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I think it’s safe to say spring has arrived in Prince George, and I’ve got spring fever, so this week it’s going to be some […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP After the long months of winter, it is always a welcome sight to see the first signs […]
This week is another tumultuous one. The first federal and provincial budgets delivered during a pandemic, the anxiety of the weekend’s COVID numbers and further […]
Taylor Swift’s song “Mine” has a line that I’ve loved since the first time I heard it. “You made a rebel of a careless man’s […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP With the summer construction season quickly approaching, I know many of you are disappointed that replacing Taylor […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning It seems that everywhere we turn we find a new scandal, some memory from the past that haunts us. […]
Even though The Exploration Place is closed, a lot is going on behind the scenes. One of the most exciting projects we are working on […]
Today’s column is not for the faint-hearted. It is a pair of stories about blood and (simulated) killing. You have been warned. First the personal […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP As we all look ahead to rounding the corner on COVID-19, our country is at a crossroads […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Jeremy Lin is probably best known to basketball fans for “Linsanity,” the amazing streak of clutch and dramatic moments […]
Prince George has a rich and sometimes controversial history, some of the most interesting parts not well-known among its population. Not many people are aware […]
So as of today, we’re a quarter of the way through 2021. It’s been kind of funny, over the last year, how many people I […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Larry Richards is a friend of mine from high school who has become a very popular speaker among conservative […]
Editor: Attention: Darlene Richards, Prince George B.C. We met at 16 years old in Chatham Ontario. In July, 1959 I met you at the […]
Holy moly, I was right. Yup, I’m just as surprised as you are. A few months back, when a few churches argued their right to […]
Saturday was the day my legs left me. Not literally, of course, but they left a note saying if I was going to go out […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP Two years. It’s now been over two years since the Liberals last tabled a budget in the […]
As with almost every sector, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted museums around the world. We might think of arts and culture as “nice to […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Censorship is a slippery slope, especially when there are no clear guidelines. The idea of cancel culture, where one […]
BY PETER EWART Special to the News The effects of climate change on the forests, landscapes, jobs and communities of British Columbia are increasingly evident […]
So you might figure since this column is running on St. Patrick’s Day, that I’ll be talking about all things Irish. Well, sorry to disappoint […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Early-20th Century electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz said, “There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool […]
BY ALEX HEMINGWAY Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives While the lives of millions of working people have been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, the wealth […]
My Mom has had a Family Circus cartoon on her fridge for years. One of the kids asks the mother: “What are the choices for […]
Spent an hour on the phone with the Canada Revenue Agency the other day and I’m neither homicidal, suicidal nor am I going to jail […]
BY GRACE LORE Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity VICTORIA – Today is International Women’s Day – a day recognized by the United Nations for more […]
Editor: Re: Teresa Mallam column Museum for Misfits … a place to hide the skeletons in our closet PG Daily News, March 5: My theory […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning Canadian Parliament recently took a stand on a human rights issue as courageous as Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney’s […]
We are, for good or bad — people with a past. There is no escaping this fact, erasing it from living memory, or rewriting our […]
The worst thing about the snow Sunday morning was not the depth of it. There was a lot of it, but nothing we hadn’t seen […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP Our natural resources sector is the backbone to our national economy. As we here in northeastern B.C. […]
BY PETER EWART Special to the News On February 17, the National Firearms Association (NFA) recorded a podcast on the issue of pending gun control […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning My earliest memories of baseball revolve around the 1969 Chicago Cubs. Enthusiasm just resonated off Wrigley Field as the […]
Editor: My name is Richard Behn. I am a Dene Elder and citizen. I hold no elected office. I speak for myself and my […]
There are times when the term Blacktop Blockhead doesn’t describe deeply enough the sheer stupidity of some drivers. I had the misfortune of seeing three […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP Instead of focusing on getting Canadians back to work, rebuilding our economy and securing our nation’s future, […]
BY HARRY BAINS Minister of Labour VICTORIA – We all know about or have personally felt the effects of the forestry industry’s downturn over the […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning I recently showed Steven Spielberg’s classic film about the Holocaust, Schindler’s List, to a group of students. Watching Nazi […]
Groundhogs are cute and, if you believe the folklore, they’re clever about forecasting our weather. Two weeks ago, three fan favourite groundhogs gave their annual […]
It’s funny, sometimes, what can trigger a memory, especially when you have to do some real searching in the memory banks to recall what it’s […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning I’ve asked myself this question every day for much of my adult life, and I now realize it’s one […]
Editor: Looking ahead to the 2021 season, British Columbia’s public fishery is facing a crisis. Conservatives have met with members of B.C.’s public fishery, who […]
We finally got that pesky Super Bowl out of the way, so now we can concentrate on the best day of the year for sports […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP “When will I be able to get the vaccine?” I know that is THE question that has […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning While most people agree that those who attacked the American Capitol buildings on Jan. 6 should be arrested and […]
It should be a no-brainer. But it’s not. City council has the ability Monday to give Prince George taxpayers something they haven’t had in a […]
So this is February. (Takes a look around.) Looks a lot like January, doesn’t it? It’s going to be shorter, we know that, and that […]
BY BOB ZIMMER Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP It was with much fanfare that the Liberals promised during the last election that they would plant […]
BY GERRY CHIDIAC Lessons in Learning My favourite textbook in university was entitled Marxism, an American Christian Perspective. Other students would hear me talk about […]
There’s a long-running joke, told at our expense, pitched to viewing audiences by UK or American talk show hosts, with openers such as: “How can […]
BY PETER EWART and DAWN HEMINGWAY Special to the Daily News As has become glaringly obvious, Canada does not have a public, self-reliant health authority […]
It was sort of strange last week to be talking to a couple of people around town and hear them talk about how winter was […]