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.
Canada is often thought of as a nation that is safe, accommodating, and apologetic. Some might even call us boring, but Andrew Kurjata argues that, our history is anything but boring. Instead, our nation’s dark and tumultuous history has largely been erased from the collective identity. Join Andrew as he explores just some of local history in the city of Prince George that challenges our boring narrative.
tweeting the transition from “Fort George Park” to “Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park”
Why giving civic space its indigenous name is everything and nothing.
We just changed the name of another one last week, and basically no one noticed.
Councillour Murry Krause suggests we rename Prince George’s main park to recognize a troubled past.
Bill Phillips on the latest hire at city hall, Rob van Adrichem from UNBC: “Give them credit for hiring locally. That’s two in a row, as city manager Kathleen Soltis was named Beth James’ successor earlier this year. “Mayor Lyn Hall and the new council elected last fall, wasted no time in getting rid of […]
The people were consulted. The people said they weren’t consulted. What happened?
Some of them had never been on it before.
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.
“basically woods walls built against wood walls”
It’s a little late to blame CBC for print’s demise.
Remembering a broadcasting legend.
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.
Cast yer votes.
“The old Indian village, a few hundred yards up the Fraser river from this town, will soon be a mass of smoldering ruins.”
Ad nauseam
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