Friday, February 10, 2006

BCGEU strike vote should push both sides to look for deal

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VICTORIA - Things have just got a lot more intense in public sector contract talks. The BCGEU's George Heyman walked into a press confer...
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Thursday, February 09, 2006

Children's ministry due for big changes

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Here's a news story I did today. Quite an extraordinary development. It is hard to see the benefit of leaving the ministry without a dep...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Great Bear deal shows B.C. adapting to a new world

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VICTORIA - Nine years ago it was called the Midcoast Timber Supply area, and the government's interest was in seeing it logged. Environm...
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Monday, February 06, 2006

Emerson, Harper deal democracy another blow 

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VICTORIA - Pragmatically, David Emerson's jump into Stephen Harper's cabinet is probably good news for B.C. But it still stinks. Thi...
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Friday, February 03, 2006

Knee, hip plan a step forward for health care

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VICTORIA - There’s much to praise in the government’s plans to reduce the wait for knee and hip surgery. The problem has been terrible. Ever...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Ready report delay ramps up risk of fall school strike

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VICTORIA - Some sort of teachers' strike this fall has just become more likely. Sorry to be negative. But Vince Ready's inability to...
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Monday, January 30, 2006

Thorpe should bail on bid to invade B.C. shoppers' privacy

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VICTORIA - Rick Thorpe's bid to make Costco to hand over the shopping records of thousands of British Columbians should be dead by the e...
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Friday, January 27, 2006

Few long-term beds, growing waits, especially for Interior, North

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VICTORIA - If you’re worried about about two-tier health care, take a look at the plight of seniors outside the Lower Mainland. The average ...
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Monday, January 23, 2006

Harper’s tough job gives B.C. an opening

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VICTORIA - Now the hard part starts for Stephen Harper. He’s starting an audition today. The Conservatives can’t rest comfortably on this v...
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Sunday, January 22, 2006

A B.C. election prediction

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My best guess is that the Conservatives will win 21 seats, the NDP 10 and the Liberals five in B.C. But there are so many close races - and ...
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Friday, January 20, 2006

The $1-billion union carrot creating some worries

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VICTORIA - The race is on for public sector unions hoping for a share of the $1 billion the government has set aside as an early signing bon...
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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Sad voters show need for proportional representation

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VICTORIA - The email arrived from a friend with a question about voting in this election. She wanted to make sure one particular candidate w...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Forget the Conservative surge: in B.C., the parties are right where they were in 2004 vote

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B.C. remains the stubborn exception to the Conservatives' big gain this election, a fact that doesn't seem to have been much reporte...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Watching on election night: early indicators, and seats that matter

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VICTORIA - Here's a handy guide to watching the election results roll across your TV screen Monday night, including a look at the most i...
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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Thanks, Liberals for discrediting sleazy attack ads

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VICTORIA - The Liberals deserve some credit for exploding an irritating myth about negative attack ads. Savvy political types smile smugly a...
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NDP picks up Southern Interior seat from Tories

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OK, that's a little premature. But Stephen Harper's reasonable decision to dump candidate Derek Zeisman should hand the riding to Ne...
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Beware the experts in the campaign's last days (Not me, of course, those other guys)

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VICTORIA - Most of the experts telling you what's going on in this election are likely no more astute than the average lab rat. That...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Skeena Liberal hopeful stomps out of all-candidates meeting over corruption charges

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From the always interesting Smithers Interior News, we learn one Liberal candidate has an unusual way of dealing with the corruption questio...
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Monday, January 09, 2006

Martin stumbles, and a Conservative government looms

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VICTORIA - Paul Martin was terrible in the leaders' debate Monday, and the question now is what that means for the last two weeks of thi...
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Friday, January 06, 2006

To solve the gun problem, overhaul our drug policy

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VICTORIA - The Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats are falling all over themselves to get tough on gun crime. And both parties are mis...
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