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A national business student roundtable that was headed for the University of Northern B.C. is struggling to find a backup venue just days ahead of its event, organizers say.

Universities belong to their communities and communities belong to their universities. One cannot exist without the other.

Prior to the pyrotechnics associated with the Canada Winter Games closing ceremonies, a different kind of heat was brought to UNBC Sunday morning, with Prince George RCMP making an arrest on campus. Police responded to the school at around 11:15 a.m.

A strike at UNBC is not a certainty, but picket lines on Thursday are an educated guess. According to the university's faculty association "we are very far apart" on wage issues.

If the Canada's governor general could tell athletes to take any one thing away from their Canada Winter Games experience, it would be to appreciate the moment.

PRINCE GEORGE — Prince George RCMP and the B.C. Coroners Service are investigating the death of a three-year-old child. Mounties say the child was seriously injured by a vehicle in a residential neighbourhood on Saturday afternoon.

Sitting in the cozy - and stable - confines of the Otway Nordic Ski Centre, Bal Gosal remembers his first, tentative strides into the world of winter and play.

Be it Whitehorse or Halifax, PEI or Sherbrooke, winter or summer, Prime Minister Stephen Harper helped open every Canada Games since his election in 2006. Every Games that is except the 25th edition that began Feb. 13 in Prince George.

A 22-year-old Alberta man was arrested Wednesday evening for allegedly riding his snowmobile along the gravel shoulder of Highway 5 while impaired. Valemount RCMP said he was apprehended after police were called to a report of a stranded motorist.

Underneath all the sport competitions, music concerts, pin trading and poutine there were some large meetings behind closed doors held over the past two weeks between government cabinet ministers at the Canada Winter Games.