Saturday, December 17, 2005

Harper and Layton fare best in debate round one

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VICTORIA - Not a bad leader's debate night in Vancouver, although I did feel a bit of a loser spending my Friday evening in front of the...
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Business joins call for energy heritage fund

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VICTORIA - I remember the bumper stickers in Alberta when oil prices fell in the early ‘80s, and the jobs went away. ‘Lord, give us another ...
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Thursday, December 15, 2005

What I said, and what Jane Morley said, on children's issues

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In a recent column for the Vancouver Sun I offered my thoughts on the failures of the Child and Youth Office set up to replace the Children...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Liberals flip-flop and admit child death failures

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VICTORIA - Now we're getting to the truth about child death reviews. The Liberals first denied there were any problems. Once that was cl...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

'Popcorn and beer' shot a reminder of Liberal contempt

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VICTORIA - I bet hundreds of candidates from all parties danced a little jig as Scott Reid swung in the wind after his ‘popcorn and beer’ co...
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Monday, December 12, 2005

Olympic costs a growing worry for taxpayers

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VICTORIA - It's time to get a little nervous about what the Olympics could cost you. Olympic organizing committee head John Furlong has ...
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Thursday, December 08, 2005

Hydro's energy plan and Site C slam into political doubts

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VICTORIA - The Liberals' pledge to keep politicians' hands off Crown corporations like BC Hydro is fading fast. BC Hydro's brigh...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

The facts say children at risk aren't being properly protected

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VICTORIA - Child protection is the tough front line for social workers. A teacher calls and reports a little girl is coming to school on sno...
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Monday, December 05, 2005

Harper's law-and-order drug talk the same failed approach

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VICTORIA - It's hard to take seriously any politician who calls for mandatory minimum sentences. That's what Stephen Harper did on h...
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Thursday, December 01, 2005

Why the federal campaign started off so dumb

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VICTORIA - Day one of the federal campaign, and already the love that dare not speak its name had made the headlines. Or loves, since as wel...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Taylor woos the unions with a tempting cash offer

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VICTORIA - Finance Minister Carole Taylor has made a useful stab at improving public sector bargaining, offering some $1.3 billion worth of ...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

B.C. needs federal parties to rise above the muck

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VICTORIA - Victoria-area Liberal MP Keith Martin summed up the election in a depressing way minutes after the government fell. Who do you di...
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Friday, November 25, 2005

Take a bow MLAs, the legislature is a better place

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VICTORIA - You can feel pretty good about the eight-week session of the legislature that just wrapped up. Not great. There were still some b...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Brandon died, and his mother deserves answers

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VICTORIA - One phone conversation with Dayna Humphrey demolishes all the government's evasions on child death reviews. Humphrey's so...
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Monday, November 21, 2005

Pay and pension plans die, and the public wins

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VICTORIA - The great raise and pension debacle should shake your faith in all 79 MLAs. The plan to sneak through a 15-per-cent raise - and a...
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Friday, November 18, 2005

Government failed 713 forgotten children

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VICTORIA - They sat in a Victoria warehouse for almost three years, partially completed reviews of the deaths of 713 children. Almost 50 chi...
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Thursday, November 17, 2005

MLAs' secretive pay grab an abuse of public

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VICTORIA - You have to wonder if the Liberals and NDP lost their collective mind in their rush to raise their salaries. In the morning the g...
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Opposition scores win for firefighters, despite Liberal qualms

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VICTORIA - It's a brave or foolhardy politician who gets into a fight with volunteer firefighters. So even though rushing to extend spe...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Liberals stumble again in child death reviews

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VICTORIA - John Les tied himself in knots Monday in a hopeless effort to minimize the government's bungling of child death reviews. The ...
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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Pine beetle tab heading towards $5 billion

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VICTORIA - The pine beetle damage numbers are leaping towards incomprehensibility. The B.C. government has been pitching a $1.5-billion prog...
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