I'm hoping whatever bottleneck is here gets worked out.
Big issue is there are three poll numbers at this location, but only one poll has the long wait. The others are just having people go in immediately.
I don't know if it's a slow table, or that many more people showing up
I'm glad people in other places don't have these wait times but the fact is that people ARE having to wait in excess of an hour to vote, and that ISN'T good
Y'all: I know you can vote by mail. I'm not looking for alternatives. I'm telling you that people have been waiting in excess of an hour to vote.
If you think long wait times are fine, then I don't know what to tell you. It's bad.
I should say... It's been 45 minute SO FAR. Still in line. Based on the count it will be close to 90 minutes
People running things here are great. But say there is a definite issue: Not enough worker to voter ratio
Seventy minutes
Apparently this is an issue at least two different locations in PG
Cariboo-Prince George debate up now. NDP, PPC, Conservative, Christian Heritage, Liberal and Green
Q1. Vaccinated Canadians can’t enter the U.S. What would you do about this?
Todd Doherty, CPC: The Liberals have mishandled this pandemic
Garth Frizzell, Liberals: We have a high vaccination rate, US is our friend, end is in sight
Jeremy Gustafson, PPC: We need to strengthen relationship with US and you can still fly there
Leigh Hunsinger-Chang, Green: U.S. is a great partner, and we don’t get to dictate what they do
Prince George Chamber hosting two riding debates tonight over Zoom. Up first is Prince George-Peace River- Northern Rockies. Liberal, Green, PPC, Conservative, NDP and Maverick parties taking part. Link here: business.pgchamber.bc.ca/events/details…
Q. Should we be in an election? Everyone but Liberal says no. Conservatives try to claim NDP were working with Liberals too much, NDP says Conservatives and Liberals are same
Q. Should we have vaccine mandates? NDP Cory Longly starts by calling out PPC candidate Ryan Dyck for being at a protest in Fort St John today. Liberal candidate says yes, a soft mandate needed. PPC Ryan Dyck says he is encouraging people to protest but not at hospitals and…
Ok I'm to post a list of answers to frequent responses I've gotten to talking about the long (hour+) wait time experienced at some voting stations in Prince George simply so I can direct people to it. Thread follows... cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
1. This was not just a matter of timing. It happened over the course of multiple days. I confirmed this with multiple voters, poll workers and my own two eyes and ears — people were continuously waiting more than an hour and on more than one day
2. The fact that you went to some other voting station and did not experience a long wait time does not negate the fact that people at these stations DID. They do not have the option of going to alternate voting stations
Prince George School Board leadership resigns following report into systemic racism: "I can no longer be part of the Board of Education or a system that this report has shown to be racist, a culture of fear, and broken." cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
"As a First Nations Leader, I can say that my voice was not meant to be at the table," says Trent Derrick, a member of the Gitxsan Nation who resigned as board chair. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
Also resigning is vice-chair Shuirose Valimohamed.
"The system is not built for minority voices in elected positions or leadership. It is built on holding the white supremacy ideology. The Special Advisors Report shows that."
I'll be honest, 9/11 didn't have a profound impact on me when it happened. Our school didn't send people home or bring tvs into classrooms. I remember finding out because people were talking about it but it wasn't immediately an obviously life-changing moment.
For me, the way 9/11 changed my life was a much slower process: It provided a window for mainstreaming hatred of other parts of the world, and the justification of war.
Reading this yesterday it came back to me just how normal these sentiments were in the months and years that followed. And at the time I was leaving high school and headed into a poli sci degree as "fuck 'em, nuke 'em" attitude was coming into vogue