Prince George
An archive of my posts about my home in the traditional lands of the Lheidli T’enneh, aka the City of Prince George.
An archive of my posts about my home in the traditional lands of the Lheidli T’enneh, aka the City of Prince George.
A huge portion of Prince George owes its name to a man whose legacy is being reexamined in the wake of 215 bodies believed to belong to students of a residential school he once ran. Content warning: Rape, abuse, child death Note: A national Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide […]
Without our local paper, there are literally tens of thousands of dollars we wouldn’t have known were being spent.
With the pending removal of the Four Seasons Pool, the city of Prince George has the chance to add to its civic identity.
First, let’s get this out of the way: Kelly Road Secondary School was not named for John Kelly, at least not directly. I guarantee you that all of us have given more thought to this school’s name over the past few months than anyone did at the time it was originally created.
With the pending closure of the Northern, Prince George’s oldest department store, I am feeling sadness for the loss of their seasonal window displays. Here’s why.
I got into my zone.
With the nomination period now closed, I’m in election coverage mode at work. I’m organizing an event close to the beginning of the campaign, which is useful in that it will be the first out of the gate, but challenging in that it gives me a pretty short time period to prepare. Until Friday, I […]
Too many old white guys?
What if there was a mayor’s race and nobody came?
Rainbow flags and crosswalks aren’t symbols of a tolerant community. They’re symbols of the people who refused to let it off the hook for being intolerant, and demanded better.
‘Language opens doors’
I wrote a story this week about the Prince George District Teacher’s Association wanting a policy around snow days in the city. The gist of it is, they want schools to remain open for any students who show up, but want to make it clear classes– and the drive to get kids to them– is […]
Towards a visual identity for Prince George (the city).
I don’t have kids but I do have a niece I like hanging out with. She’s seven now and I realized that she virtually never shows up anywhere on my social media. I tend to not post a lot of pictures of people online and that goes more so for kids. I don’t have any […]
You don’t have to shovel rain, but you can’t build forts or have the experience of the full moon lighting up a dark night as it reflects off of it, either.
Ad nauseam
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