Why did power go out for nearly 10,000 people? Woodpeckers
3Very weak excuse, this day and age they could send out an email note and post on line. The woodpecker didn't make the whole that quickly. Sloppy management and planning
22- Robin Draper
School board trustees approve pay hike for next term
18Jeez I wish I could give myself a 24% pay raise. And what do we get for that? Will they spend more time improving the education quality and quantity of our communities? Sadly I doubt it. The school board is on its way to becoming a bloated, expensive entity that will only serve as a spring board for higher political office, instead of a board that benefits the next generation through quality education. Imagine the scrambling if teachers or nurses or firefighters or police just gave themselves a 24% raise?
1- Robert Barwise
Little Prince won't be opening for Victoria Day long weekend
12The summer season is short enough around here without being pared back even more because maintenance is not handled during the off season, causing this lack of availability.The city found money to fund a trip to Victoria that, according to the report in this paper seemed to be a wasteful use of our tax dollars.dollars. If we fancy presenting ourselves as a any sort of tourist destination then it is vital that attractions be up and running on a regular schedule and hence, available when visitors are here. People would be disappointed by a mid season breakdown that caused a disruption in service but simply not being prepared for the traditional opening weekend for the season of an attraction such as The Little Prince just comes across as poor planning or simple disinterest on the part of the people/organization handling whatever particular attraction that may be at the centre of attention. Is there information missing from the story that would excuse this failure to be ready?
4- Renoguy24
Milobar talks pipelines, DRIPA during final campaign visit to Prince George
13No matter what side of politics you stand on, if you believe in the right to vote and in “no taxation without representation” then DRIPA and UNDRIP have to go… they’re completely undemocratic.
3- DD22
Milobar talks pipelines, DRIPA during final campaign visit to Prince George
11If only the majority of MLA seats weren't in Left-wing lunatic lotus land then the conservatives, who the rest of B.C. favors, would be in power.Sure there are a few limp, left looney-tunes in the North, a few of whom comment in this paper, but thankfully in the North they are the tiny minority.Canada has to follow the lead of other countries in recognizing UNDRIP but not adhering to it and adopting it into domestic law. That was Canada's foolish mistake, especially B.C. which concocted DRIPA.It is unconstitutional to permit a group, which represents less than 5% of the population and that was never duly elected into power, to co-govern.And if that group chooses to be miltant, then that is why Canada has a national police force and an army.
3- BGeez
School board trustees approve pay hike for next term
12Do we really need a school board? Our Nurses have to fight for a pay raise , and the school board can give themselves a raise , no questions asked?? something is wrong with this picture.
1- FHR
School board trustees approve pay hike for next term
10Yessss, taxes are going up again!!!!!
1- Sea K
Union heads slam SD57 trustee pay hike
10Craig Brennan et al. are just another example of parasites at the public trough of tax dollars. Engorge your bloated bank accounts.
1- BGeez
Union heads slam SD57 trustee pay hike
10Out of line or embarrassing. Both terms will come to mind with tax payers.
1- Shark Tank
Milobar talks pipelines, DRIPA during final campaign visit to Prince George
4Recognizing "DRIPA" as "law" does not cause the current indecisive economic future of BC. Politics and the policy of not making meaningful treaties in a reasonable time is to blame. Treaties were "promised" and must be made. Our government, or the next, could remove the confusion over "Private land ownership" by acknowledging that regardless of the Court appeal decision, private land owners will retain ownership. If another "group" is deemed the "owner", by our Courts, the government should negotiate/calculate the "compensation" owed. Rather than waiting for our costly and slow legal system to rule, potential investors would realize that it is safe to buy into projects in BC. Government can remove the barriers to investment that "appears" to exist.
7- Mike Riemer
Milobar talks pipelines, DRIPA during final campaign visit to Prince George
8Policies like DRIPA benefit globalist elites by using special interest groups and minorities etc as pawns to erode sovereignty and local control over land and resources. Plain and simple.
3- DD22
Province won't dismantle rail corridor, consultant tells council
6Wouldn't a renewed passenger service PG to N Vancouver with stop-offs including Whistler be an idea? If you build it, they will come, just don't make it 3rd class junky.
4- D B A
School board trustees approve pay hike for next term
9Isn’t politics grand
1- Jim John
Eleven unregulated drug deaths confirmed in March in Northern Health region
“unregulated drug deaths.” Key word is unregulated. Society more dangerous with unregulated drugs. Sadly, many believe society can punish & incarcerate its way to Nirvana. Many conservative US states have tried this approach with little effect on the crime rate. Unfortunately, the NDP’s previous approach only got regulated drugs into less than 5% of drug users. Those users were shown to have less interactions with emergency responders & the criminal justice system while increasing the likelihood of maintaining healthy work & family connections. Unfortunately, due to the hue & cry from the uptight right, the NDP has backed off their most recent approach when it needed to be expanded.
10- Mr Science
Province won't dismantle rail corridor, consultant tells council
7Really should bring passenger service back to that rail line.It was nice to have another option back in the day. And with no more Greyhound and rising plane fees, it would be good to have this option.
1- BCBenny
Little Prince won't be opening for Victoria Day long weekend
1convenient !trying to put pressure on council for more money i am betting... though they have already been strong arming for over $1.2 million....
7- bcracer
School board trustees approve pay hike for next term
7Teachers bargained for more than a year to get 12% over 4 years. School board trustees had a meeting and granted themselves more than 23% that isn't paced out over multiple years. Great governance...
- ReasonableHumanBeing
Little Prince won't be opening for Victoria Day long weekend
5Kind of hard to do maintenance in the off season when the train is stored in a culvert. No heat, wet, limited room, poor lighting. Drop by sometime when the culvert is open and have a look at the horrendous working conditions.
2- HeeHaw
Province won't dismantle rail corridor, consultant tells council
4I guarantee this will be another taxpayer funded money-pit (because we need more apparently). There is no industry left along this line. It also contends with one of the steepest grades in North America! A runaway train hauling one car, resulted in the deaths of 2 members of a three man crew in 2006. Ask yourselves why private industry wants to drop it if there was such potential there! Does anyone from city council understand the costs and logistics of running an actual railway? They’re profitable because they run on scale! You need 200+ car trains every couple of hours to compensate for track maintenance, fleet maintenance, locomotive maintenance, traffic control, operating crews, mechanics, welders, electricians, managers, marketers, HR, legal, admin, etc.Can’t wait to see the business plan! I’d be impressed if it loses less than $20mil a year.
1- J Jonah Jameson
Committee recommends changes to permissive tax exemption policy
4If a church owns millions of dollars worth of undeveloped land they should not get any permissive tax exception. Nil! Zilch! Zero! Churches that provide nothing to the community should also be deniedThe same thing applies to the group who gets the largest single tax holiday of them all, the PG Golf & Curling Club. If they can afford to hold onto the half finished course off the North Nechako then they can pay their taxes.In general the only sport organizations that should get the exception are ones that cater to kids & young people. Green fees or gun club membership can be bumped up a few bucks to make up the difference for adult groupsThe First Nation groups that have a revenue stream from the federal and provincial gov'ts should also be cut off from triple dipping in the taxpayer's pocket.
1- Bobs your uncle
