Wow Frost on the ground and on my windshield this morning. This is crazy!

Yes, its a tough morning for the plants.

Good weekend to ride the various trails around the city. I’m sure the vast majority of people aren’t even aware how many great trails we have in and around PG. Enjoy… :)

There is a lot of frost yes, Im sure my garden is toast. I don’t want to constantly see the trial headlines either . I only want to read the right outcome when its done.

On a brighter note, maybe this frost will kill caterpillars.

I cannot believe that Eagleone thinks that the trail will damage PG’s image , where has he been living , explain to me why a fleet of RCMP cars went up 1st avenue and onto McLean yesterday , There is no Timmies down that street .

Posted by: tractor on June 6 2014 6:13 AM
On a brighter note, maybe this frost will kill caterpillars.

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And the mosquitos! They seem to be worse then normal this year.

Posted by: lildigger on June 6 2014 12:08 AM
Uh. Are we allowed to talk about the trial?

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I suspect you’ll be seeing any comments on the trial being deleted. Which I agree with but I don’t get a vote here.

If you happen to go into one of the major car dealers here in PG to have some minor work done and they present you will a list of recommended repairs because parts are EXCESSIVELY worn, go to another place and get a second opinion, I did and saved almost $900 because I checked it out and found they were lying to me.
I guess the mechanics get a bonus for every repair they bring in.
Yes I checked with management… I was left with the feeling they knew about it and thought it a good practice though they never outright admitted it, but thenever denied it either.

so heads up people. If in doubt get a second opinion, $40 is better than $900.

I agree BCRacer. Except my recent experience was the reverse. The local shop told me I needed a big repair. I took my car to the dealer, and they stuck their head under the hood, and made me do it to. They said I didn’t need that much repair work done.

Saved me $700+.

Sorry you guys but the frost won’t have any affect on the mosquitoes and caterpillars. On a brighter note, these cool crisp mornings usually mean a nice day.
I did notice though that the caterpillars are very small and few this year in our area. Hopefully it will be the last year here for them.

Jurors are instructed to not look at any news about the trial but you know how that goes. I don’t think comments will be allowed for legal reasons. They have been advised of this.

Bcracer – Or the second shop missed a bunch of stuff and your driving an unsafe vehicle now. $40? What did they do, top up the washer fluid?

OMG there’s Frost????

Oh no that’s terrible because my garden is…

WAIT… I live in Vernon… we have no frost… ha ha ha…

Ok seriously… I do MISS PG… but NOT the spring Frost…

I don’t see why comments on the trial are not allowed as long as it isn’t something that is uncalled for, but discussing the trial should be perfectly fine. Maybe just moderate comments before posting them.

Huh, I suspect this would be the reason. As individuals we do have the right to voice our opninion. However, Opinion 250 does not have the same liberty.

We all have our own opinion on the case. however we must let the law of the land determine the outcome, with out any influencing.

Everyone is entitled to a fair trial. In other words, innocent until proven guilty of a crime. Anyone who decides someone is guilty before the decision is rendered is not allowing the process to unfold in a proper manner.
All media are subject to the same restrictions, just as you are as an individual.
Please respect the right of everyone to be entitled to a fair trial, it is the back bone of our society.
That is why we monitor the comments so closely.

sorry interceptor, but I have some mechanical knowledge which is why I was leary of the Dealers claim.
I was in attendence when the checks were made on my vehicle…these done by a licenced mechanic.
when you are told something is excessively worn it will show up immediately, my vehicle was not worn where they claimed.

so it is a good idea to double check, there are money hungry people out there who will do anything to make a dollar and be proud of however they do it…

You’re talking about the trail again…….

It dumped snow in the Pine Pass and Chetwynd on Wednesday. It was awful.

I agree Ben, there are those that are so quick to hang someone but if the role was reversed and it was them charged, they would want due proccess.
if it takes a day or a year, let the system work….for the most part it does, and well.
if it doesn’t then there are appeals.

Afraid to look in my greenhouse this morning. What’s with young men, angry at the world- with guns?? At least they caught the fellow in Moncton, alive.
And, am thinking of the families of victims, going through tough times during the local trial. Lived in the area and knew the parents of the youngest victim.

I would really love it if everyone would realize that a roundabout is NOT a 4 way stop. This week, a jerk who probably thought he was completely in the right, started swearing at my mum as she was going through the roundabout (using the proper procedure). He was angry that she didn’t let him in…well, sorry, but she’s NOT supposed to!!

http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/roundabouts/

I lived in Britain for 6 years and learned to love the roundabout – I think people here would love them too if they took the time to learn to use them properly.
*rant over*

I live in the crescent area and notice lately a toxic smell every time I use the hose to water my flowers etc.?

Speaking of Britain, I was surfing the Internet the other day and ran into this story from the UK Daily Mail;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2646897/Canada-bans-government-meteorologists-talking-climate-change.html

The reason why this is news in other parts of the world is because Canada is the only country, that muzzles it’s scientist!

Just another example of Harper Conservative Big Oil government dictatorship.

Enjoy your Friday, and weekend everyone :-)

I wanted to ask this question but didn’t know where to ask….

On this LNG project; I realize the issue is getting the product to market, but wouldn’t we as a province be better off to build gas fired electrical plants in the Northeast and export electricity rather than LNG?

oh god, then “they” will need to build power lines to the intended customers. Those customers are in Asia.

Now that would just be another clusterLuck on tax payer dime.

Posted by: TrishC on June 6 2014 8:47 AM
I would really love it if everyone would realize that a roundabout is NOT a 4 way stop. This week, a jerk who probably thought he was completely in the right, started swearing at my mum as she was going through the roundabout (using the proper procedure). He was angry that she didn’t let him in…well, sorry, but she’s NOT supposed to!!

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Yep. The roundabout is the showcase of just how stupid the average Prince George driver is.

Northboy, that is the question everyone with any common sense is asking. The government is claiming to only generate “green” power. BC Hydro does run a gas turbine in Ft Nelson, and there is Burrard thermal in the lower mainland. But the government will not entertain any proposal for new NG generation.

So, instead of using the abundant gas to run a province, we will use massive amounts of energy to compress it and sell it to someone else. They, in turn, will burn this gas.

Rumblings of considering using the gas at home give some promise. Let’s hope clearer heads prevail and we do utilize this resource to its full potential. Some LNG export combined with domestic use would be great. Let’s not put all our eggs in one basket. We are late to the LNG game and the #’s we have been given for both price and production are unbelievably optimistic.

Hrdro electric generation is cheaper than natural gas and not subject to world price varabilities.

Bcracer do you have any comments on the RCMP funerals?.

I see the BCTF is running out of money in its strike fund and the teachers might not get strike pay for this round. Really? Two weeks of rotating strikes and they have no money left? Teachers might want to start asking where the 40 million a year in union dues is going exactly (besides the anti-liberal ads during the last election that the members didnt get a vote on paying for)

Hydro is cheaper than gas, ROR is a bad plan but that hasn’t stopped anyone, biomass generation is worse for airsheds than NG. Transportation can run on gas.
I work for an energy co. that approached the government with a very viable gas generating proposal. “Can’t generate with fossil fuels” was the reply. Small biomass plants are proposed all over the province, and I’m okay with that. But let’s not deny NG just on the Fossil Fuel principal.

I believe the “clean energy” development plan to power LNG plants has been altered, watered down if you will, to now allow them to generate their power in house, with the same gas they will be exporting. Again, this is economical and makes sense.

So I will ask again. Why can’t BC utilize this resource, at home, to it’s utmost potential? Oh yeah, that’s right, it’s not a dirty fuel if someone else is burning it.

I was waiting outside the dental clinic on 15th the other day for about an hour, facing Tim Horton’s drive through lane. I counted 5 individuals using hand held phones glued to the ear while leaving, 4 female, 1 male.

What a goldmine for the cops sitting in an un-marked car! Multiply that bounty by the number of Timmys in town – the new RCMP digs can be paid off early for sure!

So our premier has a $475,000 credit card bill and she thinks acceptable. Twice what Campbell spent a year. Shows how out of touch she is with reality

interceptor: “I see the BCTF is running out of money in its strike fund and the teachers might not get strike pay for this round. Really? Two weeks of rotating strikes and they have no money left? Teachers might want to start asking where the 40 million a year in union dues is going exactly (besides the anti-liberal ads during the last election that the members didnt get a vote on paying for)”

Agreed. If I was a teacher, I’d be pretty livid with the union right now. The BCTF should have a massive war chest built up, not next to broke.

PG: “I was waiting outside the dental clinic on 15th the other day for about an hour, facing Tim Horton’s drive through lane. I counted 5 individuals using hand held phones glued to the ear while leaving, 4 female, 1 male.”

Yep, it still seems there are people who refuse to hang up and drive. I couldn’t imagine how these idiots would feel if they ran someone over while gabbing on their phones. How important would that conversation be then?

govsuxs “So I will ask again. Why can’t BC utilize this resource, at home, to it’s utmost potential? Oh yeah, that’s right, it’s not a dirty fuel if someone else is burning it.”

Good question…perhaps a BC Liberal could answer that for you?? Anyone?? I thought the whole planet shared the same atmosphere. Maybe I dreamed that.

PNG is jacked rates 25% this spring… hope it is a warm winter coming..just saying.

A young woman followed me all the way down university hill on her phone yesterday. She was also so close that I probably could have listened in on the discussion if our windows had been open. Pretty frustrating as someone who is working really hard to earn her license back after having to turn it in for medical reasons. Some people really take that license for granted.

JB….saw a video the other day from a dash cam, guy pulled out right in front of him and caused a crash, phone in his ear, luckily nobody hurt, but a few feet away from a bad t-bone…another picture of a motorcycle inside of a Volkswagon, three people dead, phone in ear and pulled out. There is evidence that this is WORST than drunks on the road, however, there are many who know better.

This is NOT to defend people who talk and drive but to point out a pet peeve of mine: That picture of the bike inside the volkswagon happened close to 15 years ago and no cell phones were involved. Horrible accident yes, but for some reason that picture has become the poster story for cell phone accidents and it drives me crazy…
ps – that car turned left in front of the bike, it didnt “pull out” as the internet story goes.

Bcracer – Or the second shop missed a bunch of stuff and your driving an unsafe vehicle now. $40? What did they do, top up the washer fluid?

Sorry for double post, obviously left my phone on the page :)

interceptor and JB, earlier both of you mentioned the 40 Million in dues collected each year by the BCTF.

My calculations, which I based upon what another poster stated BCTF members pay each year, suggest that the BCTF is actually collecting something in the neighbourhood of $70 Million per year! $70,000,000.00 per year!!!

BCTF members should be outraged that their Unions Strike Fund, after a very minor work stoppage so far, is broke!

Perhaps the BCTF needs to appoint a Math Teacher as their new Treasurer, because I suspect that the current Treasurer is a Home Economics “Cooking” Teacher who might be “cooking” the books, haha!!

I wonder what it takes to understand
“Everyone inside the Roundabout has the Right of Way, This is Driving 101!

Those interested in the restrictions on the discussion of trials may find this report (aimed at journalists) of the Canadian Judicial council helpful: http://www.cjc-ccm.gc.ca/cmslib/general/news_pub_other_cjsm_en.pdf.

Maybe the BCTF is broke and squandered all of their funds thinking there would be a different government in place at this time.

I wonder if the BCTF has been dipping into the Strike Fund to pay other expenses, such as litigation costs?

Teachers in BC can’t afford to go on strike and the teachers union in Ontario owned part of MLES. There may be some shoddy money management with the BCTF. Wouldn’t surprise me if the union reps and leaders have homes scattered around the Shuswap.

Here is an interesting read on the economics of falsified climate change.

Take note of reference to Maurice Strong the father of falsified climate change.

Ontario Canada. A mirror of Americas economic future mortgaged to falsified climate science.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/03/ontario-canada-a-mirror-of-americas-economic-future-mortgaged-to-falsified-climate-science/

Wonder why the Citizen does not print articles like this, oh wait that would go against their biased the science is settled view point.

govsux: “So I will ask again. Why can’t BC utilize this resource, at home, to it’s utmost potential? Oh yeah, that’s right, it’s not a dirty fuel if someone else is burning it.”
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Because we (think we) need to import some other country’s money to live. That’s why. Whether it’s ‘dirty fuel’ here, or there, or at all, is beside the point. As long as we (can all be indoctrinated to keep our) focus on the things that are relatively unimportant, we’ll never ask any questions about the things that really are. Like why we (think we) have to import some other country’s money to live. Would we all just fold up and die if we couldn’t?

As a Citizen subscriber of more than 4 decades I am appalled about the paper printing comments by the alleged mass murderer on trial here including the “F” word, repeatedly.

A new low in journalism, in my opinion. Too bad. And too sad. It’s a slippery slope.

Whatever.

Interceptor…you made my day with that one…apparently the bike was going 160 mph or something and couldn’t react. Splat, three dead, including a newbie biker. That was embarrassing….HOWEVER…the other case where the pick up pulled out and got hit happened this spring in northern Ontario, and was well documented on the guys dash cam cause the guy was trying to lie his way out of it.

Thanks for pointing out my error.

@PrinceGeorge

I can’t imagine it is the first time it is you have ever seen a couple of f-bombs in print and it was after all a direct quote of the accused statement to the cop and not something the reporter wrote. If they had substituted a few characters like @#@$% I bet you would still know what the word was.

If you see a car review in the paper that says “this is the best F$&@ing car I have ever driven” then you have reason to question journalistic standards.

Love the energy debate . This seems to be the only place that is discussing it . The most absurd thing about this provinces energy needs is that we have as much if not more ,than Iceland . We have the second largest group of volcanos in North America . And geothermal vents in the rest of the province . I’m an all of the above guy except nuclear but if we only utilized geothermal we would need nothing else . There is no need to burn anything . Solar is getting less expensive every year . Nice to see more and more panels everywhere . More and more are showing up on top of RVs . Yesterday I talked to a guy at the gas station that said he doesn’t need to run his gas generator . His wife said she doesn’t miss the noise and stink . Or the trailer parks .

Ewitt, it was something that a reporter wrote! Direct quote or not, we are trying to teach our children and grand children proper manners and that ought to include the use or not use of certain swear words!

It could have said: (expletive deleted)!

Obviously my standards are higher than some other people’s…would you allow that in church or in the Legislature, the Parliament, a synagogue or a temple under the pretext that a direct utterance by someone is being quoted verbatim?

Regrettable error, no question!

The Citizen is a newspaper which has no X-rating, yet.

Got a tip for them who don’t like mosquitoes. Kyolic garlic in tablet form at Stores or Ave Maria. Excellent for controlling cholesterol AND mosquitoes.
No, you don’t smell like garlic and mosquitoes really don’t like it.

“Ewitt, it was something that a reporter wrote! Direct quote or not, we are trying to teach our children and grand children proper manners and that ought to include the use or not use of certain swear words!”

Like sex, kids know all about swearing before grade 1. This isn’t new PG and it isn’t going to change. OMG an F bomb in the paper! What will we ever do!

@PrinceGeorge

You could shout those words at the top of your lungs in some churches and do far less damage to kids than what people in positions of trust do to kids in backrooms and basements of churches. Almost as bad is the cover ups that reach right up to the guy with the pointy hat in Rome.

As for the politicians, I’m sure that most people reading the paper utter those exact words when reading about what goes on behind the scenes.

Guess they could have used fuddle-duddle.

Too bad that they are not taught not to swear! However, if the adults think it is o.k. and condone it – I suppose nobody will do anything! You do agree apparently that it is no big deal and that it is o.k. in other places, like the ones I mentioned above! If you don’t agree, why should a newspaper be an exception?

Whatever.

I don’t think you would shout that in church or have you tried it already? In the Legislature the speaker would censure you and you would be asked to leave.

Excusing or justifying one bad thing with one that is even worse makes no sense and does not accomplish or improve anything. But, one thing leads to another so you do have a point.

But, whatever.

Comment Posted by: TrishC on June 6 2014 8:47 AM
I would really love it if everyone would realize that a roundabout is NOT a 4 way stop. This week, a jerk who probably thought he was completely in the right, started swearing at my mum as she was going through the roundabout (using the proper procedure). He was angry that she didn’t let him in…well, sorry, but she’s NOT supposed to!!

http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/roundabouts/

I lived in Britain for 6 years and learned to love the roundabout – I think people here would love them too if they took the time to learn to use them properly.
*rant over*
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Agreed. They are awesome and they rely on drivers having brains. Therefore they will never reach their full potential.

Drivers out west had better smarten up. Many of you are a recipe for disaster.

Roundabouts are also safer than traditional intersections as they eliminate t-bone crashes.

Saw a person get a ticket from driving a jeep with the doors off. What is interesting about this is that it’s okay to ride a motorcycle with virtually no protection.

Maybe the BCTF is broke because it is spending too much of its money on things like this BC Child Poverty Initiative?

http://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bctf.ca%2FWorkArea%2FDownloadAsset.aspx%3Fid%3D28351%26libID%3D28341

Or maybe the BCTF cares so much about our children that it been spending too much of its money on Social Justice issues that affect our children directly and indirectly, you know raising awareness about: antipoverty, antiracism, child labour, environment and sustainability, globalization, trade agreements and education, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) issues in schools, peace and global education, sexual health education, status of women, etc.

http://bctf.ca/SocialJustice.aspx?id=6024

Maybe the BCTF has been spending its money on child related issues that our provincial Lib-Con government, year after year, demonstrates as not being important: like BC currently having the highest child poverty rate in Canada at 18.6 %, and having the highest child poverty rate in Canada almost every single year since these uncaring Lib-Cons have been in power.

Then there’s this government’s drastic budget cuts to youth in care:

http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/Daphne+Bramham+Drastic+budget+cuts+youth+care+result/9579131/story.html

So who thinks this government is negotiating with the BCTF in the “best interests of our children”? Yeah… right… the evidence says different!!! This Lib-Con government neglects children, they always have, they always will. BCTF, on the other hand at least shows it cares about our kids, spending its money to help create awareness about the social issues facing our children, to the point of not leaving enough for themselves perhaps? Lots of “good” reasons why the BCTF could be low on funds, but what do the teacher bashers care anyway?

@PrinceGeorge

They are only words, if the paper had used “(expletive deleted)” I would think that it would be replaced by the f bomb in most people’s mind. Another example is on news south of the line you hear “the N word” multiple times in a story. What word pops into your head when you hear that phrase? Do you think that if they said the actual word it would be repeated as often on a newscast?

Most kids have a full vocabulary of swear words in early primary school so it is not like they have never seen or heard such language.

Maybe you should go up to the jail this weekend and wash Cody’s mouth out with soap for swearing in front of a police officer.

@peeps

“Maybe the BCTF is broke because it is spending too much of its money”……like any left wing organization or government thinks every pot of money is bottomless as a Boston Pizza coke and gets a puzzled look on their face when it is suddenly all gone.

Hey ewitt, this 250news is a digital form of a newspaper! I am sure Ben and Elaine won’t let you introduce the (according to you completely acceptable) F word here on this site! One of the three rules for commenting are: Keep it clean!

What do you say to that?

“Maybe you should go up to the jail this weekend and wash Cody’s mouth out with soap for swearing in front of a police officer.”

From the bizarre to the ridiculous!

Whatever.

Hate to tell you but you just introduced it unless the F word you made reference to is frog or fern or fuzz or fawn or phoney.

What is the difference between the actual word and N word or F word?

@ BeingHuman, Peeps, People#1 or whatever moniker you are using this evening, let’s take a look at the most recent “reduced” salary demands from the BCTF, shall we!

The BCTF has now tabled salary demands of 9.75% over a 4 year term, plus an annual Cost of Living Allowance, an amount that is to be determined. So, let’s ignore the Cost of Living Allowance for a moment.

Assuming that the average teacher in BC is paid $60,000.00 in salary excluding benefits, and assuming that we have 40,000 teacher on salary, the cost of their new offer in salary alone will cost the Government (you and I) the following ADDITIONAL amounts each year over the proposed 4 year term:

Year 1$58,500,000.00
Year 2$59,926,000.00
Year 3$61,374,000.00
Year 4$62,880,000.00

That totals an additional $242,680,000.00, almost a quarter of a BILLION dollars more over the 4 year term!

Remember, this is just the cost of the salary increase! It doesn’t include the base salaries that the increase was based upon AND it doesn’t include any Cost of Living Allowance.

In case you are wondering, the total salary costs for 40,000 teachers over the 4 year term would be $10,194,406,000.00!

That’s over 10 BILLION dollars over 4 years and it doesn’t include any Cost of Living Allowance, nor does it include the cost for benefits and pension contributions!

BeingHuman, you go on and on and on about what Saints our teachers are, fighting for social justice, blah, blah, blah! Heck, I’m more than happy to acknowledge that the vast majority of them, just like the vast majority of the rest of us are pretty decent people. But let us not forget for a moment, that the vast majority of all increases to the Provincial Education Budget go directly into the pockets of teachers, in the form of increased salaries, benefits and pension contributions.

They leave very little of the Provincial Education Budget behind for anything else, including building new schools, buying new text books, computers, sports and playground equipment among other things!

As long as the increases to the Provincial Education Budget go into the pockets of the BCTF’s members, the BCTF seems quite happy!

That’s just my humble little red-necked opinion!

seamut, what kind of comments are you wanting, that the death of the police officer is tragic and should never have happened…and that I send my condolences to the family and the friends of the officers …..
there is my comment ,
not sure why you asked that…..

Your previous callous comment on a teenagers funeral!

Posted by: ewitt on June 6 2014 7:55 PM
What is the difference between the actual word and N word or F word?

Uh, maybe self restraint, personal standards, respect for others who may not agree that the “F” word is acceptable in mixed company?
I agree with PrinceGeorge, the Citizen should not have printed the story verbatim, just because it was ‘actually’ what the low down pond scum murderer said.
I appreciate that 250 News has higher journalistic standards than the local birdcage liner (newspaper).
metalman.

Go sunnews and watch Down Wind it is an eye opener on wind power.

I agree…..the BCTF has not managed my pay deductions as I would have liked. I wonder if the union leaders are taking paycheques while they expect teachers to give up their salaries. In the US the private schools are proliferating and feeding into top ivy league universities. Teachers in these schools make over 100,000.k a year. My child won a scholarship to a top ivy league university. The students from the feeder private schools who atrended this university…. were two years ahead in curriculum and far advanced in computer language writing. The tuition for private schools in the states was approx. 30,000. per year. So Christy Clark just gave a huge wad of tax money to private schools in BC where the “elite ” attend. Your kids are not being educated to this level…..unless you have the money for this. Public schools used to be much better.

Over a half billion on a roof at B.C. place paid for by the working stiff, Port Mann Over three billion. The list could go on and and on . do I use this stuff no. Do I need teachers to educate my children ? yes. Over 750 govt workers making over 200 thousand a year , do the math. Krusty spending personally like it grows on trees ,,, there is lots of money , geez krusty says so with the lng .

P.S and when civil servants want a raise they get it ,,, right now, nobody to stop them … life is grand hey :)

“The students from the feeder private schools who atrended this university…. were two years ahead in curriculum and far advanced in computer language writing.”

If this is a typical example of sentence structure and composition from a teacher in the public school system then there is no need to look any further to find root cause of why some kids are not as successful as those in private schools.

Just curious, what subject do you teach?

Annie23….. I notice that odor around my sink too. Usually when at sink, I have the water running and I wasn’t sure if was coming from the drain or the dishwasher. Interesting

Don’t know who peeps is but it looks like my comment you are responding to ewitt.

Ewitt states; “Maybe the BCTF is broke because it is spending too much of its money”…… like any “left wing” organization or government thinks every pot of money is bottomless as a Boston Pizza coke and gets a puzzled look on their face when it is suddenly all gone.”

Oh the irony ewitt… yet it is your right wing Lib-Con Government that thinks the pot of money is bottomless, as it continues to take us to RECORD levels of debt!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/somebody-needs-to-be-talking-about-bcs-debt-load/article4247786/

Don’t let facts and truth reality get in the way of your blind and baseless, Neo Lib-Con, right wing ideology ewitt!!! Thanks for the laugh of the night! ;-)

As for Hart guy’s “red neck opinion” that; “They (teacher’s salaries and benefits) leave very little of the Provincial Education Budget behind for anything else, including building new schools, buying new text books, computers, sports and playground equipment among other things!”

“Building new schools”? What??? Everyone and their dog knows this government has been closing schools and not building them! Over 24 of the schools, in School District 57 alone, have been closed since 2001. Over 200 schools in the province have been closed during that time as well! And Hart Guy talks about building new schools? What new schools compared to the massive closing of so many Hart Guy???

Then Hart Guy goes on to reveal more of his ignorance on the subject by stating “leaving very little of the Provincial Education budget behind for sports and playground equipment”. Umm… Hart Guy, sports and playground equipment does not come out of the Provincial Education budget, the money comes from School Parent Advisory Committees (PAC) fund raising! Here, maybe this might ring a bell because it is a story from your own area Hart Guy; “The Springwood and Austin Road PACs which originally raised the money to build those playgrounds are now located at Heather Park. The move last year at Springwood did leave one of its existing playgrounds intact. – See more at: http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/local/big-need-for-playground-equipment-1.1035995#sthash.xmcN3feP.dpuf

As for not being able to purchase school supplies and textbooks because of high teacher’s salaries and benefits? … yeah right, why don’t you blame the teachers on this story as well Hart Guy, the opposite is true where they have been throwing school supplies and textbooks out into the garbage; “School district officials are attempting to retrieve the supplies Glenview elementary school parents rescued from a dumpster this week, saying they can be used at other schools around Prince George. – See more at: http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/local/district-wants-dumped-materials-back-1.1095174#sthash.rsXkL9YK.dpuf

Yup blame everything on the BCTF and teachers Hart Guy, when you have absolutely no clue on how the public education system operates!!! Now get back to the shallow end of the pool Hart Guy, on this subject, you are in way over your head… AGAIN!!!

This describes many posters here on this site.

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Take the taxpayers money out of private education put it into public education and make education equal to all.

PG: “But, whatever. “

You keep saying this, but your posts are anything but.

“Building new schools”? What??? Everyone and their dog knows this government has been closing schools and not building them! Over 24 of the schools, in School District 57 alone, have been closed since 2001. Over 200 schools in the province have been closed during that time as well! And Hart Guy talks about building new schools? What new schools compared to the massive closing of so many Hart Guy??? “

Uh… enrollment is down dramatically in this district peeps since 2001. They don’t generally build schools in districts where there are not many students.

Talk about being in over your head.