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  In its current form, the B.C. Treaty Commission would need a century to settle all the aboriginal land claims that are before it, Premier Christy Clark said Wednesday. Taking questions for the first time about the sudden cancellation of former cabinet minister George Abbott’s appointment to lead the commission, Clark said she doesn’t know yet if the organization will continue. She emphasized that having only 50 out of 200 B.C. First Nations involved, and painfully slow...

A man accused of sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl with cerebral palsy in 1974 in Prince George will be in court here March 27, thanks to work by police departments in Canada and the U.S. Raymond Douglas MacLeod was turned over to Canadian authorities in Vancouver, late Tuesday culminating a nearly two-year legal effort by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to gain his deportation. In September 1974, MacLeod, then 32 years old, was arrested in connection with the...

WorkSafeBC investigators declined an offer, in the fall of 2012, to view forensic investigative materials regarding the Lakeland Mills explosion collected by CASE Forensic, a coroner’s inquest heard Wednesday. That revelation, and the fact the material from that investigation conducted by Lakeland Mills’ lawyers, was not provided to the inquest at the outset, prompted Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe to adjourn the inquest, now into its fourth week. “I’m significantly disappointed,” she said...

Several people have been at the coroner’s inquest into the deaths of Glenn Roche and Alan Little every day since it began. Included in those who have sat in the gallery every day are Ronda Roche, Glenn Roche’s widow, and Greg Stewart, CEO of the Sinclar Group, Lakeland Mills parent company. Ronda Roche testified on the first day of the inquest and Stewart was the last on the stand before it adjourned Wednesday. “This incident was awful for all of us. This has been a very, very tough event...

Students from the University of Northern B.C. want to know what impacts people feel the 2015 Canada Winter Games had on Prince George. A political science class is conducting a survey this week at a number of locations around the city. “It should only take about five minutes,” project lead Grant Bachand says. “We’d like you to do the survey here, because it allows us to manage the survey better by keeping track of the survey.” The survey was scheduled to be...