Opinion

Despite all the announcements on housing affordability from the new David Eby government in Victoria, a recent report by one of Canada’s largest banks shows things on the ground have never been worse.

We’ve been defrauding our forests, our moose, our resilience, our tourism, hunters, trappers and ranchers, for a shallow mindset of short-term greed that is delivering not even the jobs that were promised us today.

The best part is that an air quality impact study done by the regional district indicated that this location would have little impact on Prince George.

Different Trains simultaneously asks and answers the question of how moral human beings can live in a world where the Holocaust happened.

Continual and perpetual growth in the extractive resource sector is simply accepted dogma, ignoring the fact the world is limited and finite

"All they care about is collecting a pay cheque at the expense of the taxpayer and the homeless."

This action gives zero thought to approximately 600 UFCW unionized employees.

For too long, government forest policy has been under the thumb of the giant globalized forest companies with just about everyone else relegated to the sidelines. And we are seeing the results of this lop-sided big company domination with the sorry state of our forests today.

Properly managed, forestry is a sustainable, renewable resource, a goose that can lay golden eggs forever, a generous gift for our children and our grandchildren.

Like with major sporting events, conventions bring people from out of town with the economic benefits rippling throughout our city.