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Money doesn’t always mean an electoral win. Many Prince George residents felt that when Shari Green spent more than $80,000 on her successful election campaign in 2011, that’s exactly what she did. However, it didn’t work for Don Zurowski. Documents released by Elections BC Monday reveal that Zurowski spent $72,249.29 on his campaign for mayor last fall. Lyn Hall, who won the election with 10,463 votes to Zurowski’s 8,850, spent $41,275 on his campaign. The largest contributor to Hall’s...

By Jeff Nagel Black Press The B.C. government intends to pull more money out of ICBC in the years ahead. The annual dividend from the public auto insurer – which goes into general government revenue despite repeated demands from critics for lower premiums instead – is estimated at $160 million a year in each of 2015, 2016 and 2017, according to budget documents. That’s an increase from estimates of $155 million for 2015 and $125 million for 2016 in last year’s budget. By the...

At age 16, Hannah Blatt is taking part in her third Canada Games. No, she didn’t start at age 8. Hannah was part of Team Manitoba’s squash team at Halifax for the 2011 Canada Winter Games, then played tennis at the 2013 Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke. “It’s not really tough switching sports,” she said Sunday afternoon as Team Manitoba practiced at the Northern Sport Centre. “They’re pretty similar.” She’s been playing tennis longer, and only started playing squash about four and a half...

Cole Dawe is in awe Sunday as he looks over a vast array of colourful Games pins on display and available for trading. The pin trading event took place at the Commonwealth Building and there were lots of eager collectors eyeing up pins for their collection. Dawe, who only started collecting last week, already has a few dozen marching down his scarf. The Heather Park student says he wants to collect even more. That’s how “Krassi” of Vancouver got interested in the hobby, he says. “I began...

During the second week of competition at the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George, the Cross Country Ski event will be witness to a very strong field of competitors. Twelve of Canada’s 18 representatives at the 2015 Junior/U23 World Ski Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan, earlier this month, will be in Prince George to participate. Six of 12 competed in the U23 age category and six competed in the junior category at the World Ski Championships. In addition, four of the Canadian...

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