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.

100 years isn’t that long.

Posted on 5 March 2015 and filed under articles, big, Indigenous, main, misc, Prince George

Parties, plaza, pizzazz.

Posted on 2 March 2015 and filed under articles, main, Prince George

He has been to Fort St John and Dawson Creek, though.

Posted on 26 February 2015 and filed under Canada, main, Prince George

“Prince George residents in general and members of the area business community in particular are desperate – bordering on teenage girl obsessed with the captain of the football team – to be recognized by the denizens of Greater Vancouver.”

Posted on 26 February 2015 and filed under British Columbia, links, outbound, Prince George

Neil Godbout did his own analysis of election spending in Prince George: “On the surface, it looks like Lyn Hall blew away the notion that elected office is earned, not bought, with his mayoral win. “Many people, including many would-be politicians, desperately want to believe that money can’t buy a seat at the table. Sadly, […]

Posted on 26 February 2015 and filed under outbound, politics, Prince George

Yesterday, Elections B.C. released the campaign financing disclosure forms from the 2014 municipal elections. The forms tells us how much politicians spent and received in their bid to get elected. I decided to explore some of the numbers.

Posted on 24 February 2015 and filed under main, politics, Prince George

One week into the Canada Winter Games: is it worth it?

Posted on 21 February 2015 and filed under articles, main, Prince George

Who was that band? What were those words? Where did that canoe come from? And other questions: answered.

Posted on 13 February 2015 and filed under Prince George

I am from Prince George. AMA

Posted on 12 February 2015 and filed under big, main, Prince George

Busy times. Next week, Prince George starts hosting the Canada Winter Games, one of the largest events in the country and the biggest to ever come to Prince George. At the same time, Prince Rupert is hosting the All-Native Basketball Tournament, an important event for the region. Our office is doing special coverage for both, […]

Posted on 6 February 2015 and filed under CBC, links, main, outbound, Prince George

Where Vancouver ends, where northern B.C. begins, and everything else in between.

Posted on 4 January 2015 and filed under British Columbia, links, outbound, Prince George, small

I thought I’d do a quick round-up of reaction to the news that former Prince George mayor Shari Green lost the bid to become the next Conservative candidate for Cariboo-Prince George.

Posted on 18 December 2014 and filed under articles, main, Prince George

John Backhouse, mayor of Prince George from 1986 to 1996 has weighed in on the “Is Prince George north?” debate: “Put this into the context of when the slogan was first introduced. In 1967 the city was slowly recovering from a very tough recession. The self respect of the city was low, what we needed […]

Posted on 20 November 2014 and filed under links, outbound, Prince George

As a follow-up to realtor Dean Birks suggesting the word “north” should be abandoned by the people and promoters of Prince George, we had a discussion about it with him on CBC. We also had Ken Coates, founding vice-president of UNBC and author of The Forgotten North: A History of Canada’s Provincial Norths on to defend […]

Posted on 20 November 2014 and filed under links, main, misc, outbound, Prince George

Is using the word “north” to describe Prince George hurting its reputation?

Posted on 20 November 2014 and filed under links, main, outbound, Prince George