Divided loyalties: Should Prince George be its own riding?

Read to the end for a new dinosaur

On the CBC website this morning, I have a story about the reasons and consequences for Prince George being divided down the middle, politically, into two separate ridings. It was inspired in part by the comments section of this newsletter where a few commenters expressed their belief that the city would be better off as its own riding. You’ll have to read the story for more but it did give me the opportunity to finally visualize the 2015 election results in which the city split with the surrounding ridings:

For full transparency, though, the city went back to voting Conservative in 2019 and 2021, it was not an ongoing thing.

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News roundup:

• The Exploration Place is on shaky financial footing.

• A petition started in November of last year calling for safety improvements to a hazardous section of Highway 16 known as "Jail Hill" has seen success.

• Public Safety Committee discusses promotion of citizen patrol programs.

• How Will the Parties Help BC Forest Workers?

• Shirley Bond to receive honourary degree from UNBC.

• What Happened in Vanderhoof After the Sawmill Closed.

• Afro-Caribbean Society of Northern BC President feels positive coming out of racism project’s first phase.

• Northern Health says resources, reduced stigma needed to combat toxic drug crisis.

• B.C. ministers urge residents to have go-bags, insurance before floods and wildfires.

• SD57 students compete in Battle of the Books.

• PG painter wins Canadian Duck Stamp competition..

• The epic journey of J.S. Bach comes to Prince George: CBC Music's Tom Allen coming to the Knox Performance Centre.

• New dinosaur just dropped.

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