Opinion

Canadian headlines about government deficits and debt can be dizzying and hard for people to grasp. A few billion here and several billion there and the natural response is for one's eyes to glaze over in despair.

Dear Editor Delorme Drive in Cochin continues to degrade daily. The potholes meld into each other, and some are deep enough to cause major damage to farm, recreation and work vehicles.

A post-secondary education is expensive and very necessary these days. Most students must carefully manage limited financial resources to obtain that degree or diploma -- without accumulating a crushing burden of debt along the way.

Back in 1950, the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development spent $922 per registered "Indian." As of 2012, the renamed Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada spent $9,056 per registered First Nations person.

I am a church-going Christian. At the same time, I am in fear for my earthly reputation and immortal soul because I have reached the conclusion the bitter conflict between the state of Israel and Hamas is the result of the propaganda of yesterday.

Governments, like families, make choices. And governments, like families, sometimes make choices that deny them other options: for example, spend money on having dinner out every night may preclude the purchase of a nicer automobile.

Canadians pay among the highest costs per capita among OECD countries for prescription drugs, with one Canadian out of 10 unable to fill their prescriptions because of financial reasons.

In the past two years we've been spending significantly more time in Manitoba. This coincides with my mom and step dad buying a cabin not far from Riding Mountain National Park. It's a four-hour trip, but it's worth it.

I've been wondering what happened to all the hysteria over the City of North Battleford's garbage disposal program.

Ed, my neighbor next door, actually entered my office last week. My office is tucked away in the basement of our house, and it is also the furnace room and the water heater room. No one usually gets in there except me and our two cats.