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Replacement or refurbishment? City considers future of Kopar Memorial Arena
PrinceGeorgeCitizen
5There isn’t a single word in this news story about the Great Big exciting Civic Core Initiative. Instead we get a blow by blow of an obviously staged press event to get the ball rolling on another Great Big Public Feud about infrastructure priorities. Apparently, two hockey teams can’t share a building. While everyone else has to share whatever meagre facility their particular interest group needs. The City of PG seems to be comfortable with the imperative that Hockey needs to have six city wide ice surfaces to survive. Swimmers need two pools. Etc etc. Meanwhile other segments of the population have to make do with little or nothing. “City Fathers and Mothers” must have seen this coming. But why must we keep poking the proverbial bear? I thought we were on the road to a plan to fulfill several “wants”. Why suddenly do we find ourselves waking to this old tune?We have a horrendously expensive City admin and council. How about some real leadership?
- Will Phuh
Replacement or refurbishment? City considers future of Kopar Memorial Arena
PrinceGeorgeCitizen 4Isn’t the replacement of this building supposed to be apart of a larger Civic Core development plan? An election debate could be averted if the City would only accelerate the Core plan. Or at the very, update us on the Core plan status.
- Will Phuh
FFGRD directors narrowly reject routine recording of 'no' votes
PrinceGeorgeCitizen 3Elks members are not elected by the public in an official election. Elks members aren’t spending tax payers money. Overlaying the governing model of an exclusive service club onto an official government entity is archaic and ridiculous. What next? A secret handshake and an ancient oath? Come on folks, what are you hiding? We have the right to know what has taken place at public meetings!
- Will Phuh
Province must take back timber rights in wake of Canfor closures: Steidle
PrinceGeorgeCitizenI support James’ opinion about forest tenures. What’s even more ludicrous is seeing dozens of rail cars loaded with raw logs last week at the CN Rail yard. One would hope that those cars are going to a domestic production facility, but they could just as easily be going to a coastal log sort, then onto barges for shipment to another country. We should be closing loopholes in Forest policy which allow tenure holders to sell raw logs where production facilities don’t exist within a certain radius. Lumber mills shut down, thus the tenures are then eligible for export. A ridiculous scenario.
- Will Phuh
