Opinion

Regular readers of this column know I started writing a year ago about the experiences of new immigrants. I haven't found anyone to interview in a while, but I have become involved with the Battlefords Immigrant Resource Centre.

Three Conservative senators are proposing the three Maritime provinces - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, should merge into one province. It's a good thing they are appointed, because Senators Mike Duffy (P.E.I.), John Wallace (N.

Unlike today's maintained highways, the road to Bethlehem from the East probably was paved more with dung than asphalt. Assuming that's true, then watching where one walked was a strategic consideration.

Dear Editor 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the presence of HIV and, after 30 years of extensive work to stop the transmission of HIV, much work still needs to be done. This Dec.

The face isn't always beautiful, though sometimes it can be young and beautiful or older and even more beautiful. Strange images fill my head this week.

The Humboldt of today is not the Humboldt of yesterday. That's clear pretty much everywhere you look, and was made more evident last week during Moonlight Madness. A decade ago, things were busy in town on Moonlight Madness night.

December begins with the moon just past full phase. We get a few rapid close calls Dec. 9 to 12 - the star Spica is within a degree (an occultation in the Southern Hemisphere) Dec.

As we all learned in social studies class, democracy is the worst political system, except all the others. I wouldn't argue otherwise, but I would say that part of what makes democracy such a terrible system are voters themselves.

History and Commentary from a Prairie Perspective

This is a big boot for the older man driving a green Chevy truck who drove down my back alley Nov. 20 around 4 p.m and decided the wood that is located along my fence must be free and took it all. Shame on you.