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Most people feel that the 2015 Canada Winter Games was a good investment for Prince George, according to a survey conducted by a UNBC political science class. According to the survey, 51 per cent of respondents agreed, or strongly agreed, with the statement that the games were a good investment. Twenty-two per cent were either neutral or not sure while disagreed or strongly disagreed. “It had a very positive impact on the City of Prince George,” said Grant Bachand of the class. The class...

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...

Last Saturday, Evan Bichon was at Tabor Mountain, winning gold for Team BC in the snowboard cross event at the Canada Winter Games. Today, he’s on his way to China for the Junior World Championships. And that’s just the latest stop on a whirlwind tour of ski hills. “I was in Quebec for a week for a couple of races,” the 16-year-old Prince George racer says, “then I was in Colorado for a week, then up to Big White (near Kelowna), then back to Prince George for the Winter Games.” Bichon went...

It was Lyn Hall who got him. Anthony Everett went off script and admitted it was going to be hard enough for him to get through his own comments to wind up the 2015 Canada Winter Games. But when Mayor Hall singled out Everett, chairman of the Games, and CEO Stu Ballantyne for praise, it was hard for Everett to keep his emotions in check. “I have one mission this morning, and that’s to recognize two gentlemen who made this absolutely possible,” Hall said at the closing press conference for...

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Jeff Hnatiuk knows the clock will soon be ticking for Winnipeg. “I’ve sat on the Canada Games Council as the future, future rep,” the CEO of the 2017 Canada Summer Games says. “I’ve sat at meetings for Sherbrooke in 2013 and Prince George this year. “When the Canada Games flag is passed to our mayor on Sunday, it’s showtime for us.” This will be the third time for the Games in Manitoba, but the first time in Winnipeg. Brandon hosted the Winter Games in 1979 and the Summer Games in 1997....

  The final four became two after Friday’s men’s hockey semifinal action at the CN Centre. Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and Manitoba were all looking to book their ticket into Sunday’s gold medal game. Ontario 5-Quebec 2 It was a fast start between Ontario and Quebec but it was scoreless through the first 10 minutes. Quebec opened the scoring on a goal from Joseph Veleno when his snapshot from the top of the circle beat Michael DiPietro (the first goal he’d given up in the tournament) and...