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City council has made it clear that fixing the rift between two competing farmer’s markets in Prince George isn’t its job. However, city staff and council are forcing the matter by demanding that two markets learn to work together by next year because it wants to designate Veterans Plaza as the only downtown location for farmer’s markets. “We have two groups that can’t get along for whatever reason,” Mayor Lyn Hall said Monday. “We can’t mediate that, so don’t ask us to.” The farmer’s...

Theatre North West’s upcoming season promises to be a first class act. At a season launch event on Saturday, Jack Grinhaus, TNW’s producing artistic director gave guests a glimpse into the new plays and also unveiled some new plans and programs. The season opens with a riotous and fast paced play Art by Yasmina Reza which runs Sept. 17 to Oct. 7. When Serge buys a completely white painting for $200,000 it infuriates his best friend Marc and confuses another friend Yvan. Hilarity...

It’s been a year since the Canada Health Accord expired. Motorists travelling along Bypass near 15th Avenue were reminded of during the noon hour on Wednesday as about two HEU and BCGEU members rallied during what they called the National Day of Action for Health Care. “(The accord) has been expired for one year,” said Natalie Fletcher of the HEU. “What that means to British Columbians is about $5 billion in cuts to funding. The $36 billion (in cuts over $10 years) across Canada would...

The dental programs and counselling services at the College of New Caledonia presented their numbers to the board of governors Friday. Now the decision is whether those numbers will trump the budget numbers the board is working on. Because of the amount of feedback received on proposals to suspend student intakes on dental programs and eliminate a number of counselling positions, the board decided not to make its decision at the Friday meeting, but to postpone the vote until the April 24...

Ben Meisner has been holding politicians to account for many, many years. And that has earned him respect from those same politicians and the community. On Monday night Mayor Lyn Hall extended the city’s well-wishes to Meisner, who fell ill while vacationing in Manitoba last week. “On behalf of council I want to extend our thoughts and our prayers to Ben and Elaine,” Hall said to open Monday night’s council meeting. “Ben’s wish is that he gets back to Prince George and that is our wish as...