Blog Entries http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com Thu, 22 May 2008 13:00:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Bylaw-or-Not-To-Bylaw-.html <p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 12px; margin: 0px">I see the new Citizen Poll is asking, should we support or not support an anti-idling bylaw in Prince George. My immediate reaction would be &quot;of course&quot;, as anything big or small that we can do to help Mother Nature, the better. But after a few moments of thought and yet another cup of coffee, my second thought came to me..... which was &quot;why bother&quot;?</p><p style="font: normal normal nor [...] Citizen Blogger Fri, 16 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Where-Are-The-Owners-.html <p>On Monday, after a long day at work, I came home and as per usual, I was greeted at the door by the wagging tail of my border collie. We do our constitutional and go out back so he can do his business. &nbsp;Only when we got there we are face to face with a huge black pit bull doing some territorial marking all over the back yard fence.</p><p>Because of the nature of the back yard design, we have now cornered this brute and he has no where to escape. My dog wants to check this out, but becaus [...] Citizen Blogger Tue, 13 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Beware-Of-Bill-C-51.html <p>How many of you are aware that our &quot;representatives&quot; in Ottawa have already passed the first reading of Bill C-51? &nbsp;How many of you have never heard of this proposed new legislation?</p><p>Bill C-51, if passed, will remove about 70% of the natural therapeutic supplements that you and I take on a daily basis and put them into the same category as pharmaceuticals. You will need a prescription from a Doctor to get them and a pharmacy to dispense them. It&#39;s not too far of a lea [...] Citizen Blogger Mon, 12 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Facebook-group-Restore-River-Road-and-Cottonwood-Island-Park.html <p>&quot;Join in support of the protest to remove the berm from River Road and to see a complete effort in restoring the road and Cottonwood Island Park A.S.A.P. The River Road berm was built during the flood of the Nechako river in hopes to prevent the flood waters from returning to the many important businesses to Prince George along River Road. &quot;</p><p><img src="http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/images/myblog/73//n11644128963_7556.jpg" border="0" alt="" /> </p><p>72+ pictures </p><p>htt [...] Citizen Blogger Thu, 01 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Apple-iphone-Canada.html <img src="http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/images/myblog/138/iphone.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="82" height="145" />&nbsp;Say it ain&#39;t so Ted Say it ain&#39;t so!<br />After waiting for over a year while our American counterparts drooled over the iphone, Ted Rogers announced Apr 29th that Rogers would be bringing in the iphone sometime this year. Nothing has been announced as to officially when or how much it will cost but techies have been waiting for this for a very long tme. Rumor has [...] Citizen Blogger Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Poor-Medical-treatment-to-dying-friend.html I am just sick to my stoumach with our medical system and I will tell you why. I have a friend who is currently residing in the P.G.R.H&nbsp; dying of emphysema and the nurses and Doc&#39;s treat him as if he is already dead. He was negelcted by his family Doc as well as the nurses at the hospital for 6 weeks before anyone came in to check on him. During this time he had come down with phnemonia and his oxygen was being restricted even more so to his brain causing confussion, fatigue and just ba [...] Citizen Blogger Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=My-daughter-is-missing-please-help-us-find-her.html <p>&nbsp;<img src="http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/images/myblog/73//n14903290894_4593.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />From Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14903290894 </p><p>Group InfoName:My daughter is missing: please help us find her&nbsp;&nbsp;Description:Michaela Marie Loiselle, 15, was last seen on April 10th. She is 5&#39;7&quot; 120lbs. She has been known to run away, but this is the longest she has gone without contact with her family or friends and the c [...] Citizen Blogger Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Sandy-Yards-who-should-be-responsible-for-cleaning-it-up-.html This really puzzles me, why would the city want to fine people for cleaning up the mess they made in our yards? I just don&#39;t get it, Ken Craig said in a news report that it would cost the tax payers money to clean up gravel that they spread all over our yards? Our taxes may as well be put to some good use because the potholes aren&#39;t getting any smaller in this holy city. The city needs to start paying us for damage done to our cars because of the craters out there, maybe we as tax pay [...] Citizen Blogger Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Latest-Comments.html <p><img src="http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/images/myblog/73//latest.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br />Here is a snapshot of the latest comments from our front page.<br />-WB </p> Citizen Blogger Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Site http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Clean-Up-Heritage-River-Trails.html <p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am a homeowner and resident of the Victoria &amp; Oak Street Neighbourhood and am deeply concerned about the amount of garbage and drug parafanilia I have found in our community. Now that the snow has started to melt I find countless needles and drug garbage everyday as I walk my dog. I decided that instead of always complaining and taking the &quot;someone else will deal with it&quot; attitude, Ive decided to do something about it. I plan on writing the city, the local papers, [...] Citizen Blogger Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=I-want-more....html <p>Check out http://content.lib.sfu.ca/pgpl/search.php</p><p>You can search Prince George newspapers from 1909 to 1951. I found this link on the lib&#39;s archive projects.</p> Citizen Blogger Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=smoking-125171.html They say smokers are putting a strain on the health care system.&nbsp; NOT&nbsp; Lets see now, smokers are a small population. What about the larger population of people who are stuffing their face with fast food&nbsp; and are becomming fat and clogging their arteries etc.. is that not a strain on the health care system? Or how about the large population of people who consume alcohol and are damaging their liver &amp; stomachs etc.. and driving drunk and killing other people, is that not a strai [...] Citizen Blogger Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Smoking.html <p>Why do all smokers&nbsp; complain about these laws yet do nothing to fight them. Stand up and be counted! There are so many&nbsp;other horrible things out there in this big bad world and yet they feel the need to pick on smokers! If they wanted&nbsp;smokers to quit so bad they would&nbsp; build drug reab centers for them. Wasent it said that tobacco addiction was as bad as herion? Did you know that lung cancer is more prevalent in large cities because of all the smog. So you cant walk down th [...] Citizen Blogger Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=The-death-and-life-of-Dith-Pran-and-how-it-changed-mine-.html &nbsp; <p>I first met Dith Pran a few weeks before Christmas in 1984.</p><p>I was 16 and in Grade 11. Despite the fact I now had a driver&#39;s licence and regular use of the family pickup, I couldn&#39;t land a date for a movie called The Killing Fields about the genocide in Cambodia.</p><p>So I went alone.</p><p>I left the theatre knowing a new word - genocide - and knowing my calling. I wanted to be a journalist.</p><p>Dith guided New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg through Cambodia as t [...] Citizen Blogger Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Unleashed-Dogs---Again!.html I was shopping at Spruceland yesterday, accompanied as usual by my Service Dog (on a leash)&nbsp; and had another encounter with an unleashed dog.&nbsp; This one was a head shaker!&nbsp; This woman was pushing a baby in a stroller, accompanied by a large mixed breed yellow dog.&nbsp; When the woman and child went into Save on Foods, she produced a leash and tied the dog outside.&nbsp; Later as I was leaving the store, she was in front of me, strolling down the sidewalk, dog unleashed.&nbsp; The [...] Citizen Blogger Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Question-of-the-Week.html Should the City of Prince George send the mayor, city manager and a city councillor on a trade mission to China prior to the Beijing Olympics?<p>This in itself brings up a question for me.. what would we be touting to offset the costs incurred? .. and to whom. </p> Citizen Blogger Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=the-problem-with-barack-obama.html <p>Hillary Clinton frightens me but no more than any other politician.</p><p>She lusts for power and its privileges and she honestly believes she knows what&#39;s best for her fellow citizens. No politician ever has the nerve to say that but why else would anyone run for office?</p><p>Barack Obama says he&#39;s running for office to make AMERICA a better place, to bring CHANGE to government, to give people HOPE. Those words are capitalized because he wants us to see them that way. To oppose him [...] Citizen Blogger Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=What-if-BC-was-a-democracy..html <p>What if BC was a democracy.</p><p>If BC was a democracy, we the voters would be able to tell the politicians, who are OUR servants, what WE the voters want done.</p><p>If BC was a democracy, politicians would be merely administrators or the public good, not feudal lords over us.</p><p>If BC was a democracy, we could recall politicians who didn&#39;t serve the people who elected him/her with relative ease.&nbsp; Not like it is now.</p><p>If BC were a democracy, the voters could have province w [...] Citizen Blogger Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=Richard-Dawkins.html <p>&nbsp;</p><p>I notice that Richard Dawkins, world famous God hater, is coming to Vancouver.&nbsp; For $500 a person, $750 a couple, or $5,000 a table (of ten) people can hear him rail against God and the Bible.&nbsp; Mr. Dawkins is the author of the book, The God Delusion.&nbsp; He will be speaking on Evolution and Religion at The Four Seasons Hotel.</p><p>I think the predominant religion of British Columbia is no longer Christianity or the Judeo-Christian religion for that matter.&nbsp; It i [...] Citizen Blogger Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=723&lang=en&show=My-thoughts.html Well today is alright but one thing that realy made me mad is the CNC&#39;s thought of not&nbsp;allowing people with&nbsp;disibilities go to college and all the cut backs for the teachers its just not fair at all its not right.&nbsp;&nbsp; Citizen Blogger Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100