Opinion

By Andru McCracken, I’ve met some very wild people in my day, but none more wild than these low elevation folks. A friend and I once hiked up a mountainside more steep than we could […]

By Andru McCracken I was interviewing a new resident last week when he hit me across the head with a rich new phrase: the valley of the broken toys. I was so struck by it, […]

By Andru McCracken Thanks to a new initiative funded by the Canadian government, the Goat will soon have a journalist based in Victoria. It is an exciting time. This journalist will focus on what provincial […]

By Andru McCracken This weekend marked the departure of Naomi Balla-Boudreau, McBride’s revolutionary librarian. Naomi played an integral role in moving the community’s library from a rundown leaky undersized facility to a spacious bright building […]

By Andru McCracken There is still no news on Valemount’s big resort. So what now? I keep thinking we’re lucky a developer didn’t offer to build a bomber bike park in Valemount in 2010. If […]

By Andru McCracken Creating useful and valuable things out of the trees that surround us: That is who we are as a community. It’s not just a thing we have done in the past: it’s […]

By Andru McCracken There has been much written about gratitude and its salutary effects on people and society, that’s not what this editorial is about, instead it’s about the really important role of the third […]

By Andru McCracken It’s time to take the next steps towards developing skiing in Valemount. At a recent annual general meeting of YORA more than 50 people attended. Why? On the agenda was a plan […]

By Andru McCracken A couple weeks ago I was contacted by a woman with an unsettling story of being stalked in Prince George. It happened two years ago and triggered a police review which has […]