If you go to my homepage, you will see the following words: “I have a blog for long thoughts, Tumblr for shorter ones, and Twitter for even less.” I try to mean that literally. Occasionally I’ll put short thoughts on my blog and long ones on Twitter, but I do actually envision these as separate experiences. Twitter is stream-of-conscious stuff. I […]
Prince George council just signed a contract to pay a consulting company $313,720 to conduct a core services review. With a population of 80,000 (somewhere between the “actual” population and the “population served”), this amounts to roughly $3.90 per person. How does that compare to other cities that have done a core review. Here’s a […]
In the aftermath of a deadly blast.
At AVC.com last week, there was a discussion around “Where do you get your news?” A lot of the discussion was how in the age of the internet (mostly Facebook and Twitter), people expect news to find them rather than for them to go seek it out. That’s telling for people (like me!) who trade […]
In light of the 30th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Frank Peebles has a nice article in the Prince George Citizen today outlining a couple of key charter cases with links to northern B.C. There’s links to the allowance of Sikh turbans as part of the RCMP uniform, and then there’s same-sex […]
Under the headline “P.G. to Hire Puppy Police”, Opinion250 writes: “The City of Prince George, which recently dismantled its environmental services division, let go 9 employees and announced 19 other vacant positions would not be filled, has posted a call for applications for one of two part time positions as a “ Dog License Canvasser”” The comments section is full of people scratching their heads over why […]
I just went through the process of interviewing candidates for the station manager job at CFUR Radio. It was a pretty extensive question line touching on lots of different areas, and we got a diversity of answers on most questions. But there was one question that had an identical answer every time. When asked how […]
Whether it succeeds or fails, an ambitious real estate project will change the future of northern B.C.
Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently.
I played Monopoly when I was a kid. And it always seemed to take forever and boil down to sheer tedium near the end. This is probably partly because I had a short attention span, but also because I was playing it wrong. As pointed out by the Campaign For Real Monopoly, I didn’t know this […]
A correction to an earlier post, clarifying how costs and revenues of free downtown parking in Prince George is calculated.
Is downtown parking actually making money?
Of everything I’ve read about the Conservative budget, the most interesting is Andrew Coyne’s column putting things into some context: “Be under no illusion about this: the five years of “austerity” on which we are now embarked will be, after inflation, adjusting for population growth, the five biggest spending years in the history of the country […]
Last night, the Junos, ostensibly the Canadian version of the Grammy, took place. And as an advocate for the great music this country has I have to weigh in on Michael Buble’s win. For a Christmas album. There’s a lot of head–scratching going on over this one for those who don’t follow the ins and […]
The Prince George Free Press has an interesting take on city council’s decision to bring back pay parking downtown: “Council’s decision to possibly bring back parking meters is purely a business decision. The bottom line has been negatively impacted by the removal of parking meters, so “bring ‘em back.” It flies in the face of […]
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