Tweeks125

School District 57 report recommends closure of six schools by

PrinceGeorgeCitizen

Yeah because putting elementary school aged kids in with high schoolers has worked so well in the past here.

- Tweeks125

Does it make sense to drive an electric vehicle in Prince George?

PrinceGeorgeCitizen

I absolutely love my Mustang Mach e. I have had it for 2 years now and I drive it all year round, all over the province. BC definitely needs more chargers northbound from Prince George as that is the only highway that makes me worry with travel. Although I do not see myself getting rid of my secondary gas vehicle just yet, I like it for the back roads. Much easier to pack a Jerry can of gas as a "just incase" than a generator to go fishing and camping. Will I buy another one? yeah, I'm already picking out the colour and style lol. I do absolutely believe the goal of 2035 was unreasonable. But I also believe that removing our incentives and subsidies was a wrong move.

- Tweeks125

BCGEU strike extends to Prince George Regional Correctional Centre

PrinceGeorgeCitizen

The government ain't coming to the table because the government is broke. The average citizen does not get yearly increases in their wages. Not 1%, not 2%. Certainly not 3% or 4%. And it seems like every government agency is in the middle of a contract negotiation. Canada Post. These guys. The regional district is heading on strike shortly so our garbage is going to be affected. With a broke government, who do you think pays for these wage increases? And we certainly don't want our taxes going up which means the only way that these raises can go through and not cause us to go into more debt is if there is government funding cuts somewhere else. The math needs to math. And I'm not completely convinced these union heads know math very well.

- Tweeks125

McBride, Vanway likely to get new recycling depots

PrinceGeorgeCitizen

Well, at least some places are getting their recycling back. It'll be nice if the program can be expanded because I know a lot of people that quit recycling when we lost our recycling bins at the transfer stations. It's also really disheartening to know that every one of us that spent all that time doing the recycling and taking it to our manned transfer stations now know that it just went into the landfill anyways. Guess that means I shouldn't feel bad that I won't drive an hour to recycle and just Chuck it into my garbage now anyways since that's what was already happening even though I was recycling.

- Tweeks125

BC Hydro opens EV charging hub in Prince George

PrinceGeorgeCitizen

This is awesome. And anyone saying that there isn't enough EVS in PG has never bothered trying to charge their car at one. There has been several times where I have not been able to charge my car at Superstore and all the other chargers are slow Chargers, so unless you're going to be doing something for quite a while around them, there is no point to using them.

- Tweeks125

Service BC now closed along with all BC Liquor and BC Cannabis stores

PrinceGeorgeCitizen

Canada Post already ruined striking for all the other unions. The people are officially strike tired. It's not having the desired effect the unions want anymore. The people are turning on them. I don't know what they really expected to happen. Especially once they decided to shut down people's coping mechanism stores. Now I can't go and get my son's much-needed paperwork from service Canada (honestly the government should just put all the paperwork that service Canada has to give us online so we can just get it ourselves). The next one to go on strike is going to be the regional district. The signs are already made and they're going to be joining the these guys on the lines as well. On one side a fair contract is needed and on the other side these are taxpayer-funded and the taxpayers do not want an increase in their taxes at the moment. So pretty much what the unions are asking is that there be government funding cuts in other areas in order to give these guys more pay.

- Tweeks125

City staff recommending council say no to Hart U-Haul rental

PrinceGeorgeCitizen

Five letters of support and two are written by her. So really only three letters of support. If I was trying to get a business into a residential neighborhood I would be smart enough not to have any of the letters written by me. If you can't afford the extra piece of property then sell it. A U-Haul storage business open 7 days a week in a residential area is not appropriate. Prince George supports small businesses. But they need to make sense in the area that they are in. The small tax business makes sense in her home. A full out storage facility business in a residential neighborhood does not make sense.

- Tweeks125