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- Here's a livestream of wild caribou eating out near Bear Lake
Here's a livestream of wild caribou eating out near Bear Lake
Plus: This is a single family home town, buster
A few years ago, I was able to go on a trip north of town to report on an experiment to help restore woodland caribou populations by providing them with a stable source of food. This week I found out that’s still ongoing and, not only that, there’s a livestream:
It’s pretty easy to scroll through and see parts where an entire herd comes to eat up so that’s my recommendation for what to do instead of doomscrolling.
Here’s a story about how when the pandemic shut down the heli-skiing industry, it really helped caribou populations. We are the disease, etc.
The moose are about! I almost ran into one while walking yesterday.
I hope you survived yesterday’s snowstorm (this will not age well if it really comes down overnight):
The city has put together a “Winter Survival Guide for Noobs”:
It is also explaining that anti-icing material is not city crews icing the roads:
Winter is here!
This is a single family home town, buster
At My Prince George Now, Brendan Pawliw talks to the city’s supervisor of subdivision and building inspection Mandy Stanker about new provincial rules that essentially do away with neighbourhoods being zoned for single-family homes only. While Stanker says the development of fourplexes could help alleviate housing shortages and provide for in-fill, she’s not sure developers will be that interested:
“Typically though, I would have to say we are still focused on single-family houses and everybody loves their single-family house on a lot or in a strata. So, we do get a lot of applications focused on that.”
“We also allow secondary suites within certain types of single-family houses and we also allow cottage and carriage houses – kind of that mortgage helper piece where I own my single-family house, I have a secondary suite or I can have a little cottage house or carriage house, which is a suite above a garage.”
Simon Yu defends Knight’s Inn Purchase
Meanwhile in the Citizen, mayor Simon Yu says contrary to the haters the purchase of the Knight’s Inn for just over $4 million is a good long-term investment:
“It’s a piece of property we as a city need to have in order to develop the downtown core properly,” said Yu. “Right now, what it’s being used for temporarily is fine, but in the long term we can work this thing into a core design something more in line with arenas, symphony halls and conference centres as part of the development.”
Quick news:
Province doubling UNBC nurse practioner student intake in 2024.
'A soft spot in a tough town': Remembering pioneering poet Barry McKinnon.
B.C.’s softwood lumber production decline is EU exporters’ gain.
B.C. laws stacked to discard of homeless people's belongings, report shows.
Why it's critical for the mining sector to understand wildfire risk.
Today’s song — good luck to those of you vying for tickets:
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