In government, you have to do something. In politics, you have to look like you’re doing something. Right now the NDP aren’t accomplishing much of […]
Writer’s Block
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It happened literally at the 11th hour. It was just after 11 p.m. Monday night when the Statement of Financial Information came up on city […]
The BC Liberals’ FIVE THINGS THE NDP SHOULD DO TO HELP THE FOREST INDUSTRY (you won’t believe No. 6) has the benefit of coming from […]
Had lunch with Kelly McTaggart of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers on Tuesday. OK, there were about 50 Rotarians in the room too, so […]
No one asked the question. When city council dealt with the issue of why the cost of upgrading the Second Avenue parkade went from $2,725,000 […]
Cariboo North MLA Coralee Oakes had a chance to take the high road. But, alas, she chose to wallow in the muck. When Tolko Forest […]
Is Cariboo-Prince George in play? Right now it’s hard to imagine Justin Trudeau’s Liberals winning anything come October, but they seem to think Cariboo-Prince George […]
Does anyone in Alberta seriously think they can cut off oil and gas to British Columbia without repercussions? Does Jason Kenney (or Rachel Notley before […]
The only real surprise over Jody Wilson-Raybould’s ouster from the Liberal caucus this week was that it took this long. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned […]
I came across a genuine ‘fake news’ site the other day, which isn’t all that surprising or uncommon. However, it had nothing to do with […]
It could be a little crowded at tonight’s city council meeting. The group Enough Already! City of PG AAP, which is raising concerns about the […]
A couple of things should be mentioned when talking about the city’s 2019 budget that will dip into the taxpayers’ pocketbooks by another 4.3 per […]
BY BILL PHILLIPS Writer’s Block Jody Wilson-Raybould had to resign from cabinet. When this whole scandal about whether the Prime Minister’s Office put pressure on […]
It was an innocuous enough question. At the end of Premier John Horgan’s news conference at the BC Natural Resources Forum in Prince George last […]
Proportional representation is so 2018. Yes, I know there are other burning issues such as pipelines, blockades, and the spend-‘em-if-you-got-‘em ways of the provincial legislature, […]
It’s a New Year and that means it’s time for predictions. What will the future hold for us? Well, fear not, all will be told […]
What will Andrew Wilkinson do? There is a chance that the fate of the possibly ill-fated proportional representation referendum will rest with Wilkinson and the […]
In a week where international scientists are warning of an impending global catastrophe if we don’t address climate change, we, of course, went batshit crazy […]
Closing the Westwood Drive access to 22nd Avenue has nothing to do with pedestrian safety. It has everything to do with traffic flow. The Ministry […]
Long ago in the before times (before Internet, or more aptly the early days of the Internet), I was one of a small group of […]
Long ago in the before times (before Internet, or more aptly the early days of the Internet), I was one of a small group of […]
Premier John Horgan and the NDP caucus may have a tough decision coming up. As of Wednesday morning, only 215,187 of the 3,293,435 registered voters […]