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Quesnel rancher Paul Nichols kicked off a cross-Canada horseback ride Monday to introduce a new generation of veterans to the public and seek their support. Nichols, who served with Canadian troops during ethnic warfare in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, struggled to control his emotions at a ceremony at the B.C. legislature. “Our Canadian troops do a hard job for us, and when they choose to transition back into civilian life, some of them struggle and lose their way,”...

Prince George Airport Authority was notified that Carson Air Flight 66 departing from Vancouver International Airport at 06:43 this morning for Prince George Airport (YXS) has lost contact with Nav Canada’s Kamloops Flight Information Centre. Carson Air Flight 66 is a cargo flight using a Metro II aircraft with two pilots on board. The airport authority is working with its partner agencies including rescue coordination centre who are currently responding. Operations at the Prince George...

Editor: The bill, tagged for “anti-terrorism”, would potentially allow for a secret police to be formed with CSIS. You know who else had a secret police and absolute power? Hitler. Should we let Mr. Harper become the next Hitler, in this day and age? Canada already has laws to prosecute and prevent terrorism, and they worked in all but one isolated instance. Some of the wording allows for collection of everyone’s private information, and having it shared between no fewer than 17 government...

Paul Strickland Special to the Free Press The globalized economy wants and requires a large, growing pool of part-time and temporary workers with few career prospects, says Guy Standing, professor of development studies at the University of London. “Labour instability is central to global capitalism,” he says in his latest book, A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (London, 2014). “Multinational capital not only wants flexible insecure labour but can also obtain it from any part...

Editor: Please continue to speak out against this egregious pseudo-Patriot Act. I don’t personally read the local newspapers, but your audience is just as important to reach with this news as any other. Dick Harris needs to know how we feel about this, if he doesn’t already. Please cover, or enhance coverage, of C-51, explaining its legal oversteps in layman terms. I encourage Canadians to learn more about how we can work together to stop secret police Bill C-51 at: StopC51.ca Ben...

Monica Lamb-Yorski Williams Lake Tribune The newly-formed Opposition Standing Committee for Agriculture made a stop in Williams Lake Thursday to hear from the region’s ranchers and farmers. “We heard 12 presentations,” said MLA Lana Popham who chairs the committee comprised of New Democratic MLAs Robin Austin, Raj Chouchan, Katrine Conroy, Nicholas Simons and Independent MLA Vicky Huntington. “One of the main concerns we heard was around meat regulations and how difficult it is for farmers...

Last week we were critical of Cariboo-Prince George Conservative candidate Todd Doherty for attending meetings that should be for elected officials only. And we stand by those comments. However, it shouldn’t have only been the Prince George Free Press that pointed the finger at Doherty and said “that is wrong.” Where are the New Democrats and the Liberals? Give Doherty and the Conservatives credit for understanding that they need to have a candidate in place long before the writ is dropped...

VICTORIA – The B.C. Treaty Commission and its federal and provincial financiers put on a brave show last week, celebrating a “milestone” in negotiations for a modern treaty with five Vancouver Island First Nations. A regional group representing the Songhees, Beecher Bay, T’Souke, Malahat and Snaw-Naw-As (Nanoose) First Nations have reached the “agreement in principle” stage of negotiations with Canada and B.C., after 20 years of treaty talks. This is similar to the treaty finalized in 2007...