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.

“In the interior…people don’t think of education beyond grade twelve. The questions they ask at the end of the day are ‘How many trees did you cut today?’ or ‘How were things down in the mine?'”

Posted on 4 September 2014 and filed under articles, comments, Prince George

The desire to sell used video games after 8 pm may be the best thing to happen to democracy

Posted on 26 August 2014 and filed under articles, comments, main, Prince George

How a proposed neighbourhood in Blackburn could shape the future of the city

Posted on 18 August 2014 and filed under Prince George

Amazon is fast and cheap but it doesn’t open on Friday night to help launch a self-published magazine with poetry readings and tea.

Posted on 22 March 2014 and filed under articles, Best Of, big, cities, comments, main, Prince George

Library archives, Google searches and research projects, oh my!

Posted on 1 March 2014 and filed under articles, journalism, main, Prince George, radio

I heard rumours that in the 1920s, there was an African-American actor who had run a business in downtown Prince George. With a bit of delving I discovered Charles Sagar, an pioneer of the African-American theatre movement who later came to Prince George to cut hair on a floating barge. He also fought back against a city council who ordered police to clean up “N******town”. Here’s what I found out.

Posted on 28 February 2014 and filed under links, outbound, Prince George

After four years of eating at every non-franchise restaurant in Prince George, a local blogger is singling out the best in the bunch.

Posted on 25 February 2014 and filed under links, main, outbound, Prince George

Why I’m changing my online profiles to say I live in Lheidli T’enneh, and why you might want to, too.

Posted on 24 February 2014 and filed under articles, Best Of, comments, Indigenous, main, Prince George

What a difference a month (and some internal analysis) makes.

Posted on 23 February 2014 and filed under Prince George

2015 is a big year for the City of Prince George. The city will be celebrating its 100th birthday, the Canada Winter Games arrives, and the University of Northern BC turns 25.

Posted on 20 February 2014 and filed under CBC, main, nocomments, outbound, Prince George

In this special series, Daybreak goes inside one of the most notorious neighbourhoods in British Columbia to get the stories behind the statistics.

Posted on 2 February 2014 and filed under articles, big, CBC, comments, main, Prince George, radio

Just a few more livestreams and we can have full-on downtown surveillance.

Posted on 22 November 2013 and filed under comments, Prince George

Making direct democracy even more direct-er.

Posted on 16 October 2013 and filed under articles, comments, Prince George, technology

The city of Prince George is putting its budget consultations online tonight, with an e-Town Hall. “The first e-Town Hall meeting is designed to engage a broader and more diverse cross section of residents in dialogue leading to Council’s consideration of the 2014 Provisional Operating Budget.” Charelle Evelyn at the Prince George Citizen has been providing […]

Posted on 15 October 2013 and filed under links, outbound, Prince George

The Delta Hotel bets on downtown Prince George.

Posted on 7 October 2013 and filed under main, Prince George