Opinion/Letters to the Editor

It is unfortunate that Councillor Cameron Stoltz was the lone voice of reason when it came time to look at the rationale behind throwing a $1 million plus per year of taxpayer money at Initiatives Prince George.

The week long Vancouver celebration of the one year anniversary of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games is a reminder of how imbalanced this province has become.

Prince George city council has completed half of its budget deliberations. A 4.2 per cent tax increase is being considered for 2010.

School District 57 and the board of trustees are making headlines again this year, but I think it would be useful to see how different this looks from last year.

I was pretty disgusted to read the "Prince George white supremacists gaining momentum" article online this Friday, basically because of David Gallant's comment that the city's black metal scene is a hidden agenda for racism.

Once again the Ironman competition is on and while I applaud those who compete, I find myself fuming at the care they get as opposed to ordinary folk.

Taxi drivers, or anyone else for that matter, should not feel obligated to provide the RCMP with with a voluntary sample of their DNA, and the RCMP should not be allowed to ask a large section of the population to provide a DNA sample - especially si

I am disgusted by the school districts decision to even think about charging parents of rural children for the bus ride to school just months after closing our school.

In these days of $1.16 a litre regular gas and everyone and their dog going on about global warming just about every automaker has been climbing on the bandwagon and trying to make smaller cars that will get better gas mileage.

No dialogue is more consistently misinformed than that regarding aboriginal and treaty rights. Steven Kakinoosit's letter about education as a Treaty 8 right ('Sun's Still Shining', February 3) continues the practice.