shhhhhhhhhhhh you might wake them up and they’ll start whining..:)

Have a ggreat weekend

Hug your children, you don’t even need a reason. Just do it.
metalman.

Yesterday afternoon, I had to do a bit of running around to several small businesses in the Hart! These included the new Shoppers Drug Mart, the Hart Home Hardware, the Dollar Store, Save-on-Foods and in between a quick stop at McDonalds to grab a coffee to go.

Every business that I entered provided excellent and courteous service, from staff that ranged in age from young teenagers to those with more than a few years under their belts.

I was met with friendly greetings such as “Hi, how are you today?’ and “Hello, how may I help you?”

I was offered assistance in finding what I was looking for! I was asked if I had found everything that I was looking for!

I was thanked for coming in! Everybody extended a “have a nice day” or a similar type of comment as I left!

Kudos to each and everyone in these Hart businesses for the excellent customer service provided!

Gotta love the Hart!!

Still no word on the victor in the chili contest?

Guess Canada will think twice before recruiting workers from Africa

DOGS!!!! Holy Hanna there are some inconsiderate neighbors out there! If your damned dog is barking please quiet them down. Nobody wants to hear your dog’s barking incessantly for hours on end!

I’m talking about you people in the Rochester area of College Heights! Shut your damned dogs up!

Political correctness has got to stop…. People want to change our national anthem because of the line “in all thy sons command” offends them as its not gender neutral… How stupid..

Besides that.. Have a great weekend everyone…

Good morning all ☺

Can we practice stopping at a STOP sign properly this week?
Why is everyone always in a race. Where has people’s patience gone?
Life is too short.
Happy Friday enjoy your dash!

Now that T2 is on record saying, “… Sophie and I wish all those observing this holy month a blessed and peaceful Ramadan.” does this mean we’ll be hearing people say “Merry Christmas!” this coming December?

I don’t believe her. Does anyone believe anything she says anymore?

I live in Pineview and love it. However we sometimes lack in some of the services others in the area enjoy. We have been watching Telus install internet in our community for the last couple of years. It was progressing slowly but it is a big project so patience is the key. I was told by Telus in early February that we would be online in 3 months. Hooray? Well maybe not, 4 months later no sign of any progress so another phone call. Sorry no plans for your road in at least the next 6 months. So if you live in Pineview and you have DSL good for you, if you don’t…. Don’t hold your breath.

Where are the cops, I had 3 cars and a truck pass me on foothills between 1st and 15th last night and they must of been doing over 90 km. Used to see them there a lot a few years back, but not anymore.

Rip Gordie Howe

Here’s a brand new environmental regulation that’s right up there with the water based road line paint fiasco. On Vancouver Island (not sure about the rest of BC) any pre-1991 drywall waste – apparently all wallboard has a date stamp – “may contain asbestos” and must be disposed of accordingly. Though any asbestos is typically in the mudding compound, not the drywall, no matter. If you can’t prove its vintage, it’s deemed to be pre-1991.
What this means is that it has to be double bagged in approved 6 mil poly bags taped/tied according to regulations. And only select disposal sites will take it, and it will cost you $950/ton to unload it. These costs are prohibitive for a homeowner doing a little reno project. Any guesses as to where this stuff is going to end up? I’m all for being green but this is out of control.

Hey doneright, when you are going 30 k , it just seems like they are going 90…..keep up!

Like to say I,m impressed with our RCMP. Never see them playing games to catch motorists, just out there to keep us safe and remind us to slow down. Tho nothing is perfect, I do think they are the best national police force in the world which compliments the best country to live in on earth. So glad to be Canadian. Have a safe weekend all, and lets go Sharks !

Going back to the N drivers… They should change the law that they can’t drink any beverage or smoke or eat while operating and also carry only one passenger.. I see too many having a pop and trying to make a turn, forgetting their signal lights or gets turned on as they are making the turn. Having other passengers is a big distraction to them, especially if they are all teens

The law states that N drivers can only have one passenger unless they are family members.

Search . Vertical farming game-changer for Manitoba First Nation .

Too many restrictions on N drivers now. Nothing but an easy money grab. They are making it impossible for them to insure a vehicle in their own name. Many young drivers need their own vehicle so they can get to work but with the high cost of insurance they are making it impossible.

It’s come to light . The reason Christy was able to brag about SiteC air quality was that she turned off the air monitoring equipment . The people of bc have been had one more time and thankfully the federal gov is not happy . It will only cost us an additional 400K in fines . I think krusties well beyond her best before date by about twelve years . The story is @desmog.ca

Finally someone taking Greenpeace to task.

Jun 08, 2016
The Environmental Spectator: Greenpeace Faces a Resolute Opponent
Marita Noon

Finally, courage to counterpunch the green bullies.

When the name Resolute was chosen in 2011, after the merger of Bowater and Abitibi-Consolidated, the Canadian company, a global leader in the forest products industry and the largest producer of newsprint in the world, likely didn’t know what a harbinger it was. Today, it stands alone, set in purpose, with firmness and determination. Displaying the rare courage to stand up to the typical environmental extremists’ campaign of misinformation and shaming designed to shut it down, Resolute Forest Products is fighting back.

Many people are probably unaware of the shakedown tactics used by groups whose touchy-feely names belie their true goals.

Like most companies, Resolute originally went along. As Peter Foster explains in the Financial Post: “a cabal of radical environmental non-governmental organizations, ENGOs – including Greenpeace, ForestEthics and the David Suzuki Foundation – agreed to stop their campaigns of customer harassment in return for the members of the Forest Products Association of Canada, FPAC, agreeing to sanitize a swathe of the Canadian Boreal forest, and to ‘consult’ on development plans. Astonishingly, governments played no part.” The result was the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement. The ENGOs ultimately aspired to put the majority of the Boreal forest off limits – ending economic development. Regarding the Greenpeace-promoted concept of “intact forest landscape protection,” Laurent Lessard, Quebec’s Minister of Forest, Wildlife and Parks, says it threatens “absolutely devastating” economic implications.

Resolute had been a major supporter of the Agreement and has participated in other efforts between ENGOs and industry to work out differences. Despite that, using a campaign of lies and intimidation, ENGOs have constantly attacked Resolute. At one point, in 2012, the false claims were so egregious, Resolute threatened legal action against Greenpeace – which garnered an unprecedented apology and retraction from Greenpeace. However, it came back with vengeance. Greenpeace continued to publicize the same false statements and dubbed Resolute a Boreal forest “destroyer.”

Engaged in a war without violence, Greenpeace has since attacked Rite-Aid Pharmacy for “getting millions of pounds of paper from controversial logging giant Resolute Forest Products,” calling Resolute “a company with a history of environmental destruction.” Greenpeace was successful with a similar harassment campaign against Best-Buy. Resolute was the company’s primary paper supplier, but due to the shaming, Best-Buy announced it would seek other sources. Greenpeace has no plans to stop the tactic. Other targeted companies include Canadian Tire (a retailer with more than 1,700 outlets), Home Depot and Office Depot, Proctor & Gamble and 3M. Foster reports: “Greenpeace itself has calculated that its campaigns have cost Resolute at least $100 million.”

Somewhere between the Greenpeace retraction and May 2013, an epiphany – similar to what occurred between the president of the U.S. and the space alien in the movie Independence Day – must have taken place. In the clip, the captured alien is choking someone with its tentacle and the president is trying to negotiate with it. He tries to reason with the alien and suggests that they could “coexist.” He asks the alien what it wants them to do. The alien simply responds: “Die.” Resolute must have realized that no matter how many agreements it might sign, the global network of ENGOs will come back with more and more rigid requirements until the tentacles choke the company out.

On May 23, 2013, Resolute filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace claiming it damaged the company’s “business, goodwill and reputation.” The suit asserts defamation, malicious falsehood, and intentional interference with economic relations and seeks damages of $5 million as well as punitive damages of $2 million, plus costs. Greenpeace says the suit “is an effort to subdue Greenpeace into silence and send a message to other groups that they should stay quiet.” It believes the suit should have been thrown out, but despite several attempts, the Judge has disagreed and allowed unflattering accusations about Greenpeace’s global law-breaking activities to remain.

While the Canadian lawsuit makes its way through the courts and the appeals process, Resolute has just taken another bold step to defend itself against the green bully’s attacks.

On May 31, Resolute took a page from the ENGO’s playbook and, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, filed a civil RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) suit against Greenpeace and a number of its associates who, though they claim to be independent, act cooperatively. The RICO Act intended to deal with the mob as a loose organization, or “enterprise,” with a pattern of activity and common nefarious purposes, such as extortion. (Greenpeace has asked the Justice Department to use the RICO Act to investigate oil companies and organizations that sow doubts about the risks of climate change.)

The 100-page complaint alleges that Greenpeace and its affiliates are a RICO “enterprise.” According to the Resolute news release, it describes the deliberate falsity of the malicious and defamatory accusations the enterprise has made and details how, to support its false accusations, “Greenpeace has fabricated evidence and events, including, for example, staged photos falsely purporting to show Resolute logging in prohibited areas.” The suit also calls Greenpeace a “global fraud” out to line its pockets with money from donors and says that “maximizing donations, not saving the environment, is Greenpeace’s true objective.” Additionally, it cites admissions by Greenpeace’s leadership that it “emotionalizes” issues to manipulate audiences.

In the U.S. lawsuit, Resolute is seeking compensatory damages in an amount to be proven at trial, as well as treble and punitive damages.

Patrick Moore, one of the original founders of Greenpeace, is disappointed that the group that originally wanted to help, is now an extortion racket. He told me: “I am very proud to have played a small role in helping Resolute deal with these lying blackmailers and extortionists.”

Discovery in both the Canadian and U.S. lawsuits will open up records and could well peel back the moralist tone to expose a global job-destroying, anti-development agenda. For too long ENGOs have been allowed free rein over regulating natural resources in what is really economic warfare on workers.

At a recent meeting, the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers, according to Foster, “acknowledged that it was time to stand up and recognize ‘the significant economic implication of misinformation’” – though one has to wonder what took them so long.

Resolute is counter-punching the green bullies – and it’s about time. Just ask the coal miners in West Virginia or the farmers in Central California who are wild with enthusiasm for the Trump candidacy that promises to end the regressive regulations and return the U.S. to economic strength.

Hopefully other companies will now tune into the public’s change in attitude and, with firmness and determination, will, also, fight back to protect shareholders and workers.

The Connaught Youth Center that also serves as a Community Center now has NO Parking out front as now there is bike lanes being installed on both sides of 17th , for the odd person that uses that street to ride their bike. This is so DUMB and one sided.

Why are the “Bike Lanes” so WIDE ?
They should only be 1 meter wide as that is enough room for a bike and passenger and they are by LAW –NOT allowed to ride side by side.

Ataloss, I take it that you aren’t willing to look at both sides of an argument?

Your way or the highway?

You’ll defend our right to express our opinion, as long as our opinion aligns with yours?

Is that how it is?

The Prince George Herald has reported on statistics on bike accidents released by ICBC in conjunction with their work with motorists to increase safety for cyclists. In Prince George according to ICBC stats, 17 cyclists are injured each summer between June and September. That number jumps to 670 when you take into consideration the province as a whole, averaging 5 cyclist accidents per day in the summer. Four out of five of those crashes happen at intersections according to ICBC. So how do you prevent a crash at an intersection if you are a cyclist? The primary thing you need to do is assume that other motorists have not seen you. It does not matter whether you have the right of way or not, if you are a cyclist and are involved in a crash with a motor vehicle, you are going to be the one that suffers. Because of that take the extra precaution to make sure that motorists have seen you in the intersection. If you are riding at night make sure that you are wearing reflective gear and using a light. Use appropriate hand signals so that motorists know what you are doing and make sure that your movements are predictable to motorists. Do not cross an intersection in the cross walk unless you are walking your bike. One of the most common accidents between cars and bikes at intersections occurs when a motorist makes a right hand turn, cutting off the cyclist. As you approach the intersection always be on the lookout for cars with their signal lights on. If a car has a right turn signal light on, make sure that they know that you are there before you proceed. Be aware of cars that do not have turn signals on but that look like they are intending to execute a turn. Know when you are at the intersection that the most likely place to be involved in a crash on a bike is at an intersection and ride accordingly. Stay Safe There you go . That took about two minutes . Are ya new to this internet thingy ?

Prince George Herald???? Go away tool.

You guys have absolutely no sense of humour . It’s just like Ezra s. Mutt stuff . Never read anything with out a byline or header .

Rex Murphy along with Mark Steyn are about the only rational journalists in Canada. Hang onto your wallets folks.

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