Any one know what’s going on in the old Wholesale Sports site on O’Grady? Lots of machines working the site all week. Just looking at it it looks like they might be punching out a road to Albert Pl.

Good morning Prince George, miss you folks! Have a great weekend.

19 degrees at 2am this morning.

I see Trudeau has come out in support of marijuana legalization. Legalize it, regulate it and tax it was essentially his position.

It would appear as though the “too inexperienced to be PM” leader has outflanked the ruling party yet again when it comes to aligning himself with public opinion and separating himself from the alternatives.

The “closer” in policy he is to the Cons and NDP, the less of a chance he has in the election. By doing this, not only does he present a rather distinct alternative come election time, but I think he also goats the Cons into more attack ads. Truth be told, I think he actually WANTS them to undertake more attack ads. They look idiotic every single time they’ve attempted it and I also just have this strange gut feeling that he’s goading them into it so that he can respond with something rather large when the time is right . . .

I think it was James Moore who said that people SHOULD NOT underestimate him and I think he’s right. The dude has some political savvy that the Cons should be very concerned about. All IMHO of course.

Have a great weekend folks, I’m going fishing.

The level and the way people are taking this ” royal baby ” name is embarrassing. Is this really what our mayor is spending her time doing? Good use of our tax dollars. It’s a neat coincidence. That’s it. There are more important things we need to be dealing with.

In Canada, the securitization of government-backed mortgages (mortgages that have been insured by the CMHC, or other insurers such as Genworth) has exploded since the early 2000s, when the Canadian Mortgage Bond program was created and the CMHC lifted its $250,000 ceiling on insured mortgages, allowing banks to securitize most of their mortgages, the report said.

It boomed again in 2009, when the Insured Mortgage Purchase Program (IMPP) came into effect in the midst of the recession. That program saw the CMHC, the government-run mortgage insurer, start buying securitized mortgages from banks — the same mortgages it insured.

“Why the federal government would assume all the credit risk of a mortgage and then buy it at a healthy premium as a ‘riskless’ asset is an interesting question,” the report states, hinting that the whole process may just be a scam designed to hold up the housing market artificially.

The result, the report said, is that the proportion of government-insured mortgages in Canada went from 30 per cent in 1988 to 75 per cent in 2013. In other words, taxpayers are on the hook for three-quarters of Canadian mortgages, should something go wrong in the market.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/23/canada-house-prices-gamed_n_3636259.html

And in other news, thousands of Canadians whose homes are worth less than what they paid for them at the top of the boom in 2007, are still working and continuing to make their mortgage payments. Living comfortably in those homes while they wait for the value to eventually rise back to their purchase price and beyond.

I honestly have never seen anybody try to disguise their secret fervent desire to witness an apocalyptic collapse as “weekly sage warnings” as much as you Chuck. Keep spreading your ridiculous gospel and paying rent…hoping to buy that 3BR, triple garage walkout for $150K one day. The rest of us will build equity and enjoy life while the market fluctuates as it has since the dawn of capitalism.

Another earthquake in southern B.C. this morning!

The baby name isn’t just a coincidence. It’s more like a repeat of early history. What it really does is move us down the search engine page in the Google universe to about page 17.

God help us all if the good people of Canada are ever stupid enough to elect a Liberal government with Justin Trudeau at its head.

Are people not already, on average, indebted up to their eyeballs ‘just to live’? Or are the figures given by the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, (over a year ago now ~ today it’s even higher, and still increasing) showing that for every $1.00 of disposable income paid us we’re $ 1.66 in debt personally, on average), meaningless to him?

Instead of proposing anything to address this problem, he wants to make it worse.

By ‘legalising’ pot, and ‘taxing’ it.

The cost of which, and, of course, ‘regulating’ it, will likely exceed any net revenues generated for the government, while the further social problems engendered by having an expanded nation of pot-heads will certainly absorb all the rest, and then some. Leaving the average Canadian even financially poorer in terms of the ratio between overall indebtedness and disposable incomes than we already are.

One would have to wonder whether young Mr. Trudeau is already experimenting regularly with the substance he hopes to ‘legalise’.

Right on the mark Chuck….just wait until the Boomers start retiring in droves [or interest rates jump up] and then we will see how fast those over priced homes regain value. ;-) Values are just as likely to plummet even further as has been demonstrated in the US…. that 3BR, triple garage walkout …is probably under 100K in many US states.

God help us all if the good people of Canada are ever stupid enough to elect a Liberal government with Justin Trudeau at its head.

Are people not already, on average, indebted up to their eyeballs ‘just to live’? Or are the figures given by the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, (over a year ago now ~ today it’s even higher, and still increasing) showing that for every $1.00 of disposable income paid us we’re $ 1.66 in debt personally, on average), meaningless to him?
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It’s a good thing we don’t have a Liberal government or things would be even worse….OR it’s a good thing Harper the economist is making things so much better for us?? Hmmmmmmm….thinking…..

Why not a nation of potheads we already have a nation of obese children to look after when we work long after we should of retired because they can’t. At least if they’re stoned they’ll be easy to manage. The only arguement I have against pot is once its legal people will smoke it in public and compel me to join in as they do now with tobacco. Otherwise I’m with Justin on this one

Is Harper really an economist? That would explain a lot!!!

“that 3BR, triple garage walkout …is probably under 100K in many US states.”

When the boomers start retiring in droves, where do you think they will retire to?

Those who have been lucky enough to live in one of the few Canadian cities where house prices have skyrocketed over the past 30 years or so, may continue to have that luck when they can buy into those underpriced houses and see them rise back up to the $300 to $500 thousand price range during their retirement years.

Enjoy the money!!!

t truly is an amazing and uplifting experience to witness the ways in which people respond to trying times. For instance, the thousands of volunteers who came together to help those ravaged by the floods in Alberta and the train explosion in Quebec. Maybe it’s a Canadian thing or perhaps it’s part of the human condition to drop what you’re doing and go to the aid of those who have been kicked hard and could use a helping hand.
We recently had a similar catastrophe closer to home. Not on the scale of the two examples cited above, but no less serious, no less traumatizing to those at the centre of the storm. And what happened? Those aware of the terrible situation at hand dropped their personal priorities down a notch and placed their total focus on what needed to be done. No hesitation, no question, we need to do something right now, so let’s get it done.
That grit and determination smashed through a roadblock that, even though not a drop of sweat or a penny of currency was sought, to assist in dealing with this heartbreaking, life-changing situation, presented itself. In fact, what the negativity did do was strengthen the resolve of those who stepped up to help. Your hard work, selflessness, caring and support truly was an amazing display of how people will come together when things look bleak. Thank you to all of you who contributed. You all know who you are. Give yourselves a smile and a pat on the back for a job exceptionally well done.

Just because it may become legal to possess and consume does not imply that there will be an increase in users.

Among Canadians 15 years and older, the prevalence of past-year cannabis use decreased from 10.7% in 2010 to 9.1%.
The prevalence of past-year cannabis use decreased since 2004 for males (18.2% vs. 12.2%), females (10.2% vs. 6.2%) and youth aged 15-24 years (37.0% vs. 21.6%).
Among youth, aged 15-24 years, past-year use of at least one of 5 illicit drugs (cocaine or crack, speed, hallucinogens (excluding salvia), ecstasy, and heroin) decreased from 11.3% in 2004 to 4.8%.
The rate of drug use by youth 15-24 years of age remains much higher than that reported by adults 25 years and older: three times higher for cannabis use (21.6% versus 6.7%), and five times higher for past-year use of any one of five drugs excluding cannabis (4.8% versus 1.1%).
The rate of past-year psychoactive pharmaceutical use decreased among Canadians aged 15 years and older from 26.0% in 2010 to 22.9%. Of those who indicated they had used an opioid pain reliever, a stimulant or a sedative or tranquilizer in the past year, 3.2% reported they abused such a drug. Abuse is use for the experience, the feeling caused, to get high or for other non-prescribed reasons.
Among Canadians 15 years and older, the prevalence of past-year alcohol use was 78.0%, not statistically different from previous years.
Less than three quarters of youth (70.8%) reported consuming alcohol in the past year. This is a decrease from 2004 when 82.9% of youth reported past-year use of alcohol.
Canada’s Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines were received in November 2011 by the Canadian federal, provincial and territorial health ministers. Of the five guidelines, the first two apply to all Canadians and address long-term (chronic) effects like liver disease and certain cancers, and short-term (acute) effects such as injuries and overdoses, respectively. In 2011, 14.4% of Canadians aged 15 years and older exceeded the recommended quantity of alcohol outlined in guideline 1 for chronic risk and 10.1% exceeded the recommended quantity of alcohol outlined in guideline 2 for acute risk.
from
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/drugs-drogues/stat/index-eng.php

Tobacco use is decreasing.

So, less than 25% of adult Canadians use cannabis, and you are concerned with pot?

Did you notice the 78% figure for alcohol?
That might explain why there are so many impaired driving charges.

Yet, at that consumption rate, I am rarely induced to consume that product.

Here is what Trudeau said
“”If we control and regulate it, then we have a better way to make sure anyone who buys it in a regulated environment is of age to make that decision, similar to alcohol or cigarettes. It’s an easier way to keep it out of the hands of our kids where it does the most harm,”

I always new he was an airhead this just proves it, I guess he believes kids don’t drink or smoke because its regulated. All he is looking at is the taxes.

Loki are you infering pot is healthy?

Lets quit the BS on legalizing pot.

If we had a referendum and those in favour of smoking pot won, they would dance in the street. If those opposed to pot won, the pot smokers would continue to break the law and smoke.

Potheads have no intention of not smoking. Nor do they have any intention of obeying any law that would stop them.

So what we have here is a sham. If we win, everything is great. If we lose, then we will continue with our bad behavior.

Absolutely no concerns here about the overall good of the Country or its communities. Total lack of responsibility by a number of so called **citizens**

If BC wants to make it big in LNG exports Christy better get moving before regime change in the US. They have huge reserves of natural gas and their biggest stumbling block to exporting it is Obama. If we get our eports up and running first it will be harder for them to cut in.

Had a good laugh at the liberals touting the success of the carbon tax while exporting C02 producing coal, natural gas and oil and those exports have no carbon tax. Oh for those that believe in the C02 AGW thing if true BC’s contribution would be 1/3000 of a degree, wow. Thanks goes out to Andrew Weaver for this BS.

Maybe I missed it, but I still haven’t seen or heard any updates from the Hotel/Condo development that was supposed to happen downtown this year.

Palopu, you’ve completely missed the point on pot. It’s not whether people will keep smoking it regradless of the law, I think it’s more about the immense cost to the justice system for processing small time pot users and growers.

I don’t smoke it, but I tend to think it should be legal so that the police and courts can focus on more serious stuff.

seamut:
No where in today’s post did I imply, infer or allude to the health effect of pot.
What I did was paste data from the Government of Canada Health Care study on the consumption of cannabis.

My question to those that are opposed to the availability of pot: What is it to you? Why should you decide what I consume?

How about prohibiting alcohol? It is known scientifically and anecdotally to cause direct harm to the body and mind, it is the leading cause accidents on our roads, in industry, and in our personal lives.
I seem to recall some such event way back before most of us were born. What happened there?
Oh yeah, so many “regular” citizens consumed, went to illegal gatherings called speak-easy, and ended up with a permanent record for possession of a prohibited substance, that there was a hue and cry for the repeal of alcohol prohibition. The reasoning was that the prohibition model was not working for anyone but the underground economy. It made criminals very wealthy, and cost taxpayers a lot of money for detection and enforcement.
Sound familiar?

I am not asking you or anyone else to consume. That is your decision. By the same token, it is my decision whether or not to consume that substance. That is called freewill of a citizen on a free society.

“If those opposed to pot won, the pot smokers would continue to break the law and smoke”

It isn’t illegal to smoke pot.

I drove into downtown the other day via the Gateway route (Hwy 16, past Northland Dodge towards Victoria St) and was pleasantly surprised to see how beautiful this area looks with all the improvements and flowers in full bloom. Kudos to the merchants in that area that support the ongoing improvements in the Gateway area. Thank you!

1st thing ,TY Loki…as for the nay sayers..go get yer PROZAC!
Who is the BIGGEST drug dealer??why our GOV.
Alcohol and Tobacco,the most costly drugs out there,on our health system.
Funeral parlors are happy!
Still to this NOT a single person has DIED from smoking or injesting Cannabis..that is a fact!!
I for one would rather be in a room full of Pot smokers then DRUNKS!!
See I got these anti CANNABIS douchbags next door to me and you would not believe just what they have done to me !!
Everything under the sun to get me RIPPED off,hehehe!
Opps my Bad..I grow my own MEDS..
Anyone else out there got cameras point at there property?? i have 4 and they are not mine ..it is these paranoid Phuckers next door,
Put a sign on his house he did!!
it said and this is verbatim.
THIS PROPERTY IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE MARIHUANA GROW OP ! jERKOFFS…
Peppered my hood with flyers too,even put my ADDY on it!! cool EH!
Petitioned the hood too,hehehe!
Most of the ppl I have talked with say wots with THOSE ppl.
As for all you Harpertoids out there,ya get wot ya deserve..look at what he has done to this great country!
My spew fo friday…..TY!

Anybody know what they are clearing for in front of the McD’s on the Hart?

Happy Friday all

Well, I WAS pro-legalization but apparently it DOES cause brain damage.

LMAO weaksauce – I have two family members that have smoked for 25 plus years and I agree, its tough to have a conversation with them. But they will never admit it, no more than a guy who has drank heavily for his life will admit that he is “not as bright as he once was”
;)

LOL weaksauce. I’ll have to change my stance too.

The double lane is completed on Hwy 16 on the upper Fraser road. That was very fast and they did a fantastic job. Will be seeing some Greymont and logging trucks making use of this. Now to double lane the Willow hill one day :-)

interceptor, I heard it was going to be a Shopper’s Drug Mart. That from an unreliable source.

I would like to complain about the recyling in PG. It is ludicrous. No such thing as the KiSS principle. It is easy to have to go to 4 to 5 locations to recyle. Today, for the third time in 4 months, I tried to recycle glass container at the depot on first and they were too busy. I am not waiting 30 min to put a few glass containers in a bin. They are now going in the garbage.

I support the legalization of marijuana for 2 reasons. One is that I believe it is less dangerous (on the roads) for people to be impaired by marijuana than it is to be impaired by alcohol. Have you ever tried to drive fast while stoned? Not going to happen; too much of the “whoa, I’m going fast” factor at 30 kmph.

The second reason I support it is because I have an insider’s knowledge of the costs that are incurred policing this drug. A ridiculous amount of money is spent every year prosecuting people for possession of small amounts.

Think of the money that could be raised specifically for health care through taxation of marijuana :)

Pot is practially legal, so legalize, regulate and tax it.

First off. Pot is a drug, alcohol is a drug, Prozac is a drug..

Drugs are fine in moderation.. One main difference between pot and alcohol is violence. People do not get violent on pot. On alcohol people fight, abuse their spouses , children etc. hmmm. Sure glad alcohol is legal….

But today my real pet peeve is people driving on Winnipeg street north crossing carney. The road lines are well marked but on a daily basis I see drivers cut people off to get into the left lane to carry on Winnipeg. The right lane heads to connect to 15th and people still don’t know this??? I am not a fan of the police..but do wish they would spend a few hrs there everyday ticketing people till they figure out how to drive…

They completely screwed up Winnipeg St. to add a couple of unused bike lanes.

Pot, like alcohol is a mind altering drug pure and simple.

The more pure the product you consume, the simpler you get.

We can rationalize the situation all we want, but at the end of the day, if you smoke or drink to any extent you are going to feel the effects and act accordingly.

Personally I don’t give a fiddlers one way or the other, however I suspect that those who use the **tax benefits of pot** are using this as a red herring. If in fact they do legalize it, then why tax it??? Does the Government need more money to waste??

Speaking of **red herrings** seems to be an abundance of them at City Hall, especially when it comes to Downtown Parking.

Speaking of smoke, what’s with these d-bags that tweak their moronic diesel pickups to puke out massive clouds of black smoke every time they stomp on the gas (ie: EVERY intersection)?

Hey weaksauce,,,are those d-bags from Alberta?,,There are a group of them here working in construction in CH and they are horrible. They smoke ppl out at the bloody drive-thrus throughout the city as well.

Palopu has made a very good point about moderation of use.

Having 1 to 3 drinks once a week or less is more beneficial than not. Having more than 3 drinks everyday will result in a drool fool.

I appreciate the support zyblxteu, but I think you are helping proof the point of excess consumption.

Daily wake and bake is not good for ones brain or body. Having an apéritif some evenings after work is not so much a problem.

The problem is that supporters and anti supporters have been arguing this since the beginning, and that is making folks militant in their views.

Hopefully, we can get to a more moderate view of controlling what others do.

I don’t really have any issues with pot-heads except one. The odour from that stuff is less than pleasant. Legalisation will only make that worse as people will be able to smoke up whenever they like. Get rid of the odour and life is grand….

On those smokey diesels, check out Youtube and see what those that do that sort of thing to people think about it. There is one video there showing a neanderthal and his passengers driving along a hwy in the mountains during a bicycle race. Everytime thay catch up to any cyclists they slow down, turn on the smoke and laugh their butts off.
Read the comments from viewers.

Had a DB do the same thing to a long line of traffic stopped in the Pine Pass during all the flood repairs. He was the last one in the line up as they went by us. When he passed the flagperson that had us stopped he turned on the smoke and creeped along at a snails pace choking everyone out.

We actually allow these type of people to walk the same streets we do because?

“Legalization will only make that worse as people will be able to smoke up whenever they like.”

Just like being able to consume alcohol whenever or wherever one likes? Or the other legal intoxicant tobacco that can be consumed anywhere like in stores or other public places?

I say make every drug legal…but there will be no medical assistance offered for overdoses.. In 2 years all the abusers will be dead and we can move on.

I find it interesting that one can get fined for driving with the doors off a jeep but a motorcycle has neither doors or seat belts. I wonder what would happen if someone where to challenge the door/seatbelt fine in court using motorcycles as an example. Most likely the government has their collective butts covered most likely.

Spain is going to tax sunlight

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/26/climate-craziness-of-the-week-taxing-sunlight/

Motorcycles don’t come with doors. Jeeps come with doors and they are considered to be a part of the structural integrity of the body as a hole.
Having the doors on during an impact might determine the severity of injuries or possible death of an occupant.

It is my meds and with out it I am in pain…only one way to stop it Puff,puff..no pass!
Some real braindead arses here EH!!
Just like the GOOHEADS….

Dragonmaster,
I beg to differ, I had a Jeep CJ 5 and the doors were nothing more than a few steel rods covered in plastic.

I believe that the law is written as a blanket for all automobiles and that is basically “if it came with doors it needs to have doors”. The CJ’s get exempted because doors were an option back then (Ive heard). Like most laws it probably has next to nothing to do with safety and more to do with a broad brush to cover all. Heres from the motor vehicle act:

Standards of safety and repair
7.09

Door, body, hood

11 The vehicle shall comply with section 19.02 of the regulations with regard to size and dimension.

Doors—Doors shall be installed in a vehicle where the vehicle was manufactured with doors.

The doors with which a vehicle is equipped shall be in good working order, and any hinge, latch or handle must not be broken, missing or inoperable.

The doors shall not be warped, twisted or weakened to the extent that a slight jar will open them.

A door shall be capable of being opened or closed with normal effort.

What if you have a rollbar, And im pretty sure jeep doors are manufactured to be easily removed arent they?

Best sales ploy of the century!!!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/07/26/tim-hortons-coffee-giving-trend.html?cmp=rss

Shut your barking dogs up they and you are pissing off your neighbors!

You forgot….and keep the kids off the lawn and logging trucks off the street:P

You got that right Dragonmaster. Prince George has to have more bloody barking dogs than any City in BC. Yap, Yap, Yap, from Dawn to Dusk.

I seriously wonder who is dummer, the dog, or the owner.

As we know from past experience the City rarely looks at the results of its decisions over time, to determine whether it was a good or bad decision. I suspect that they operate on the assumption that all decisions they make are good decisions.

So, keeping that in mind we can probably say with some certainty that they will not look at the ramifications of closing the Quinn St., transfer station.

This closure was based on information from the Finance Committee that closing the transfer to solid waste, and having the recycle products, etc; run by the Regional District would save the City $260,000.00 per year.

We know that the Regional District will now charge $6.00 for a small load of garbage at the Foothills Landfill. This load used to be free. However the Regional District states that they need to charge for dumping to offset the cost of running the Quinn St. recycle program, and handling the increase in traffic at foothills.

Sooo. The City supposedly saves $260,000.00 and the Regional District picks up costs of $260,000.00. Those people who used to dump for free, are now charged, and those people who paid $6.00 to dump at 18th and Quinn, continue to pay, however they now have to drive some 20 Kilometres and have the expense of the extra gas.

In the meantime the solid waste facility that was built because the City said it was needed, and probably cost us in excess of a million dollars will now sit idle until they decide to spend thousands of dollars to tear it out.

We now have a situation where people who go to the Foothills Landfill have to deal with huge line ups, and serious waiting time to dump their garbage.

Somehow or other those on the Finance Committee see this situation as a positive, while the rest of the People who have to pay the extra charge, plus fuel, see it as an increase in their costs, and therefore a negative.

Perhaps these savings are in fact phantom savings, derived by the **creative accounting** section of the City.

If it costs taxpayers more money then it is not a savings. You can rest assured that when the great financiers at City Hall did the study on the savings for this program, they did NOT look at the extra costs that the taxpayers would have to pay.

Once you factor in the extra costs, ie; $6.00 for those who used to dump for free, and extra gas for those who have to drive to Foothills, plus the non use of a million dollar asset, and there will be no savings.

What do we say YES to…. legalizing Pot or Passing Embridge pipeline project.
We are going to need tax $$$ from something to keep everything rosey when the boomers retire!!

The Vanway transfer station is fairly close to town and in addition to the $6 garbage drop off has all the recycling services, compost, tires batteries and used oil and metal which can all be accessed for free.

I think the Quinn Street station should have never been built when the old one by the pool was closed. Every household in the city has weekly garbage pickup and so this is a duplication of services. The $20k+ a month it cost could be better spent elsewhere.

If a person is doing a renovation project they can rent a bin for their waste or hall it to the remaining transfer station or to Foothills. The city also has the free spring clean up bins all around town.

I’m looking to Opinion 250 for a second “opinion”. It’s great that news machines, like this one, allow the public to comment, but I’m struggling to understand how they filter what gets carried and what gets blacked out. My example today relates to the CBC coverage of the Russian anti-gay laws and the upcoming Olympics. Here was my comment, tell me if I offends . . .
.Whelen

“This poster provides a perfect echo to the poem “they came for the Jews and I was not a Jew so I did not protest”. “Anti gay stuff” may be immaterial to you and, from a purely selfish perspective, I have no one close to me who happens to be gay. However, I to care about my fellow man and will stand up against systematic hatred whether racial, sexual, gender or class. I do not want my Canadian tax dollar spent sending our best athletes to a country that condones discrimination against any person who is simply living their life. Similarly, I don’t holiday in Cuba because there are people in prison for anti-government rhetoric. I’d love to travel to St. Petersburg but can’t do that just now.”

Referencing a post by . . .

Taxman90210

I don’t see what someone’s sexual preference has anything to do with sports. You either like and watch a sport or you don’t. It ‘s that simple. I watch some sports and I never ask myself what sexual preference that athlete is. I just don’t care.

I simply watch a sport because I like that sport. So all this anti gay stuff is immaterial to me

I’m looking to Opinion 250 for a second “opinion”. It’s great that news machines, like this one, allow the public to comment, but I’m struggling to understand how they filter what gets carried and what gets blacked out. My example today relates to the CBC coverage of the Russian anti-gay laws and the upcoming Olympics. Here was my comment, tell me if I offends . . .
.Whelen

“This poster provides a perfect echo to the poem “they came for the Jews and I was not a Jew so I did not protest”. “Anti gay stuff” may be immaterial to you and, from a purely selfish perspective, I have no one close to me who happens to be gay. However, I to care about my fellow man and will stand up against systematic hatred whether racial, sexual, gender or class. I do not want my Canadian tax dollar spent sending our best athletes to a country that condones discrimination against any person who is simply living their life. Similarly, I don’t holiday in Cuba because there are people in prison for anti-government rhetoric. I’d love to travel to St. Petersburg but can’t do that just now.”

Referencing a post by . . .

Taxman90210

I don’t see what someone’s sexual preference has anything to do with sports. You either like and watch a sport or you don’t. It ‘s that simple. I watch some sports and I never ask myself what sexual preference that athlete is. I just don’t care.

I simply watch a sport because I like that sport. So all this anti gay stuff is immaterial to me

People like PVal who say noone gets violent on pot don’t listen to the news very often. The last one I heard of was the stabbing where they shared a joint and one party got enraged and stabbed the other. They didn’t share a tin of muffins or a bag of chips like PVal thinks, just sent one to the hospital

Pot affects different people different ways, some people go schizophrenic after a few puffs, some people mellow down, some people get paranoid, etc

Zum14—I wish they had an agree button here. I’d hit it MANY times.

Lonesome Sparrow. As far as I know there will be no dropping off of solid waste at the Vanway Transfer Station. Recycables only. So if you have solid waste you will have to go to Foothills, and continue to pay the $6.00 plus the extra fuel.

Lonesome Sparrow. You are right. The Vanway Transfer Station does take solid waste, according the Citys web site.

I stand corrected.

In any event the drive to Vanway, or to Foothills still entails additional fuel, plus those who were dumping at Foothills for free now pay $6.00.

Personally I think they should have left well enough alone.

I just caught the tail end of a news story on CTV Vancouver’s evening news. It made reference to the cost of utilities going up in Vancouver. It suggested that the average house worth $480,000.00 payed slightly over $400.00 per year for water, sewer and garbage. Wow, that’s cheap compared to what we pay here in good ol’ PG!!

I’d be interested to see a comparison of what Prince George residents pay for property taxes and utility charges as compared to other BC cities!

Palopu

You hold the city’s feet to the fire on a regular basis on how they borrow and spend but based on the number of posts on this subject it must be a service that you use so all of a sudden it is a sacred cow.

The transfer station is subsidized by over 2/3s of a core review EVERY YEAR. Would you still use it if the rates reflected the full cost, for the sake of argument say $10 a load. Maybe a ten bucks the usage would go down so the charge would have to be raised to $12…still interested?

A quarter million would have meant a 10% bump to the paving budget a year ago or 5% more than current spending. 5 or 10% extra paving every year would do a lot to get our roads in better shape.

There are plenty of other unfunded projects on the city books that could use this money- the shear strengthening of Foothills Bridge that has been delayed for years always sticks in my craw.

I would bet majority of residents do not use the transfer station, some once or twice a year and some on a weekly basis or more and are dumping commercial waste and are concerned with the scale at the Hart where in addition to the $6 there would be additional tipping fees over 100kg.

The city should not be helping you avoid the gas pump to dump your excess waste, Quinn street should be self supporting or eliminated and the city chose the latter.