Opinion

Dear Editor Prime Minister Harper recently talked of the importance of dealing with the current economic crisis to prevent the world economy from returning to a recession.

With the season of Thanksgiving upon us, it is a wonderful time to reflect on the many reasons we should be grateful. Sometimes I think we don't take seriously all of the things we can and should be grateful for.

Dear Editor Recently, an interesting kind of grass-roots political development simply called, "Occupy Wall Street," is beginning to happen in the United States, and is even being noticed here in Canada.

It is funny sometimes what I take for granted.

History and Commentary from a Prairie Perspective

Kudos to Tom Loncarich and the Wakaw Town Council for looking into the issue of water fluoridation. I have given serious thought to approaching Humboldt City Council on this issue.

Perhaps 2011 will go down in history as the year marking the eventual end of water fluoridation, when so many cities and towns across the U.S. removed it that the rest had no choice but to ride the momentum and follow suit.

It's not a hard word to say. "Hello." It's just a couple of syllables. An even simpler greeting is "Hi." But when you're in a new place, a new province, or even a new country, that simple greeting, when paired with a smile, can mean a whole lot.

There are four grocery stores where I live: one belongs to a North American chain of stores, one to a prominent Western Canada group of companies, one to a smaller but growing Vancouver Island based company and the other is one of the earliest indepe

Dear Editor I'd like to commend Alex McPhail on the thoughtful account of his recent encounter with Tibetan chickens ("Encounters with chickens" News-Optimist, Sept.