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Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park playground to be closed, removed, replaced
PrinceGeorgeCitizen
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Even with the added cost of archaeological assessment, how on earth does a playground cost $3 million? You can buy a rather nice swing set for $700, one with a slide and climbing boards and a little platform for $1300. Even if industrial strength versions cost several times this, and we add in landscaping, you'd think the cost would be nowhere near $3 million. What am I missing?
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It sounds like he and his family deserved to be treated much better.I do wonder, though, why a commercial flight with a nurse would have cost $11,000. Say the airfare is $1000 one way, probably an overestimate. That's $3,000 for the patient's one way fare and the nurse's round trip. Say the nurse gets $500 a day. That's another $1,000. Add a hotel room for the nurse and her meals. $500 should more than cover it. That's $4,500.
PrinceGeorgeCitizen
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I'm wondering how plausible it is to blame metal theft on homeless people. Homeless people don't have trucks. How are they going to transport scrap metal to a dealer?
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It sounds like the decision may well be correct in its application of the law to the facts, but if so, it seems that the law is overly narrow in the scope of the cases for which compensation is available.
PrinceGeorgeCitizen
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$7,000 per year is $28 per work day. Presumably the central administration staff will now have to collect payments for coffee, keep track of who owes what, have people tick off each cup they drink, etc.. I wouldn't be surprised if the time lost doing that is worth more than having the district pay for coffee. Nickle-and-diming employees is frequently not cost-efficient
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I don't see why the Crown is seeking a driving ban. That's appropriate if someone drives dangerously, but there is no mention of that being one of his problems. A driving ban would presumably make going straight harder since it would limit employment opportunities.
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Heat is a little more work, but providing lighting is trivial. I've used outhouses in remote bush camps that had cheap, simple solar lighting. The lack of facilities for drivers is ridiculous.
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TrevorR If there are experiments showing that 5G stops plants from growing, why haven't reports of them appeared in the scientific literature? If I have somehow missed them, could you please provide references? There is also the problem that no one claims that 4G has such an effect when the power levels for 4G are larger than those of 5G. 4G should therefore have a stronger effect.Lou Maurice Rachel Weber is a CURRENT trustee: https://www.sd57.bc.ca/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1144483&type=d&pREC_ID=1386451
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BGeez@ Students at UBC Medical School do take an oath. In any case, while some doctors in every generation are motivated by money and status, many are not. I have found younger doctors here in PG, including a number who have trained here, to be conscientious and hard-working. Some of them do medical mission work, which is hardly the route to wealth. i don't see any deterioration in motivation or ethics over the last several generations.
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PrinceGeorgeCitizen
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It's likely that Mayor Yu has some idea of why she was let go, but he is very likely being truthful in saying he doesn't officially know. In the organizational model the city uses, in which the City Manager Babicz is the interface between the city staff and Council, and in which such decisions are up to the City Manager, Mayor Yu may well not know what officially happened until he receives a report from Babicz. Commenting publicly on any other basis could set him and the City up for litigation.
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DD22@ DOGE hasn't found much fraud or waste in the US. What makes you think a similar project would would find much here?
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My tastes are probably not those of the average tourist, but I find it hard to believe that anyone would go out of his or her way to see Mr. PG. I mean, seriously? It isn't an ancient artifact. It isn't a great work of art. It isn't of historical significance. Do people actually divert from Highway 97 to go see the World's Largest Log Crusher in Mackenzie, which is imho cooler than Mr. PG? If it can be moved without excessive cost to another spot near its current location, fine, but the idea that it will attract tourists seems crazy to me.
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Kay Oss@If someone shows up at scrap metal dealer pushing a shopping cart, it is pretty obvious that the scrap is stolen. If that is what is going on, it means that the dealers are complicit in the thefts. It should be pretty easy to set up a sting and arrest the corrupt scrap dealers.
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PrinceGeorgeCitizen
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Bobs your uncle@Homeless people don't have trucks in which to carry away stolen wire.
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PrinceGeorgeCitizen
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If they only have jurisdiction off railway property when it affects railway property, what basis is there for them enforcing speed limits on first avenue?
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Jack Frost@Even if PG itself is growing, most of the schools they are recommending closing are in outlying areas. Growth in PG's population won't necessarily affect places like McBride, Valemount, and MacKenzie.
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PrinceGeorgeCitizen
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Mlawrence@It sounds like he is in jail and refused to leave his cell.
PrinceGeorgeCitizen
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Chest RockUWell@ Tickets for events whose performers are paid are subject to GST. Sales of such things as food and drink are also subject to GST. People coming to PG to attend sports and arts events spend money here on food and lodging. Professional performers and athletes who live here spend additional money here. So how is it that arts and sports people don't contribute financially?
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M SP@As the article says, it is BC Hydro doing this. The City of PG has nothing to do with it.
PrinceGeorgeCitizen
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Jim John@ If I am not mistaken, most if not all of the indigenous education workers are paid for out of Targeted Aboriginal Education funds, not the general budget, so cutting those positions would not save anything. (Targeted Aboriginal Education funds are payments made by the province to the school district of so much per status Indian student enrolled on September 30th.)
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