Editorials

Raffles Inn, at the Five Corners in Prince Rupert, is getting an overhaul after the new owners took it over. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)

In Our Opinion: A spring clean for Prince Rupert

Numerous renovations, new businesses, development at the port, the outlook for 2019 is promising

  • Apr 4, 2019
Raffles Inn, at the Five Corners in Prince Rupert, is getting an overhaul after the new owners took it over. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)
Premier John Horgan at #BCTECHSummit 2018. (flickr/Province of British Columbia)

In Our Opinion: Horgan trying to do what Christy Clark couldn’t get done

B.C.’s NDP government promises tax breaks for LNG Canada

  • Mar 28, 2019
Premier John Horgan at #BCTECHSummit 2018. (flickr/Province of British Columbia)
The boil water advisory has ended in Prince Rupert. (Black Press file photo)

In Our Opinion: Down the drain

City of Prince Rupert announces its three-month water advisory was due to false positives

  • Mar 21, 2019
The boil water advisory has ended in Prince Rupert. (Black Press file photo)
Confusion in Prince Rupert over moving the dead from residential homes to the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital where the morgue is based. (The Northern View photo)

In Our Opinion: Body removal debacle

The shocking lack of communication over transferring the dead in Prince Rupert

  • Mar 14, 2019
Confusion in Prince Rupert over moving the dead from residential homes to the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital where the morgue is based. (The Northern View photo)
Hope next MP follows Nathan Cullen’s example

Hope next MP follows Nathan Cullen’s example

Christian advocacy group ARPA’s director says Cullen always had time for people he disagreed with.

  • Mar 13, 2019
Hope next MP follows Nathan Cullen’s example
Matthew Allen is one of three finalists for the TD Business Writing Award for his three-part Death of Retail series. (Matthew Allen / Northern View photo)

In Our Opinion: Congratulations to Lough and Allen

Northern View lands three Ma Murray community newspaper award nominations

  • Mar 7, 2019
Matthew Allen is one of three finalists for the TD Business Writing Award for his three-part Death of Retail series. (Matthew Allen / Northern View photo)
(Photo: Flickr)

In Our Opinion: How to pay yourself

Prince Rupert mayor and council navigate the awkwardness of upping their pay after an extended freeze

  • Feb 28, 2019
(Photo: Flickr)
Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen (Black Press file photo)

In Our Opinion: Go get ‘em Nathan

They need to change the name of the capital of Canada. Anyone…

  • Feb 23, 2019
Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen (Black Press file photo)
At the opening ceremonies for the 60th All Native Basketball Tournament, teams wore Wet’suwet’en Strong T-shirts and carried banners to support the anti-pipeline protest. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)

All Native Tournament Committee should include anti-protest regulation for next year’s games

In Our Opinion: Rules needed for political demonstrations

  • Feb 14, 2019
At the opening ceremonies for the 60th All Native Basketball Tournament, teams wore Wet’suwet’en Strong T-shirts and carried banners to support the anti-pipeline protest. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)
Archived photo of a previous All Native Basketball Tournament. This year, the tournament is celebrating 60 years. (ANBT Committee provided photo)

In Our Opinion: Let the 60th games begin

All Native Basketball Tournament hype in Prince Rupert

  • Feb 7, 2019
Archived photo of a previous All Native Basketball Tournament. This year, the tournament is celebrating 60 years. (ANBT Committee provided photo)
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EDITORIAL: Stop wasting money, just get us something to drink

External reviews take time and money, what Prince Rupert needs is outside funding for infrastructure

  • Jan 31, 2019
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Unsocial media causes tensions over Prince Rupert’s boil water notice. (Pixabay photo)

In Our Opinion: Pot calling the kettle black

Un-social media has lead to rising tensions in the City of Prince Rupert over the boil water notice

  • Jan 24, 2019
Unsocial media causes tensions over Prince Rupert’s boil water notice. (Pixabay photo)
An anti-pipeline protest was held in Prince Rupert on Jan. 8, coorindated with protests happening across the country in support of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation people opposing the Coastal GasLink pipeline. (Matthew Allen / The Northern View)

In Our Opinion: Pipelines, protests and silent LNG supporters

Canada’s government continues to see fossil fuel projects slip away

  • Jan 17, 2019
An anti-pipeline protest was held in Prince Rupert on Jan. 8, coorindated with protests happening across the country in support of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation people opposing the Coastal GasLink pipeline. (Matthew Allen / The Northern View)
Grocery stores in Prince Rupert were sold out of bottled water by noon on Sunday, Dec. 16. Safeway put in an emergency order in for more water after Prince Rupert was issued a boil water advisory. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)

In Our Opinion: An island in need of water

Prince Rupert residents have been without water for nearly a month, where is the federal government?

  • Jan 10, 2019
Grocery stores in Prince Rupert were sold out of bottled water by noon on Sunday, Dec. 16. Safeway put in an emergency order in for more water after Prince Rupert was issued a boil water advisory. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)
(Black Press file photo)

In Our Opinion: Newsmakers for 2018

A reflection on the top news stories from Prince Rupert, B.C.

  • Jan 3, 2019
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Prince Rupert was issued a boil water notice on Dec. 14. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)

In Our Opinion: All we want for Christmas is some clean water

Comment on the boil water notice in Prince Rupert

  • Dec 20, 2018
Prince Rupert was issued a boil water notice on Dec. 14. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)
Charles Hays Secondary School musical “9 to 5” was a fitting choice for this year’s play and joining the ongoing MeToo movement dialogue. (Northern View photo)

In Our Opinion: Times, they are a-changin’

Legal weed, legalized doctor assisted dying and the MeToo movement have shifted the social paradigm

  • Dec 13, 2018
Charles Hays Secondary School musical “9 to 5” was a fitting choice for this year’s play and joining the ongoing MeToo movement dialogue. (Northern View photo)
A commercial fishing boat cruising in the Inside Passage along B.C.’s North Coast. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)

In Our Opinion: Rescuing the needle in a haystack

Safety measures should be implemented across Canada’s coasts to prevent fishing industry deaths

  • Dec 6, 2018
A commercial fishing boat cruising in the Inside Passage along B.C.’s North Coast. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)
B.C. legislature Speaker Darryl Plecas suggested his friend and assistant Alan Mullen be appointed as an interim replacement the night before the abrupt suspension of its two top administrative officers, B.C. Liberal house leader Mary Polak said Thursday. (Tom Fletcher/Black Press)

In Our Opinion: the Speaker shouldn’t be an MLA

Why we should re-evaluate the speaker’s position after the latest B.C. legislature scandal

  • Nov 29, 2018
B.C. legislature Speaker Darryl Plecas suggested his friend and assistant Alan Mullen be appointed as an interim replacement the night before the abrupt suspension of its two top administrative officers, B.C. Liberal house leader Mary Polak said Thursday. (Tom Fletcher/Black Press)
Four of the cherry trees in Prince Rupert received grafts in April and have a high chance of survival after being carved up in March. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)

In Our Opinion: From lemons to lemonade

How a mistake turned into a memory for a Japanese family and Prince Rupert residents

  • Nov 22, 2018
Four of the cherry trees in Prince Rupert received grafts in April and have a high chance of survival after being carved up in March. (Shannon Lough / The Northern View)