Thursday, May 05, 2005

Debate helps James within the NDP too - but what happened to First Nations

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VICTORIA - Some footnotes from the debate, starting with another reason Carole James' strong performance is significant.. It was assume...
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

No big winner, but good night for James

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VICTORIA - Here's the debate in a three paragraphs. Gordon Campbell didn't do well, but he didn't do terribly, which is generall...
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Monday, May 02, 2005

Liberals show need to ban old-style fundraising

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VICTORIA - Yes, the scandal over the BC Liberals' fund-raising practices is real. Not in the way you might at first think, that the Camp...
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Friday, April 29, 2005

Poll should push NDP, Libs to change campaigns

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VICTORIA - If the political parties' polls are showing the same trends as the latest Ipsos-Reid survey, expect some changes in the final...
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Thursday, April 28, 2005

New children's ministry cuts an election issue

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VICTORIA - It's time to ask Liberal candidates how many more cuts are ahead for the ministry of children and families. Issues come and g...
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Monday, April 25, 2005

Wrapping up week one: Notes from the campaign trail

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VICTORIA - Campaign notebook: winners, losers and good questions from the first week. Another fascinating poll, which showed that British Co...
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Friday, April 22, 2005

Weak Martin bad news for Gordon Campbell

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VICTORIA - Poor old Paul Martin, reduced to asking us all to cut him some slack in an sad and uninspired TV sort-of address to the nation. A...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Campbell sets out on a carefully dull campaign

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VICTORIA - Get ready for an impressively boring campaign from Gordon Campbell and the Liberals. Campbell made the obligatory trip to Governm...
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Monday, April 18, 2005

Liberals in command, James has the upside potential

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VICTORIA - Here's the starting point. If the election campaign doesn't produce any surprises, or change anyone's mind, figure a ...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

James' platform aims to move NDP to middle

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VICTORIA - The NDP's platform launch got the party's campaign off to a pretty good start this week, despite one major goof. The broa...
Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Timing political, but Cariboo highway a good project

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VICTORIA - It's election time. Break out the highway construction equipment. Gordon Campbell's pre-election road show rolled into Pr...
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Liberals’ star candidates bring big changes

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VICTORIA - It’s tricky bringing star candidates like Wally Oppal and Carole Taylor into the Liberal ranks. Take one issue. All those new sta...
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Friday, April 08, 2005

Brault bombshell will reach into B.C.

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VICTORIA - We're jaded out here, accustomed to seeing Ottawa as some strange distant land, kind of like the Emerald City in Oz. There ar...
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Thursday, April 07, 2005

Waits still longer for most surgery, future still vague

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VICTORIA - I guess it's good news that the government has discovered that 11,000 of the 80,000 names on surgical waiting lists shouldn...
Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Liberals shovel money off their own campaign truck

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VICTORIA - Premier Gordon Campbell showed why he’s everybody’s favorite visitor this week, rolling into Kelowna for a 30-minute speech and s...
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Friday, April 01, 2005

B.C. wins Ottawa’s attention on beetles, tourism

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VICTORIA - Score two for the federal Liberals’ B.C. Dream Team, just as the Conservatives are looking like stronger rivals. Ottawa has come ...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Too little information on the way we treat kids in care

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VICTORIA - The Gove Inquiry, looking at the horrific death of a little boy who should have been saved, was clear. "Death and serious in...
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Monday, March 28, 2005

B.C. needs to plan for a non-white future

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VICTORIA - It's time to shed our Canadian politeness and talk a bit about how immigration and demography are changing our society. Stats...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

How do be sure you don’t end up like Terri Schiavo

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VICTORIA - I’ve never met Terri Schiavo, her husband or parents. She’s 41 now, and has been in what doctors call a persistent vegetative sta...
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Monday, March 21, 2005

Poll shows Liberals won battle for the middle

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VICTORIA - Things are looking brighter for the Liberals. The latest Ipsos poll found the BC Liberals have opened up a significant lead on th...
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