Opinion

If a seven-nation army can't hold back Jack White then it should come as no surprise that a sprained ankle won't either.

As another B.C. summer swelters toward an end, school teachers, led by the B.C. Teachers’ Federation’s Jim Iker still don’t have a collective agreement, so a real possibility exists that public schools will not open Sept. 2.

The PNE will offer free admission this weekend. You can thank the rain. With a forecast of showers this weekend, the PNE issued a press release a short time ago announcing free admission for the popular fair if you get there before 1 p.m.

Periodical publishers have a hankering for anniversaries. From Darwin’s 200th birthday to the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, the celebratory stuff makes for cheap content filler.

In the weeks since I withdrew my candidacy for park board, many people have contacted me.

There is nothing more depressing at the end of summer than the arrival of things that signify the end of summer: crappy weather, back-to-school ads, pants and, worst of all, pumpkin spice lattes.

Last week saw the third annual Diner en Blanc in Vancouver.

While most of us are trying to make one career work, designer Anine Bing from Los Angeles has made all five of her careers work at the age of 31.