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Editor: An open letter to UNBC President Daniel Weeks I am an alumnus of UNBC, having graduated in 2012 with an MA in Gender Studies, and I am very proud to have been accepted into the PhD (psychology) program at UNBC. I am also extremely privileged in that my PhD studies are supported by a UNBC graduate entrance scholarship as well as a very prestigious national scholarship. While I know that I am not unique in being inconvenienced by this strike, I will share some of the details of my...

  Editor: This is in response to the under-funding of education at all levels in B.C. No one in my family had completed a high school education. Due to violence in my family and poverty, I left home very early to waitress and live independently. At that time I had completed only Grade 8. A few years later I began adult upgrading – and eventually completed a doctorate. Through all of those years I waitressed and worked various jobs. Counselling, adult upgrading, caring college and...

Randy Thompson, CEO of VA Angels and Start Up Canada’s Prairie Angel of the Year is coming back to Prince George. He will be attending a couple of workshops on how to get your start-up financed, and then how to grow your company. “We are very excited to have Randy coming back to Prince George and we’re adding a little bit of an extra event to this visit,” said Marja Sheare of Innovation Central Society. “If you are not available to attend the workshops, you have the opportunity to come to...

Prince George’s Edna Ritchie is one of the province’s newest provincial court judges. Justice Minister Suzanne Anton announced that Ritchie and Vancouver lawyer Laura Bakan will join the ranks of the judiciary … Bakan on April 2 and Ritchie on March 20. The move is to address recent retirements and vacancies. They will each be assigned to a location, determined by the chief judge, to meet the needs of the court. Ritchie attended law school at the University of British Columbia and graduated...

The season came to an end for the Prince George Spruce Kings on Tuesday night at the Coliseum. The Kings lost 4-3 to the Chilliwack Chiefs, as the Chiefs swept the best-of-seven Mainland Division series in the BCHL playoffs. The winning goal for the Chiefs came on a power play with 20 seconds left in the third period, capping a three-goal rally by the Chiefs, who now move on to the double round-robin portion of the playoffs, meeting the winners of the Island and Interior divisions. After...