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image via artthreat.net Yesterday, the federal budget came down, and included was the announcement that the CBC would be getting a 10% cut. While there is obviously a serious side to this, members of Twitter took to the humorous side, reimagining what you might call popular CBC programs if they were pared down. Here are […]

Posted on 30 March 2012 and filed under CBC, comments, social media

What if you could get an email everyday telling you what your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were thinking, where they went, and what they saw on this exact day in past? With social networks and new tools, we may be creating that future.

Posted on 29 March 2012 and filed under Best Of, main, social media

Five things I need to do once, then forget about.

Posted on 28 March 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, comments, main, personal

Saying goodbye to a job I loved.

Posted on 19 March 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, CFUR, main, personal

In the wake of it being disclosed that Prince George Mayor Shari Green had the most expensive campaign in city history (in which she spent more than all five Kamloops mayoral candidates combined [source]), there’s a small debate surrounding municipal elections and financing. Speaking to CBC, Councillor Brian Skakun made the following comments: “It makes […]

Posted on 16 March 2012 and filed under articles, British Columbia, comments, politics, Prince George

November 2011: Prince George mayoral candidate Shari Green outlines her leadership style: “Public confidence will be restored when council leads by example.” “We need to live within our means, with financial discipline and by finding efficiencies.” “I will challenge our staff to find cost savings in every department, and efficiencies in every operation.” March 2012: “City […]

Posted on 15 March 2012 and filed under articles, comments, Prince George

waiting in line at Vancouver’s top-rated restaurant   I’ve posted before about why I think using Foursquare is a worthwhile thing, but it wasn’t very well-written. So I’m going to try again with a concrete example. Last night I had an excellent dinner at one of Vancouver’s best-reviewed restaurants. It’s #1 on Trip Advisor. It […]

Posted on 10 March 2012 and filed under social media

I got a couple of comments on my post about policy surrounding teachers and speaking in public about the state of education in the province that I think are worth sharing here. The first came from Bob Cotter, who shared the policy for School District 46 (The Sunshine Coast). Section 3.17 reads: 3.17 EMPLOYEE FREEDOM […]

Posted on 8 March 2012 and filed under British Columbia

Every once in a while I manage to figure out something that there isn’t already an awesome guide to. When that happens, I like to put it here in order to contribute to the general knowledge of Teh Internets. In the interest of that, here is my guide to “Getting More Memory By Installing Apps […]

Posted on 6 March 2012 and filed under how to

Here in British Columbia, classes are cancelled as teachers escalate their job action. This has been coming for a while, and at Daybreak we’ve been looking around for guests to provide different perspectives on the story. Among those we figured it would be good to hear from are teachers. This led me to reading up on […]

Posted on 4 March 2012 and filed under British Columbia, comments

CBC just launched a new music portal. If you’ve used CBC Radio 3, it’s like that, only bigger. If you haven’t used CBC Radio 3 before, it’s basically a whole bunch of streaming music stations of different genres, plus on-demand tracks by independent Canadian artists, alongside on-demand concerts and interviews from all over the musical […]

Posted on 13 February 2012 and filed under CBC, music

Live At ArtSpace by Jamie Bell Remember how I just wrote about supporting live music? Remember how I felt bad that I missed writing about Jamie Bell’s show? Well Jamie Bell has found a way to make me feel better about missing that. He just uploaded Live At the ArtSpace, a recording of that show, […]

Posted on 11 February 2012 and filed under music

Hey, new census results! Statistics Canada released its latest population numbers this morning. I looked up Prince George and found three different things: census subdivision, census agglomeration, and population centre. I had no ideas what these are, so I looked them up. Here’s what I’ve found. Census subdivision: “Area that is a municipality or an […]

Posted on 8 February 2012 and filed under Prince George

Following up on this post, I did email mayor and council my questions about the positions eliminated at city hall. Here is the reply received from Mayor Shari Green: “Andrew, on behalf of Council, here are responses to your questions below… 1.    Why the elimination of the environment division not proactively disclosed to citizens? On […]

Posted on 7 February 2012 and filed under articles, comments, Prince George

This post was originally titled “Challenging Prince George mayor and council to show “courageous leadership.” I’ve changed it because I don’t enjoy the tone of “challenging,” but left this note because it’s fair to know the original content/context. Yesterday, I went on Daybreak North with this story: The City of Prince George has cut its […]

Posted on 7 February 2012 and filed under articles, comments, Prince George