Opinion

You've to hand it to B.C. Premier Christy Clark. It takes a lot of balls to do what she did just prior to last week's provincial premier's conference, and then throughout the meeting.

It was interesting to listen to a brief presentation made recently by Johannes Vervloed, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

I read the 50 Shades of Grey series. I kept seeing the cover everywhere, reading the hype online and without really knowing the subject matter of the series, I bought the trilogy on my eReader and added them to my summer reading list.

One of the most amazing things about the recent Canadian women's amateur golf championship in Lethbridge - besides the incredible 14-under-par score over four rounds posted by the champ, Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand - was the utter dominance by teena

There are a few things that journalists aren't allowed to do. Some of them are things nobody should really do, like accept a bribe. Other rules are just for reporters. Nobody else has to write under the standards of Canadian Press.

Marna's Musings

I don't know why, but sometimes I get into crazy conversations and it happened again. I can usually confine my crazy communications efforts to this office where we toil. We have enough off-the-wall characters around here to keep me amused for hours.

The Olympics have a strange kind of power. Those five rings, and the things they represent, can compel us to spend hours watching athletes we've never heard of, from countries we often know little about, perform in sports we'd normally never watch.

Western Canadian agriculture enters a new era as of today, August 1, 2012: the Canadian Wheat Board no longer has the monopoly power to market wheat, durum and barley grown in Western Canada.

So why aren't we using the water? We have acres of potable water at our beck and call in the form of the Rafferty and Alameda reservoirs, and yet we are doing precious little with it in terms of investment, development and recreational pursuits.