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Why giving civic space its indigenous name is everything and nothing.

Posted on 14 June 2015 and filed under articles, Best Of, big, main, Prince George

We just changed the name of another one last week, and basically no one noticed.

Posted on 11 June 2015 and filed under main, Prince George

Councillour Murry Krause suggests we rename Prince George’s main park to recognize a troubled past.

Posted on 10 June 2015 and filed under Indigenous, links, main, outbound, Prince George

Read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s report on residential schools anywhere.

Posted on 10 June 2015 and filed under Canada, Indigenous, main

Compared to past years, I’m finding very little in the way of new tunes that I unequivocally love.

Posted on 8 June 2015 and filed under articles, comments, main, music, personal

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission wants journalists to understand Aboriginal peoples. Here’s where to start.

Posted on 4 June 2015 and filed under Canada, Indigenous, journalism, main

did a magazine call your city “boring”!?!?! this survival guide will help you get through it!

Posted on 27 May 2015 and filed under articles, big, British Columbia, main

The people were consulted. The people said they weren’t consulted. What happened?

Posted on 26 May 2015 and filed under articles, cities, main, Prince George

Some of them had never been on it before.

Posted on 23 May 2015 and filed under articles, cities, links, main, outbound, Prince George

One of the discoveries of audio production discoveries I’m most grateful for is the layers of sound hidden in silence. This morning I went outside to record some bird song, but as soon as I had my headphones and microphone on, I started hearing whole new layers of crows, distant traffic, early-morning chores, a helicopter. […]

Posted on 22 May 2015 and filed under main, misc

“Hydro One has other employees to consider, people who might not feel comfortable working under or beside a man who has made it clear that sexually harassing women while they work is something fun that he’s entitled to do, and if they object they are failing in their duty to feel grateful they don’t have a vibrator in their ear.”

Posted on 17 May 2015 and filed under links, main, outbound, small

Just two weeks after the Prince George Free Press shut down, editor Bill Phillips is back, writing a column for the online-only 250News.com (which, incidentally, just celebrated its ten-year anniversary). Glad we’ll still have his voice.

Posted on 14 May 2015 and filed under main, media, Prince George, small

So yesterday, 241 people at CBC stations across the country, including a few I know, were told their jobs are “redundant”. That brings the total for this year alone to 1,400 cut jobs. I remember when I started at CBC. We had tens of millions more in our budget. We had a robust slate of […]

Posted on 17 April 2015 and filed under articles, big, Canada, CBC, journalism, main

Remembering a broadcasting legend.

Posted on 2 April 2015 and filed under articles, big, journalism, main, personal, Prince George

We’re a city with a giant wooden lumberjack for our mascot and a moose on our official coat of arms. Let’s embrace Comic Sans.

Posted on 1 April 2015 and filed under articles, design, main, Prince George