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The Ladies are coming to Prince George to kick off a Canadian tour. The Barenaked Ladies, with special guest Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea, will start their Silverball tour at CN Centre on Oct. 19. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 1 at all Ticketmaster locations. The tour is in support of their new album, Silverball, which hits the street on June 2. A few days later, the Barenaked Ladies will start a tour of the United States, lasting until the end of July. They start the Canadian tour in...

Editor: We are writing this letter in regards to the impending abrupt closure of the Dental Studies Programs at the College of New Caledonia. We are strongly urging the President and the Board of Governors of CNC to reconsider the closure of the Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting programs. Both of these programs represent jewels in the dental education community and are involved in serving the entire Northern half of the province with well-trained dental professionals. Closure will create...

Editor: Please help us get the word out Bill C-51 must be stopped. If this bill is allowed to go through, within a few short years we will lose every freedom we currently enjoy. This bill will open the door to more drastic abuse from our government and the corporations that control them. In this day when a large percentage of Canadians have access to Internet, all people should have the right to vote on any and all bills, corporate contracts and any thing else that will effect the people of...

  Paul Strickland Special to the Free Press New trade agreements further contribute to the trend toward dissolving national boundaries and removing protections for Canada’s labour force. Corporations show no loyalty to the safe, stable country that helped them build up their holdings to the point that they could compete internationally. Despite some changes last year, negative impacts from the Temporary Foreign Worker Program continue. This is at a time of a 13-per-cent youth...

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Canadian music legend Ian Tyson will bring his songs and stories to Vanier Hall in Prince George on June 6. Tyson, who turned 81 last fall, is showing no signs of slowing down. Between his ranch in the foothills of the Rockies and his music, he finds ways to keep busy. In the past 10 years, he has released four albums, put out a two-disc concert video and filmed a music documentary for Bravo. Oh, and he also wrote his autobiography, The Long Trail: My Life in the West and did some touring....

Downtown Prince George was treated to some spontaneous entertainment this morning, but only for a few minutes. At approximately 10:15 a.m., 170 elementary and secondary students converged on the Prince George City Detachment to take part in a flash mob. A flash mob is a sudden large public gathering where people perform an unusual or seemingly random act and then disperse immediately afterward. In this case, the mob, joined by local RCMP officers, performed a choreographed dance to Taylor...