have a great weekend everyone…cheer’s

I find a certain amount of irony that people who live next to a school zone tend to often be the worst offenders for motor vehicle act infractions (speeding, failing to yield to bus, backing up without looking and so on) I was walking my nieces home from school recently and a woman who was obviously in a hurry sped through the school zone then pulled into a driveway 3 houses from the school ran inside came back out talking on her cell phone and proceeded to back up without looking even though numerous kids were walking home.

Ironic because I can almost bet she complains cause people don’t respect the school zone and here she is failing to respect the laws of a school zone. I took her license down and gave It to the proper people to deal with.

What I like to do is actually go the speed limit threw school zones and see how many pissed off drivers are on my tailgate you would be amazed how many people don’t care and that’s we’re cops should do there speed trap.

Ethnicgate.
Woods center.
BCR Scandal.
Billions & Billions of cost overruns that would make the NDP look like amateurs.

When will the truth come out?

Allow me to be extremely hypothetical and also allow me to draw a wide parallel based on our situation at hand. Do you suppose (I’m too lazy to find out)if Memphis, Tenn. has an “OCP” too? And if they do (did), could a wealthy or influential person (or group) approach the Memphis city council to ask or demand a re-zoning of a property? Thereby feeling comfortable running roughshod over the local townfolk? Let us presume you live in Valleyview up the Hart and you had a property titled, oh, let’s say “Prince Ranierland” for instance. Let us also presume you had room for a big honkin’ semi-circular driveway. Let us also presume one wanted to plant their spouse right beside that driveway. (Kinda like where a guy like Elvis is interred) All that would be needed to get it re-zoned from Residential One to Cemetary Two would be to approach Memphis city council with a cheque book or a political I.O.U. Right? (I’m still being hypothetical). After all is said and done over this “mistake” IMO (supposing an O.C.P. did exist in both cities) would the phrases O.C.Plan on their binders have the words in brackets underneath have the footnote “Subject to change without notice” on the cover? In closing, if this is the end of the matter, may I suggest that maybe all but one of city councillors can wear medallions with the letters “TCB” in keeping with their decision making processes?

Thanks to the city for clearing my street. I sent a email to the city with concerns about huge ruts in the now etc and they responded by grading the road he next day. Thanks so much :)

Weather has been great! Have a wonderful, safe weekend everyone!

Does anyone know what that new construction is at the bottom of Ospika hill? It seems to overhang the sidewalk. The set back seems really wrong there. Did Council amend the OCP there too so we can have another fast food drive thru right on Ospika? Their license to ruin our city is a free for all now.

The city allowed new business offices to pop up there, instead of saying no to rezoning and utilizing the empty office space downtown. So much for their concern with downtown revitalization.

Well another week is drawing to a close and as I reflect over this past week, can’t help but conclude…another dismal performance by Mayor Green and Council…except for Brian Skakun. Green once again displayed contempt for neighbourhoods and ignorance of the “OCP” by stating that it’s a “living document” – hence it can be changed by the smell of money….why have a plan…if the plan can change with the drop of a loonie:(

Wow, that seems like a terrible fit for that neighbourhood peegee. Aren’t the residents a little upset? Don’t neighbourhoods matter to our Coucil anymore?

I’m not exactly sure what the process was like in this instance, or if the neighbours really knew what was going on. Seems like the city likes to keep things quiet until the change is done.
I know I’m going to start paying attention to council meeting agenda the few days before the meeting and look into exactly what the city and council is up to.

Kudos to the city for patching some of the pot holes that have opened up recently…a lot faster this year than last.

And Brian Skakun is the only member of city council that understands people don’t buy property next to a place drug addicts live because they don’t want that in their area? What is the point of zoning if the city council can just change the zoning on a whim?

Brian for Mayor of PG…..

How old are you Denaljo? Too young to remember the NDP reign of terror I bet.

The city likes building permit money too! In order for the building on Ospika to be built outside the downtown core I bet they had to pay a premium for that permit. The best thing the city of pg could do for downtown is make all the property they own into green space. Even Sherry could put up a plaque at each park and they could bus in the recovery Center people to hang out on sunny days.

Just seen a jet flying over us. Anybody try to flag it down and sell it some fuel ? ;)

Does anyone pay attention to spelling and punctuation any more? Sloppy English exhibits sloppy thinking.

Does anyone remember that logging truck accident where the truck rolled over out by Nukko Lake last summer? And all the comments here about the trucker speeding, driving dangerously, etc.? I do.

Well the story ended in court 2 weeks ago. The driver’s company has GPS installed on the trucks, and guess what? He wasn’t speeding at all. Further, the cop attending the scene made some serious errors. The judge threw the case out of court, commended the driver for his actions following the tip-over (He swerved to miss an animal AND had proof), and then proceeded to give the female police officer an ‘education’ on how to do her job and not waste the taxpayers’ money.

For the record, I was not the driver, and yes there are some crazy truck drivers out there, but there are some good ones as well.

Why would anyone unless forced, build in the downtown cesspool. Only the city of PG sees value in the land downtown except for the commonwealth group who figured a fast flip would line their pockets and now face legal action. Didn’t work out as well for them as the PG hotel flip which hosed the taxpayer for an extra 1/2 million.

Harbinger. If the Mayor and Council, tried to amend an OCP, or change some zoning to allow a Womens Treatment Center to be located in the City of Qualicum, the residents would take action to have them certified, as insane, and put them into institutions,.

Qualicum Council, would never in their wildest dreams, contemplate pushing around the people of Qualicum.

Why are the people of Prince George being treated as less than full fledged citizens??

It is going to take action by all citizens of Prince George to stop the City from doing whatever it pleases whenever it pleases. They have had carte blanche for much to long.

Denaljo

Right after we get the full story for:

Bingogate
Casinogate
Fudgeit Budget
Fast Ferry Fiasco

@ sardonic – “Does anyone pay attention to spelling and punctuation any more? Sloppy English exhibits sloppy thinking.”

You are right and I agree. Scruffy, in the first post in this column wishes everyone “cheer’s” (sic)

Cheer’s is possessive and in that sentence doesn’t even make sense. It should be a simple plural “cheers”.

Buzzinga went “threw” a school zone. Really? I wonder what he threw while going through the school zone? Lucky he didn’t get charged for littering.

Then there is “cause” for “because”, middle finger “just SEEN” a jet, while I can bet you that he “just SAW” a jet.

The much abbreviated way of communicating through texting has almost eradicated proper spelling and grammar (and don’t even get me started on the dumbed-down public shcool system that pushes our kids through the system and gives them a graduation certificate when they can’t even spell!)

I spent many years in management and had to hire a lot of people over that time. I insisted on a handwritten application. It told me a lot and was a pretty good indicator of the communication skills of potential employees.

Now, y’all have a gud dae, cheer’s to evrybuddy, and if I seen anything wurth righting about, i’ll be shur to let you no. :-)

HST gate
Convention Centre gate
BC Place gate

@ sardonic – “Does anyone pay attention to spelling and punctuation any more? Sloppy English exhibits sloppy thinking.”

You are right and I agree. Scruffy, in the first post in this column wishes everyone “cheer’s” (sic)

Cheer’s is possessive and in that sentence doesn’t even make sense. It should be a simple plural “cheers”.

Buzzinga went “threw” a school zone. Really? I wonder what he threw while going through the school zone? Lucky he didn’t get charged for littering.

Then there is “cause” for “because”, middle finger “just SEEN” a jet, while I can bet you that he “just SAW” a jet.

The much abbreviated way of communicating through texting has almost eradicated proper spelling and grammar (and don’t even get me started on the dumbed-down public shcool system that pushes our kids through the system and gives them a graduation certificate when they can’t even spell!)

I spent many years in management and had to hire a lot of people over that time. I insisted on a handwritten application. It told me a lot and was a pretty good indicator of the communication skills of potential employees.

Now, y’all have a gud dae, cheer’s to evrybuddy, and if I seen anything wurth righting about, i’ll be shur to let you no. :-)

shcool

touche :-)

I would hire you in a nano-second.

Purdy hi fallutin bunch 250 iz attractin these daze.

Oh, by the way on that trucker incident? He also received an apology.

I wonder if the Free Press which made it a front page news iten will bother with a follow up article?

I could not return the favor because of the holier than thou attitude:)

should be ‘item’.

Don’t forget the Liberals track record in BC:
BC Rail
Vancouver Convention Centre (nearly double the budgeted costs).
BC Place renovations
BC Place naming rights
The Olympics (will never know the true costs, as they buried some of the costs in various BC Government Ministries)
Ignoring the balance budget law in the early 2000s and still is
HST Fiasco
The fast ferry fiasco (the sale of the ferries for less than scrap value)
The huge increase in log exports

Yes the NDP was not perfect (then again no government is), but the Liberals seem to be worse.

Read it on Global News: Global BC | City blocks high-density seniors housing project in Dunbar

“The process that has taken place over the past four months demonstrates that every project is reviewed carefully, on its merit, and that the city is strongly committed to ensuring new projects under the interim rezoning policy are affordable and fit with local neighbourhoods.”

http://www.globaltvbc.com/city+blocks+high-density+seniors+housing+project+in+dunbar/6442823018/story.html

Wow, a Council that wants to ensure incongruous projects don’t offend if interjected into pre-existing neighbourhoods! Where do we get one of those?

How did we ever manage in the days before “Official Community Plans”?

Has there ever been one of these things ever devised, anywhere, that has ever been followed?

Has anyone ever added up what we pay for all those people who sit around colouring maps of where THEY think this should go, or that should go, and what THEIR ‘vision’ is for the future? Only to have someone who has enough money behind them to completely override THAT vision, and impose their own, make the whole exercise an absolute waste of time and money?

The building at Ospika and Ferry sounds like it will be housing the BC Safety Authority in half of the building (I think they are currently located on Westwood??).

I predict a few more accidents at that intersection.

– zoned C6/P1
– 0m setbacks

It actually overhangs the sidewalk! Who would EVER allow that?

Council unanimously voted down the project proposed for 2340-2360 Western Ave. after hearing a steady stream of neighbourhood angst during a public hearing on the project Monday night.

After listening to neighbours’ concerns about high-density housing in a neighbourhood of single-family homes, a lack of surface parking, traffic egress problems on the dead-end Western Avenue and the already difficult task of turning left onto 23rd Street because of heavy traffic, council agreed the project was too flawed to proceed.

Read more: http://www.nsnews.com/news/City+rejects+townhouses/8056185/story.html#ixzz2My0IrrnS

Paying tribute to the long gone downtown canopies?

Looks like the Core Review has already been filed in the annals of history, meaning gathering dust on some out of the way shelf. Nobody mentions it anymore or the 10% savings in every department!

The four goals of the plan includes communicating with citizens in a meaningful way; recognizing community interests and respond quickly with accurate information; boosting participation in local government and the public process; and develop relationships that bridge differences and foster dialogue.

Nanaimo Mayor John Ruttan said the plan mirrors what council had been expecting when it approved the communications manager position last year.

“I think this plan is exactly what I had in mind, though I can’t speak for all of council,” said Ruttan. “I think you really need to learn a great deal about the community before you can step and and say ‘OK, I’m the spokesman,’ and I think Philip has done a very good job. One of the things I think we’ve been derelict in doing is communicating with the taxpayers of Nanaimo and this plan addresses that concern. Instead of being reactive, this shows how we can be proactive.”

http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/195460291.html

No cost for a change of address on your drivers licence just a sticky added to your licence with the new address,right. Read on.

Now to get an air ticket, take the two day course, money spent okay no problem there, that is expected. Also write a test at the end of the course, no problem, pass. Go to the BC access centre and find out one has to do the test again there, even though you already did the test at the end of the course and passed.

Well okay, now find out most of the questions do not match what was on the course, pay money, fail. Read the government booklet discover it and the course are almost two different animals. Do the test second time, pass, pay more money. Go to unsmiling lady at the counter. Instead of getting a free sticky on back of your drivers licence showing your upgrade she takes your licence cuts it up takes your picture and wants more money for a new licence. Now one has no photo id for a couple of weeks.

What a bureaucratic costly mess.

To all the Fiberal trolls on this site. Like I said; all the over runs by the NDP pale in comparison to the record levels run up by the Fiberals, If you took BC Place, Canada convention center, Sea to Sky road, Olympic over runs not to mention the over $80 BILLION in p3 debt alone you could buy a lot of fast ferries; sink them all and you would have a highway to Victoria from Vancouver! Even Liberals in their own party are getting sick and tired of all the BS their fearless leaders are spewing these days. If you had half a brain you could look up the governments own numbers and you would find that the NDP out performed the liberals in all ares of the economy. Except running up the debt which the Fiberals have a lock on that record.

Everyone knows abut earth hour, right. That one hour out of the year where everyone can turn off their lights for one hour out of the year to save mother earth and feel all warm and cozy about ones self. Same as going to church once a week to feel holy and pure, to recharge for another week of messing with your fellow man, just like our city council.

Anyhow here is a couple of interesting links to the truth of earth hour.

http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2013/03/04/manufacturing-earth-hour/

http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2012/03/28/the-enormous-ceo-salaries-behind-earth-hour/

There are more but you get the idea.

Still, Liberals are the best bet. There’s no competition which is unfortunate.

“the NDP out performed the liberals in all ares of the economy”

yea equalization payments from Ottawa because we became a welfare province under the NDP!

Dix is just trying to avoid releasing his platform of higher taxes and borrowing.

Every time the NDP Has gotten into power in BC which is 3 times they have caused the economy of the province to tank made decisions that cost jobs and investment and have catered to environmentalists and I have no reason to believe if they get into power again that things will change.

The Socreds and Liberals are not angels by any means but when they took over from the NDP every time they had to fight to bring investors and jobs back to BC Adrian Dix is old guard and if he gets into power we can kiss BCs economy goodbye for another 10 yrs.

exactly Dearth! Enough said right there.

“Looks like the Core Review has already been filed in the annals of history, meaning gathering dust on some out of the way shelf.”

One of the main jobs of the City Engineering department is to design and build additional supports and gussets for the shelves at city hall for all the reports and studies commissioned but never acted upon.

Of special concern is the D area as it holds the downtown section. In this part of the building they also had to beef up the floor right down to bedrock:)

Oh our 1st world problems! Just be thankful we don’t live in North Korea or Sudan or a lot of other places in this world. Be thankful for what you have.

Just a reminder to all that we here in Canada are lucky to have some of these problems. I’d bet there are people in other countries that would kill for these types of problems. That said, our problems are all relative and we should never give up speaking up when the time is right or something is wrong.

hey seamutt
reading you post about earh hour and churches reminds me of a saying.

“going to church once a week and calling yourself religous is like walking into your garage and calling yourself a car”

point being, it takes more than just lip service to be anything.

Love the weather, we are having this winter

Every time the BC Liberals get into power all we hear about are back room deals, cost over runs…even when having a weigh scale built…obscene CEO salaries, gold plated pensions, and severance allowances that would feed a family of four for life….

We hear about BC residents being turned away from hospital emergency rooms, put in hospital beds in closets~and hospital Tim Hortons outlets. Seniors care centers are being closed and understaffed…children living in poverty is the worst in Canada.

And why? Because in their wisdom they cut Corporate income taxes from 15% to 10% all while they racked up the largest deficit budgets in BC history.

Anyone that continues to support these goons is daft. OMHO

School Zones and the Speed Limit. I don,t make the Law of 30 kmh, don’t break the Law and you wont get a Ticket and the Tailgater, you just can’t help him, he is the one with the Problem not you.

Haha, Here we go ! I am an employer and have been for a very long period of time. I create work, make it happen and get very heavily taxed at every end under the Liberals. I have a dozen employees that pay a ton of tax because there is work for all under the liberals. I am talking over 2 grand per paycheck each in tax deductions ! Each time the ndp were in power, we were completely shut down. We went to just the principles of the business trying to hang on and not one contract for a year at a time. All employees laid off ! No revenue to the province. So my point is we pay a ton of taxes, keep the ball rolling or go back to watching people sit on the couch and expect a government to support them with a lot less revenue !

For those that are intersted in ferries here is some current news that we never hear about.

http://northerninsights.blogspot.ca/2013/01/bcs-slow-ferry-fiasco.html

E-MAILING FROM THIS SITE

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN HOW TO GET THE SEND TO SHOW UP ON YOUR SCREEN AFTER YOU HAVE ENTERED WHAT YOU WANT TO E-MAIL. EVERYTHING COMES UP JUST FINE EXCEPT THE SEND BUTTON IS BELOW THE MESSAGE LINE AND WILL NOT SCROLL UP

Anyone care to dispute ‘checkitouts’ post?

There is a tonne (that’s a metric ton) of rhetorical liberal bashing going on but here we have actual historical data bearing witness to the track record of the NDP. People should vote with their brains instead of their emotions. Say no to Dix!

Right on checkitout!

Under the last NDP government, BC went from being a “have” province to being a “have not” province. I certainly remember the financial hardship that I and many many others suffered under the NDP and their policies.

While I am not at all happy with the performance of our current Liberal government, I would much rather have a right wing or centre right wing government in power than suffer under the left wing government that will most assuredly exist with Adrian Dix. Under a right-wing or centre-right wing government, we all have the opportunity to benefit! More employment, more taxes being paid and a generally healthier economy.

With an NDP government, the only people that will still be employed are our already very well compensated government employees, nurses and teachers who will be lining up at the alter of Sir Adrian demanding even more compensation and benefits. With the rest of us collecting welfare, I wonder where Sir Adrian will get the tax revenue needed to reward the Unions that run the NDP!

While I shudder at the thought of Christy Clark running (ruining?) my province, I gag and vomit at the thought of Adrian Dix being in charge. Oops, I mean Jim Sinclair being in charge!!

“That said, our problems are all relative and we should never give up speaking up when the time is right or something is wrong.”

Well said! It ticks me off when some characters voice their own opinion here and then follow up by denouncing comments which differ from theirs as whining and moaning!

Friends keep pressing the enter button and the page will scroll down to where you can send it

Friends keep pressing the enter button and the page will scroll down to where you can send it

“There is a tonne (that’s a metric ton) of rhetorical liberal bashing going on but here we have actual historical data bearing witness to the track record of the NDP.”

There is historical and then there is real time in relation to the fiberals.

They are all dog Sh.. as far as I am concerned. What we need is a change of dog pile then in four years another change of dog pile. This present bunch of malcontents has been in long enough.

I just wish Adrian Dix would return the $70,000 he received in severence pay for resiging after wrong doings while with the Glen Clark NDP gov. Now they bring him back to run the province. He could not even remember if he paid his Translink fare when caught. Now he wants to be a leader. Give me a break.

Too bad the coservative party in BC can’t get things together….there seems to be no other alternatives. The Conservatives promise of doing away with the carbon tax is a good start….what else have they got to offer?

Time for my weekly complaint about my fellow drivers. I’ll ignore the left lane bandits this week since it’s obvious they’ll never get it right. Instead, let’s talk about making a turn.

First, when you’re in the roundabout approaching your exit why you do so many of you refuse to signal your intent to exit? Are the rest of us just supposed to guess your intent?

Second, there is no right hand turn lane at Ospika and 15th (heading East onto 15 or South on to Ospika) nor is there one at Victoria for turning on to Patricia. There is however, a solid white line. I’m sure there are more example but those are the two that I always notice. As a motorcyclist those are two of the scariest corners for me.

There’s more but I don’t want to hog all the complaining. :)

So I guess if BC under the NDP made us a have not province…it only goes that we must be a ‘have it all’ province under the BC Liberals?

I think you might be right, we have a carbon tax now, we have higher fees on everything now, we have the opportunity to travel to Quesnel or Vanderhoof for basic medical services now..heck we even have bus service to vancouver for medical treatment instead of wasting money on those pesky northern hospitals.

We have the Sea to Sky highway..a ferry system that is being prepped for privatization…private health care clinics..smart meters..a 20 cell womens correction center..$300,000 flashing signs on the outskirts of town…yup your right we have it all and more.

If I think real hard, one thing stands out as a positive…they got rid of photo radar. Not bad after 11 years.

axman: “Second, there is no right hand turn lane at Ospika and 15th (heading East onto 15 or South on to Ospika)”

Let us start with the basics before we blme drivers. Line painting in this city is a joke.

I just went to google earth to see street view images from April 2012 at that intersection. There were no lane lines on the right turn from Ospika nor on the right turn from 15th.

We not only drive in this town with sporadic lane markings being visible in the winter, but also years of worn out lines.

I, in particular, just love that whole part of Ospika, because the so-called bike lane is not a bike kane in the winter. It is a snow dump … and then the snow is cleared at the intersections … why? I can only surmise because the super who looks after snow clearing and makes decsions about what gets celared and what does not figures that area is what? … let me hear it … all together now … A RIGHT TURN LANE …. put there courtesy of the snow clearing super ….

And then, in the summer, since there are no NO PARKING signs, it is a part of the road which is used (on both sides) for overflow parking for soccer, the exhibiion, events at the CN Centre, pub nights … etc. etc.

It is simply put, no-man’s land where wahtever your sweet heart desires goes …. A judge would have a field day with someone who receives a ticket being defended by the right person who has his/her wits about them.

“So I guess if BC under the NDP made us a have not province…it only goes that we must be a ‘have it all’ province under the BC Liberals?”

Have not refers to the equalization payment which goes to some provinces. We no longer get them because the province pays more into the federal system to put it into the plus side of the federal equation.

In my opinion, the main reason for that, especially in recent years, is because the manufacturing provinces – Ontario and Quebec – have taken a major hit with the downturn in the US economy. Canada’s economic cycles consist of manufacturing leading then resources leading …. when the going is good in the east, it is not good in the west.

Now Newfoundland has thrown everyone for a loop because of its entering into the oil business.

GRIZZLY1 for Premier

SKAKUN For Mayor

“heck we even have bus service to vancouver for medical treatment instead of wasting money on those pesky northern hospitals”
What a way to twist a fantastic service that gets us access to specialists that we are simply not big enough to have and turn it into your personal political spewings. Bravo!
Once we hit double digit unemployment again I guess we will have time to drive ourselves to the lower mainland eh? ;)

So let us talk about lines on the road.

Has anyone taken a close look at the lines painted on Winnipeg St. with the new centre turning lane running from 4th to the lights at Parkwood. A solid line adjacent to the outside lanes and a broken line right next to it on the inside.

The only place wher the solkid line stops is directly at an intersection. But one is supposed to get into that turning lane BEFORE the intersection. So how does one do that without crossing a solid line?

If I were a betting man I would put money up front to bet that JIM13135 has a union career position or is retired from the same.

I won’t fight you on the carbon tax.

..but you can’t blame politics for baby boomers taxing our health care system. This problem is nation wide – not just BC.

…and if you ever needed to take that bus for medical services that we don’t have here I am sure that you wouldn’t be putting it down. Come to think of it – the medical bus service to the lower mainland sounds much more like an NDP idea than a liberal plan – they must be getting soft!

…and I’m all for selling the ferry system – it would certainly be run better as a for profit venture than what we are paying for now.

…and the sea to sky highway – try to convince the parents and relatives of the those killed on that highway that this wasn’t money well spent.

…Smart Meters – welcome to the 21st century! Do you own a cell phone – do you drive a car – do you have a flat screen TV. You are more likely to die from your TV falling on you than from radiation from a smart meter.

…and where do YOU think we should put female prisoners?

…$300,000 flashing signs have caused me to be a little more cautious and aware of road conditions. These are put there to help save lives and I applaud the installations.

…and you are right – no more photo radar. But let me ask you this – when you saw a van on the side of the road – did you slow down?

“I, in particular, just love that whole part of Ospika, because the so-called bike lane is not a bike kane in the winter. It is a snow dump … and then the snow is cleared at the intersections … why? I can only surmise because the super who looks after snow clearing and makes decsions about what gets celared and what does not figures that area is what? … let me hear it … all together now … A RIGHT TURN LANE …. put there courtesy of the snow clearing super ….”

It doesn’t become a right turn lane on the whim of the guy driving the plow. Take a look at the width of the street next time you’re there and ask yourself how any sane person can believe that is a turn lane. There’s a reason so many people drive on the sidewalk there while making their illegal (and dangerous) turn.

I wonder how many people have failed their driver’s test on that final right turn onto 15th off of Ospika.

Sometimes people post comments that really make me wonder…

Jim13135, you commented we even have bus service to Vancouver for medical treatment instead of wasting money on those pesky northern hospitals.

Please tell me again how this is a bad thing? My parents have used and are grateful for this service as are many other people who need to travel to Vancouver to meet with specialists that Prince George is simply too small to have. Others have travelled to Prince George for services not offered in their smaller communities. I appreciate my tax dollars being used to provide this service, instead of it being used for just another public sector wage increase or give away to big labour.

You also mention that we have the Sea to Sky Highway, but you fail to mention the Island Highway that the NDP built. Remember that one? It was built at a far greater cost due to the NDP’s policy of only allowing unionized labour to bid on the work.

You also mention our ferry system being prepped for privatization. Let’s not for a moment forget how inefficient it is in it’s present state. I’m not suggesting that it should be privatized, but it like many of our government services are in dire need of a complete overhaul!

As far as I’m concerned, the status quo is long overdue for a major shakeup. The NDP and big labour are the very last people that would dare consider anything like this.

Don’t believe me?? Elect an NDP government and then watch what happens!

How many of you think that North Korea will maybe carry out it’s threat to send a nuclear bomb into the U.S.?

Although I question The NSRW Society’s ever changing program, I wish them well to help the many women who require the desperate need to get the help they deserve. One concern still remains to the now $6500/month and the ability to really help those women who reside in Prince George and the permitted amendments to the OCP, that may or may not largely involve out of city /province security and fenced in patients. The reuse of the 10 acre residential property (an old school – solely centered around residetial lots) was purchased in June 2011 by a #’d Company under the guise to the social wellness of Prince George. The property owners, businessmen Craig Wood (Wood Wheaton) and Brian Fehr (Bid Group of Companies ){ with $ woes and Provincial ties to the Wood Innovasion and Design Center} and in 2011 as a board member again seems to be in another financial struggle with the Province at {Baldy Hughes}). These two big $$ businessmen are the two culprits IMO who started this BS with their attitude of “business as usual” deal. Big $$ brought business into a underdeveloped quiet residential neighborhood. Dave McWalter (L&M Engineering) started the ball rolling in working with then project manager of NSRW Society Marshall Smith (campaign manager of $80,000 to Mayor Green). Rod Bellman of( Rona ) and (treasurer of the board to NSRW society) sits quetly in the background after a timely move out of the Haldi neighborhood. Albert Koehler (counciller of PG) also sits quietly as he too moved in (did his homework digging into his concerns of surrounding properties and where they may be heading) and timely moved out of the Haldi area. With his 30 years in the area, Mr. Oland states his written concerns (March 4, 2013 public hearing) about some of his Haldi neighbors acting heavy handedly to sway other neighbors and to those who have only lived in the area less than 5 years why they felt they knew what the best land use policy is for the area. While some Haldi neighbors also had concerns to the lands beside the Old Haldi School, by someone?? who made innertangled persuasive $ efforts of tirelessly trying to purchase this property from an “ol fella”, (who only really wants a friendly neighbor to this now vacant property) in the hopes to expand the operations of a Thereaputic Community. After 37 years following almalgamation and promises made for city services, the Haldi area have clearly voiced their wishes for infrastucture and desires to continue to keep a lifestyle that doesnt involve high density to this apparently transitional area and to conclude without any consultation to the area residents as to its progresson. Through the current dealings and shuffling of City administration and planning departments who feel they know best to this area of Prince George, and after being completely ignored, some Haldi area residents will again challenge the City of Prince George in Court in regards to the amendments to the OCP on behalf of all citizens living in all rural and residential areas. Currently, some Haldi residents are making preparations to begin the process (60% of the votes) to leave the city and join the Regional District. With this challenge upon the neighborhood, Haldi residents continue through to be a wonderfully established strong neighborhood !!

HappyInMyWorld…… the Return key on your keyboard is your friend. Makes for happy paragraphs.

We bought our first house and sold it under the NDP government for less than we had bought it for. We had chronic unemployment in PG no matter what wiki says, people left BC in droves at the end of their term – a lot have never returned including 3 complete families I personally know of that pulled up long time roots to feed their families.

Since the NDP were defeated in the ballot box our ‘new’ house has more than doubled in its value and haven’t heard of anyone leaving town to get a job so they can feed their family (in my circle anyways).

Wasn’t Dix the guy that forged documents or something like that when they were defeated and lost their grip in Victoria? Just the kind of people we need to lead BC!

“He (Dix) could not even remember if he paid his Translink fare when caught. Now he wants to be a leader. Give me a break.”

Precisely. It has nothing to do with memory. You just reach into your pocket and pull out the ticket that you purchased as a law abiding citizen!

I don`t trust him. Next!

You also mention that we have the Sea to Sky Highway, but you fail to mention the Island Highway that the NDP built. Remember that one? It was built at a far greater cost due to the NDP’s policy of only allowing unionized labour to bid on the work.

Can you back up the cost? Seems to be the best built highway in the Province, its awesome.

“How many of you think that North Korea will maybe carry out it’s threat to send a nuclear bomb into the U.S.?”

I do not. However, they are likely to do something just as stupid. I am glad I do not live in that part of the world, especially South Korea.

Just think, the USA could have ended up with North and South Disunited States with a 150 year old cease fire agreement …. ;-)

I love their parades, though. Looks to me like our City Councillors would fit right in. All are team players marching in step … well, except one …. ;-)

http://politics.lilithezine.com/images/North-Korea-02.jpg

Ferry system used to be private and was a mess then also.

Photo vans had to be parked in the same spots. The one on 97 in the BCR area showed what a joke they were. Parked on the side of the road, slow down speed up.

Baby boomers taxing health system, well that was a surprise no one saw coming.

Yup I was a union career man, great pension and benefits, suck it up.

We could invite them to our Canadian National Winterr Games ……

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK4frT0-UNM

The Island Highway is for the average working BC Resident….the Sea to Sky is for the upper deck BCrs and tourists using the Whistler/Blackcomb complex…

They put a toll of the Coqahalla but they refuse to toll the Sea to Sky….guess who is reaping the benefits of this highway on the backs of northern taxpayers? If there are perks for interior residents we have to pay up…but not in lotus land?
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University Hospital of the North??…thousands of northern people requiring the services of a few specialists…and if you need them the BC Liberals will put the ill and suffering on a bus instead of flying the specialist to PG. Amazing logic.
It’s right up there with telling me that I had to drive to Quesnel in February for a ultra sound procedure…yes sir, sounds nice University Hospital of the North…maybe they should call it what it is a Referral Center?

I wonder if the largest air pollution contributor in Prince George… Home Depot… will sweep and clean there parking lot before the end of June this year…….

The BC Liberals have money for TV ads…and Bollywood parties…and the BC Childrens’ Hospital has to fund raise so they can heal our sick children…what is wrong with this picture? A man having a heart attack is taken to the Princeton Hospital and is turned away…pregnant women in Ft. Nelson have to drive to Ft. St. John to deliver…risking road side deliveries…

Apparently spending more to pay higher salaries to attract doctors to northern and small communities is so repugnant to BC Liberals that they think we are better off doing without?
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Children in care…how many times do they have to be told that they are failing miserably?? How many more innocent children are going to suffer under government care before they do more than make empty promises to change the system? This is shades of the residential school system, or the days when mentally handicapped people were sterilized…it’s sickening…lower income taxes and cut the budgets of those that are supposed to be looking after these vulnerable children..

seamutt

I don’t begrudge your union career and great pension at all. Good on you.

I have been on both sides of this fence and while on the union based career side of things (as well as advanding myself through union officer positions)I took full advantage of the security and benefits of the job. If I had stayed I would be in early retirement and laughing all the way.

But I didn’t stay and have enjoyed an incredibly diverse career in so many other fields.

I just can’t bear the thought of seeing this province go down the tubes again with an NDP government that can’t understand that money comes from business. Give away all the money you want – if you have the money to give. Dubai isn’t hurting is it?…if you follow the logic of this statement.

JIM13135

And you believe that the NDP are going fix all these issues?

Here’s is your chance Jim. Tell us all what great things happened under the last NDP tours of duty.

opine….are you trying to put words in my mouth? [or at least on my key board]

I am extremely critical of the current BC Liberal Party….I must have missed where I said the NDP would fix all these issues?

Clearly I am saying we need a government that is more inclined to address these extremely important issues. Would that be the NDP? Perhaps. Would it be the BC Liberals? NO, they do the talk but not the walk. And you should remember that on voting day…unless you live in the LML they couldn’t give a rats’ patooey about you or your family.

The problem with the NDP, Jim, is that after they pander themselves to every whining labor union in the province and give them 10% wage increase and increased benefits (to groups of people that are already in higher paid tax brackets than the average working stiff) – and after they donate 100’s of millions of dollars to social welfare issues and arts fartsy issues that have no ability to be self sustaining or to put money back into our society – and after they chase away and penalize smart business enterprises that are the very enterprises that create the tax dollars that support the NDP social give aways – we are left with a province that is in dire need of a government that knows a run a business. Like it or not – that’s what a government is – a business.

The liberals admittingly have made many stupid and costly mistakes but at the end of the day we have a province that is attracting new business, growth and opportunity and these opportunities are paying taxes that are allowing this government to build roads and hospitals and cancer clinics in the north.

I will ask it again – tell me what the NDP accomplished while governing our province other than driving our economy into the ground.

http://consciouslifenews.com/paid-internet-shill-shadowy-groups-manipulate-internet-opinion-debate/1147073/

“Dubai isn’t hurting is it?…”

LOL .. actually I understand it is, but optimists feel it is on the way to recovery. They have to say that since their investments may never come back up again.

Kinda like Alberta and its ups and downs.

http://www.gfmag.com/archives/152-april-2012/11700-middle-east-2012-dubais-debt-dependency.html#axzz2N0BNqy9v

Actually we might be closer to the truth when we use Vancouver instead of Dubai …. “the GVRD isn’t hurting, is it?”

Wow jet stream you just screwed yourself you just spelled school, shcool, so what is your excuse business man.

buzz: “Wow jet stream you just screwed yourself you just spelled school, shcool, so what is your excuse business man.”

Do you guys really not know the difference between a typo and general poor spelling and grammar?

Who really cares people.

Both my poor Grammars have passed away, they can’t be held responsible for my spelling.

Do you remember when Glen Clarke in 1994 was given Alberta businessman of the year award. It was given to him as he single handedly did more to create and build business in Alberta than any one else as premier.

And don’t anyone forget, it was Gordon Campbell’s policies that tripled and quadripled the price of resources during the past decade.

When the NDP was in power last, was there more than ONE mine operating in this province?

How to start an argument on the internet:

1. State your opinion

2. Wait

“When the NDP was in power last, was there more than ONE mine operating in this province?”

I believe so. Here are some: Endako (molybdenum), Craigmont (magnetite), Kemess (gold and copper), Highland Valley (copper). Quintette (coal).

nononsense, North Korea on my mind this week as well. I thought the cold war was over. Yes it is very scary.

Just a few facts.
Employment in B.C. increased 22 per cent during the 1990s — much faster than the 16 per cent growth for Canada as a whole. Housing starts in B.C. averaged 29,000 per year between 1991 and 2000, a higher rate per capita than the 29,800 annual average during the “boom” period of 2001 to 2007.
What about all those 1990s economic refugees fleeing B.C.?
B.C. gained an average of 14,000 people annually from net interprovincial migration from 1991 to 2000 compared with just 4,300 annually for 2001 to 2007. The BC Liberals inherited a record surplus then ran record deficits.
The 1990s weren’t as bad as that the BC Liberals would have us believe.

And

“In the early 1990s, Japan’s property and stock market bubbles burst. That implosion was worsened by a banking crisis and excess corporate debt. Nearly 20 years later, Japan is still struggling.

There are eerie similarities between the United States now and Japan then. The Bank of Japan ran an excessively accommodative monetary policy for most of the 1980s. In the United States, the Federal Reserve did the same thing beginning in the late 1990s. In both cases, loose money fueled liquidity booms that led to major bubbles.”

This and the federal gov’t’s removal of transfer payments caused so much turmoil in BC in the 1990’s.

And

Bush blamed the poor economy in 2001 on Clinton

The Liberals are a spent force in BC.

They will lose the election and then disappear from the political scene. The NDP will form the Government for a minimum of four years maybe longer.

There will be a few independents, conservatives, and maybe even a green elected in the next election,. With any luck we might get a coalition Government.

Those people who are still supporting the Liberals are the same one’s that supported the HST. They didn’t get it then, and they don’t get it now,.

If the Liberals are so great, maybe they can bring back Campbell and have him run in the next election.

I predict Dick’s will get a ticket for no skytrain pass for which he will plead diplomatic immunity …..

but will learn to use the delete trash option in his inbox religiously ….

Moe Sihota will jump out dressed like Jim Carey yelling “I’m back” ……

We’ll all go crazy from listening to 4 years of Carol James’s whiny voice …….

the NDP will realize the Liberals were their platform and now what ……

and 4 years from now we’ll all be wondering what the frick we did ……

BC Liberals have done nothing for the low income and persons on disability for twelve years. The BC Liberals have lined their pockets with millions of dollars and have allowed many in this province suffer because of their greed. The BC Liberals have and will allow dangerous projects like the Northern Gateway Pipeline to be built and take the chance of leaks and spills on our coast line. They will not lobby the Federal Government to decriminalize Cannabis for the public purse. It is a shame and shame on the ones that have supported the BC Liberals all these years. The BC Liberals have allowed a talk show host/sorry poor excuse for a politician to become Premier of our Province. The BC Liberals have lied to the people of British Columbia over the HST and the sale of BC rail which the tax payers had to pay the lawyers of these criminals. The BC Liberals have made a farce out of our democracy. The list can go on and on.

I predict Dick’s will get a ticket for no skytrain pass for which he will plead diplomatic immunity …..

but will learn to use the delete trash option in his inbox religiously ….

Moe Sihota will jump out dressed like Jim Carey yelling “I’m back” ……

We’ll all go crazy from listening to 4 years of Carol James’s whiny voice …….

the NDP will realize the Liberals were their platform and now what ……

and 4 years from now we’ll all be wondering what the frick we did ……

This is so entertaining!

No kidding. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Palopu get a prediction right.

I just read a story in today’s Free Press about a group of local Post-Secondary students who are participating in 5 Days for the Homeless, a nation-wide campaign to raise awareness and money for the homeless. They will be eating donated food and accepting donations to be used for local homeless assistance.

I can’t help but wonder how much money they would be able to donate if instead of sitting around for the next 5 days asking for donations, they went to work and donated the income that they earned.

I’m all for helping the homeless. I go to work. I earn an income. I pay a lot of taxes, some of which are used to help the homeless. Sadly, some of the homeless are just too lazy to get a job and pay their fare share. Instead they use public resources that should be going to people who are truly in need.

Maybe these students would like to bring this issue to light. Hmmm, probably not as it’s way too politically incorrect to expect those that are able to work, to get a job and work!!

Mismanagement of money by government which bothers me. It’s hard to swallow.

The Chinese have 89 billionaires in their parliament. The fiberals tried to match and failed drastically.