Opinion

While we still have a week of summer left, and a couple of months to go until ski season it’s getting colder at night. I live in an older house that is shifting and settling, and my roommates and I have started to notice drafts.

"I thought, ‘My god, I’m watching people die.

At last. After years of getting by with a lousy 50 channels, the CRTC has finally given the go-ahead to 40 new digital specialty stations which will be premiering this fall in a cable package near you.

To those poor souls who live east of the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia has always remained a mystery.

On Magazine (www.onmagazine.com), formerly known as Time Digital, has put together an interesting feature on some of the best Web sites that you?ve probably never heard of.

For much of B.C., Labour Day weekend signals the end of summer, one last weekend lined up on a highway or waiting for a ferry, followed by the first day of school on Tuesday morning.

It’s just three small words, yet this simple three-word phrase has a profound effect on everyone who hears it. For kids who don’t particularly like school, it’s the equivalent of an annual death sentence.

Premier Gordon Campbell probably didn’t chose his 14-member technology council, which will advise him on how to turn British Columbia into "a global magnet for high-tech investment," based on where they live or own second homes.

Deals have a way of changing once the spotlight of public attention is removed. Thus it may be with the more than 60-year battle to preserve the South Chilcotin Range.

My current home computer is a piece of sh*t. It’s slow, it’s loud, it’s slow, it crashes, it flickers, it stalls, it’s slow and it’s slow.