The Job Opportunities Program is investing $1.56 million in job creation for Prince George and Mackenzie , British Columbia. The Program targets job creation for pine beetle mitigation, hazard tree management, seed collection, and trail maintenance. 22 jobs will be created: Mackenzie 4D Warner Enterprises Ltd. - $595,352 for the maintenance of 21 recreation sites and trails District of Mackenzie -...
Tolko Forest Industries has scheduled two weeks of downtime for its central British Columbia operations over Christmas (December 18 - January 4). Other companies, including Canfor , have planned a similar schedule of downtime. Tolko said the curtailment is due to weak product prices, an oversupplied market and efforts to control costs. The scheduled shutdown will reduce lumber production by about...
Gallows has been added to Billy Talent's Canadian tour with Alexisonfire and Against Me!. 3/3 Victoria, BC @ Save On Foods Centre 3/5 Penticton, BC @ South Okanagan Events Centre 3/6 Kamloops, BC @ Interior Savings Centre 3/8 Prince George, BC @ CN Centre 3/9 Dawson Creek, BC @ EnCana Events Centre 3/11 Red Deer, AB @ Enmax Centrium 3/12 Medicine Hat, AB @ Medicine Hat Arena 3/13 Lethbridge, AB @ Enmax...
by Keith Borkowsky , The Curling Guy As promised, here's a look at the women's pre-trials, which open today at Prince George, B.C. Like the men's draw, four teams will advance to the Roar of the Rings in Edmonton. 1. Kelly Scott, Kelowna, B.C. (25-9 in 2009-10 World Curling Tour games) Scott, with third Jeanna Schraeder, second Sasha Carter and lead Jacquie Armstrong, recovered from a dismal 2008-09...
by Keith Borkowsky , The Curling Guy There's plenty on the line this week in Prince George, B.C., where 24 of the top Canadian teams battle to determine the four men's and four women's teams that advance to the Canadian Olympic Trials. So much, that there's rumours that some may retire if they don't advance. For those that may know (and you're forgiven), Canada has a multi-step qualifying process to...
West Fraser Timber has posted a loss of $198 million in its third quarter. A large portion of the loss is related to the closure of the Kitimat paper mill in British Columbia. West Fraser continues to operate sawmills in Smithers, Houston, Fraser Lake, Chetwynd, Quesnel and Williams Lake in north and central B.C. It also has two pulp mills, a plywood plant and a medium density fibreboard plant in...
You know what? There is so much to talk about that is making my blood boil that I did not even need to turn the furnace on this morning. So, without the usual chatty preamble, I’m going to start with the closure of 5 legal aid offices in B.C. That’s right, offices in Prince George, Surrey, Victoria, Kamloops and [...]
A coroner's inquest in Prince George, B.C. watched troubling video evidence of a drunken woman hanging herself in an RCMP cell, before hearing why nobody appeared to notice until it was to late.
A new company, Mackenzie Pulp Mill Development Corp. , has reached an agreement to take possession of the Worthington Mackenzie pulp mill for the next 6 months. Mackenzie Pulp Mill Development Corp. includes local investors from the Mackenzie, British Columbia area: Fort St. James-based K&D Logging , the McLeod Lake Indian Band-owned Duz Cho Logging , Vancouver Island-based Interior Fibre Management...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Silver Quest Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: SQI) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the results from an infill geochemical soil survey conducted during September on the Capoose-Silver Trend property. The property, located approximately 185 km west-southwest of Prince George, British Columbia, hosts three known zones of silver-gold mineralization...
AbitibiBowater has started up a shift at its planer mill in Mackenzie , British Columbia today. In addition, the company hopes to have one of its sawmills up and running in Mackenzie later this week. These two start-ups will put about 60 employees back to work. 10 contractors in the area will also benefit. Source: Shift starts at Mackenzie planer mill (Prince George Citizen) Check out the latest ForestTalk...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Silver Quest Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: SQI) (the "Company") is pleased to report that a 13 hole (1,692m) diamond drill program has been completed on the Capoose-Silver Trend project, located approximately 185 kilometres by road, west-southwest of Prince George, British Columbia (see www.silverquest.ca for property details and location).
Brian Fawcett was born in Prince George, B.C., Canada in 1944. He worked as a community organizer and urban planner in Greater Vancouver until 1985, and then taught in maximum security federal prisons for six years. He also had a short career as a professional hockey player, but now writes full time. He is a past editor of Books in Canada , a former columnist for the Globe & Mail , past chair of...
Twenty-four companies, representing 38 pulp and paper mills across Canada, have qualified for credits under the Government of Canada’s Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program . Company Name Credits Abitibi-Bowater - Fort Frances Mill (Fort Frances, ON) - Thunder Bay Mill (Thunder Bay, ON) $ 33,213,351 AlPac Forest Products Inc. - Alberta Pacific Forestries Mill (Boyle, AB) $ 62,869,884 AV...
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