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Swim team coach stunned by lack of police response to Prince George Aquatic Centre incident

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Good for you Jerry, for speaking your mind.“Who has the rights, the people paying the taxes or this guy lighting fires? I left Poland (in 1988) because I hated the communists and socialists, and now it’s exactly the same here. The Liberals and the NDP are not listening to anybody, they are doing whatever they want.“We pay a lot of taxes and I for one, am increasingly becoming disillusioned. Where is our public service? Why are our calls unanswered by police? Why are my rights to a safe, clean community, infringed upon by lawless degenerates?What are we even paying taxes for? A sub par school system? Catch and release justice? Constipated medical serviced? Non existent law enforcement? Putting the rights of criminals high above everyone else? Free drugs for addicts?

Council wants to hear more from the public before Mr. PG is sent downtown

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Moving it downtown is a mistake and Canada games plaza is a terrible place to put it. Who goes there? Last time I drove thru, it was a chop shop for stolen bikes.Why does it need to be moved? It’s mostly irrelevant, except to a few tourists, how many people actually stop to look at it? I would imagine there are more important things to waste tax dollars on. If it needs to be moved, maybe it could go down by Masich place stadium?

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Prince George-Mackenzie Green Party candidate Steidle claims opponent hiding past as oil and gas lobbyist

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While I find myself having a hard time arguing with Mr. Steidle’s stance on lobbyists becoming members of government. I unfortunately think the green party's goal to shutter all oil and gas work in the province, to be irresponsible and seems to be moral grandstanding.I acknowledge that fossil fuels certainly have an impact on the environment. But I am not convinced that an assault on our own oil and gas industry, is going to accomplish anything other than making blue collar Canadians lives harder, than they have already become. If you want to protect the environment, then sever peoples reliance on oil and gas. Give them alternative options. Disparaging our own industry, will do nothing to stop global consumption and as a result, will do nothing to combat emissions. We just weaken our own economy and deliver wealth in to the hands of countries that have little regard for the environment, among other things.

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Ex-addict says abstinence treatment works, BC's illicit drug strategy offers 'zero incentive' to quit

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Straight from the horses mouth, how can anyone dispute that?This new style of “treatment” is mind boggling. When someone is destroying their lives with anything, drugs, alcohol, food, destructive behaviour, etc, how can anyone in good conscience, enable that behaviour and tell themselves they are doing the right thing? It defies common sense and it’s actually cruel imo.Who are these politicians and how can they be so far removed from reality?

Petition for northern BC psychiatric hospital continues to gather momentum

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Wow! Someone with common sense?! I will gladly sign the petition. Because pretending most of these people have even a shred of what it takes to care for themselves, let alone take steps to improve their situation and allowing them to live on the streets, is barbaric and inhumane.

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Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park playground to be closed, removed, replaced

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Whats the point of doing ground penetrating radar studies, when no followup is ever done? To whip up mass hysteria?

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City warns of sanitary sewer leak in Nechako River

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-City staff -the Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness-Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy -Environment CanadaI’d love to know what all of these agencies are actually doing, I mean, other than soaking up tax revenue. Bureaucracy on bureaucracy. Maybe we should get some outside consultants involved as well?

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Retiring RCMP superintendent calls drug decriminalization 'the most horrific failure of public policy'

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I find it fascinating to hear about the hardships faced by front line law enforcement. You hear so many different things about all of these problems, but rarely it seems you hear it from the horses mouth.Pretty much what I expected. People who deal directly with the problems are largely ignored, while fools and “experts” in office buildings somewhere, cook up these worthless policies. Idealistic garbage, completely flying in the face of reality. I thank you for this interview and your many years of service Shaun, I can only imagine how frustrating being a police officer is, in this day in age and hopefully you can put it all behind you and enjoy your retirement, I would say you earned it.

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Xatśūll First Nation calls for halt to gold mining project southeast of Prince George

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“could have long-term consequences for Xatśūll’s spiritual and social fabric, the release states”Im sure. What are the long-term consequences for Xatśūll’s spiritual and social fabric, when they, like the rest of the province, don't have jobs? Groups like this, have done nothing but stifle development of the resource sector for decades. And in 2024, you’re seeing the harm they have caused to the prosperity of the province and everyone in it. No one wants to do business in B.C and what was once a thriving province, is in steep decline. I am sure they will be content, when their consent is paid for and the non elected native officials and their lawyers, get their pockets lined. Too bad in 2024, the plight of your average indigenous person, appears to be worse than ever before, despite the amount of money that has been doled out. Wheres it all going? Grievance industry.

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Brink makes pitch to buy Canfor assets in Fort St. John, Vanderhoof, Houston and Bear Lake

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Bravo, I cant imagine a better outcome, then for these facilities to be owned and managed locally. Sounds like the NDP is doing nothing as usual.

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Downtown wedding shop display window smashed again

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These people are a menace to themselves and to everyone around them. And our society thinking that letting them live their lives addicted to drugs and giving them the freedom to run amok, terrorize citizens and enabling their drug use, is awful and reckless. They are incapable of helping themselves, are hopelessly addicted to drugs, are physically and mentally ill. So much so, that many of them will never fully recover and they need to be institutionalized and treated, that’s what actual compassion would look like.You wouldn’t let your grandparent with dementia run wild, or let the mentally challenged wander. You certainly wouldn’t give these people the means to harm themselves. This isn’t any different. People strung out on drugs and given the means to never end the cycle of addiction, cannot care for themselves. The suffering that results from these foolish policies, will be called into question and the people that championed this nonsense, will be held to account.

Prince George court grants bail to man awaiting two trials

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Imagine it was your job, to preside over this three ring circus, we call a justice system?I wonder if these people go to bed at night and believe they are making a difference? I wonder what they tell themselves to justify their massive salaries and raises, even though they are failing miserably at every possible metric. Perhaps their employment and wage, should be based off performance.

Man dies trying to help after school bus goes off the road south of Williams Lake

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How sad, what an awful situation. Condolences to the family and all involved. This may have simply been an accident, but there are way too many aggressive drivers out there, making blind passes, speeding excessively, tail gating, etc. Jeopardizing theirs and everyone else’s health and safety around them, just to get somewhere thirty minutes faster. How moronic and selfish. Don’t drive like a selfish fool, you’re not as “good” a driver as you imagine.

Former Lheidli T’enneh Chief Clay Pountney to run for NDP in Prince George-Valemount

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Where is the part where you actually do something about the crumbling job market?“More doctors, more nurses, new ways to ease financial burdens” More doctors and nurses sounds nice but is just a slogan. And easing financial burdens, aka handouts while doing nothing to stimulate the local economy to generate the needed tax revenue. Sounds like a great strategy, too bad you have no chance of winning.News flash, doctors don't want to live, invest, or be over worked in this impoverished town thats circling the drain, treating drug addicts. First order of business should be attracting more development to create high paying jobs, that will revitalize the town and then maybe doctors and other highly payed professionals will want to live here.Its starting to look like the forestry version of Detroit here.

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New parking rules set to take effect around hospital

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You have to pay to park on Carney street now?! How does that work for the people that live on those streets? They or company have to pay to park in front of their home?Parking problems in the area? What parking problems? Just looks like money grubbing to me. Outrageous you’re going to have to pay 14$ in parking fees to see a doctor.

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Slate of federal election candidates taking shape in Prince George

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I am not a partisan, I think thats very undemocratic and have voted liberal in the past, but what have they accomplished? How anyone could vote liberal at this point, is beyond me. Get out of your internet liberal echo chamber and go out into your community and experience how far this community has fallen. Overdose deaths and a failed safe supply program, are top of the list for me. Drug deaths and the fallout have increased radically, clearly it’s not working, all of the data backs that up.While I don’t think people need access to “assault” style weapons, what are they actually doing to prevent gun crime? Because gun crime is rarely carried out by registered gun owners, with lawfully obtained fire arms. Getting tough with law abiding fire arm owners does nothing and is just an attempt to placate anti gun people in Toronto, while simultaneously accomplishing nothing in way of gun crime. Liberals have lofty ideas, but have done worse than nothing in ten years.

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Prince George council endorses federal application for addition to L'heidli T'enneh reserve lands

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“contributes directly to advancing reconciliation and improving the treaty relationship”Contributes directly to reconciliation, by eliminating taxes on a commercial building? I’d feel better about this, if local natives, didn’t have to pay property taxes on their homes. Not that I love that idea either, but seems like it would actually improve the lives of native people, more then eliminating the property tax on a former bingo hall and currently is a place that hosts local wrestling matches.Good job city council! Excellent virtue signalling, well done on accomplishing nothing of substance!

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Carrier Lumber president backs First Nation plea to restore local forest policy decision making

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Forest fires and beetle kill are both clearly heavily influenced by modern day forestry practices. They replanted the entire province with spruce, pine, fir, because they are the economically viable species. Is it any surprise beetle infestations wiped out huge swathes of forest? They spray, to suppress pioneer species of tree, like aspen and poplar, which is a major food source for moose in the winter. They cut down huge swathes of cedar and birch and leave it to rot in the woods. They scrape the ground bare and pile the brush into piles for burning. Leaving acres of high density, malnourished, highly flammable pine, to go up like tinder.The idea that forests need to be managed by man, so they don’t burn, is laughable. The whole reason we’re in this boat is because of how man managed the forest. And the idea that native bands will do a better job, or have some inherent ability to manage the forests is a farce. They will exploit it too.

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Prince George pub fined for selling liquor to minor

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The black clover is a great local business and seems to be fairly successful.How is it, in a province that deemed photo radar to be entrapment, you can send an undercover minor into an establishment to buy alcohol and that’s not entrapment? I don’t believe for one second, that they would knowingly serve alcohol to a minor. And considering most waitressing staff is in their twenties, maybe a mistake was made? A 7000 dollar fine and suspending a young person for thirty days is extreme. I wonder if the people that administer this “justice” are proud of what they do?Makes me laugh they have to carry your beer up the stairs at a near by bowling alley, because the stairway isn’t licensed for alcohol? But you can go shoot up on the sidewalk outside, in full view of the public. What a brain dead legal system we have. But maybe fines are mainly a form of revenue now and not really about justice.

Exploration Place names new executive director

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Before I make this post, I just want to respectfully acknowledge the unceded ancestral lands of the Lheidli T’enneh, on whose land we live, work and playWhat does the decolonizing of the museum sector mean exactly? Will the information be stripped of any facts that are untidy and may offend, until we have a sterile version of Canadian history?Will the people that built this country, be relegated to a dusty store room, because they did things that may offend modern day moral standard's? Will the museum focus more on the uncorroborated, oral history, of Stone Age people, living in Canada prior to settlement? Will there be emphasis on telling the tale of genocide, carried out by barbaric colonizers, while ignoring the barbarity these people themselves endured? It seems you may have an agenda beyond telling the history of Canada. I hope the museum does not become a hub of misinformation, used to weaponize history to suit someone’s narrative.

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