 11). It still baffles me and I suppose many of my fellow citizens about priorities at City Hall.

I spend a lot of time on the Internet. And as I am a millennial who is Internet-savvy, I’m a prime candidate for online trends.

It's a sweltering 35 degrees as I pull up to a trailer housing the W.A.C. Bennett Dam visitor centre just outside Hudson's Hope, 100 kilometres west of Fort St. John. I'm here to see B.C.'s largest hydro dam first-hand.

Having gone through a spring provincial election, Ontario is once again in election mode - this time at the municipal level - with a lot of attention focusing on Toronto.