Thursday, December 23, 2004

Making your life, and the world, a better place

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VICTORIA - It's the season to remember that a lot of what we're so busy worrying about doesn't really matter all that much. And...
Wednesday, December 22, 2004

BC Rail corruption charges raise doubts about whole deal

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VICTORIA - The charges alleging corruption in the BC Rail sale are very bad news for the Liberal government. The talk around the legislatur...
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Monday, December 20, 2004

Softwood ruling hammers B.C. - where's Ottawa?

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VICTORIA - Things are looking grim on the softwood front, and it's time for Canada to take the big risk of getting tough with the U.S. ...
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Teachers should welcome new plan to reach contracts

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VICTORIA - Teachers made a big mistake in immediately trashing a proposal for a new way of bargaining contracts. I don't blame them for...
Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Why Collins quit, and what comes next

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VICTORIA - So why did Gary Collins pack it in after less than one term in government, giving up the finance minister's job to run a fled...
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Monday, December 13, 2004

Communities need trust fund for pine beetle disaster

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VICTORIA - It's time to ditch all the politics and start coming up with a plan to rescue communities across B.C. from the coming pine be...

Poll shows dead heat, big woes for both parties

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VICTORIA - There's plenty in the most recent poll to scare the pants off strategists for both the New Democrats and the Liberals. With ...
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Nominations creating problems for NDP and Liberals

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VICTORIA - I bet the Liberals did a little dance when they heard Adrian Dix had won the NDP nomination in Vancouver-Kingsway. For Gordon Ca...
Monday, December 06, 2004

Economy good enough to be good news for Campbell

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VICTORIA - It was a lot of economic good news for the Liberals in one day. First StatsCan reported that B.C.'s unemployment rate had hi...
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Thursday, December 02, 2004

High school testing up to government, not union

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VICTORIA - You've got two different issues in the current spat between the B.C. government and the teachers' union over province-wid...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Government is a pimp for desperate women from other countries

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VICTORIA - Most Canadians would be dead ashamed to know that their government is playing pimp to desperate women from around the world. But...
Monday, November 29, 2004

Surplus good news, but puts Liberals to test

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VICTORIA - It should be unalloyed good news that the B.C. government is heading towards a $2.2 billion surplus this year. Instead, the pot ...
Friday, November 26, 2004

Public smoking ban a simple way to save lives, MLAs say

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VICTORIA - Pretty brave, those Liberal backbenchers on the health committee who took a stiff shot at their government's smoking policy. ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Autism ruling sound; now the province should pay up

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VICTORIA - OK, the province doesn't have to pay for treatment that could save autistic children from disastrous lives. But it should. ...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Offshore report weak, bad news for Liberal plans

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VICTORIA - That was a disappointing report from the Priddle panel on offshore oil and gas development. And it's going to pose a huge pr...
Thursday, November 18, 2004

Court First Nations' rulings set stage for progress

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VICTORIA - It's no cure-all, but the Supreme Court of Canada has just made a big contribution to ending some of the uncertainty about la...

MLAs' budget hearings a magical mystery tour

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VICTORIA - That was a weird report from the legislative committee that toured the province getting ideas for the coming budget. They were s...
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Monday, November 15, 2004

Martens' case shows need for right-to-die law

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VICTORIA - It strikes me as cruel and wrong that if I am sick and suffering, with no prospects of recovery, I can't take practical steps...
Thursday, November 11, 2004

Bipolar NDP candidates, that Liberal mailer and contracting out

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VICTORIA - Random notes from the front. Good news, bad news for NDP leader Carole James. The good news is the nomination of Gregor Rober...
Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Public health system walking into disaster

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VICTORIA - The threat to our public health care system isn't from private clinics, or contracting out. It's from within. The peopl...
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