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Thursday, July 06, 2006

No way out of the bad softwood deal

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VICTORIA - The bad softwood deal is turning into a giant mess for the forest industry, Stephen Harper' and the Campbell government.. The...
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Monday, July 03, 2006

Bad softwood deal grim news for B.C.

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VICTORIA - The softwood deal that David Emerson and Stephen Harper are pushing is so bad it’s hard to imagine what they’re thinking. The U.S...
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Friday, June 30, 2006

NDP shuffle puts focus on health, community safety

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VICTORIA - Carole James was due to shuffle MLAs in and out of critics' jobs about now anyway. But her caucus shake-up will still be look...
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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Court case should mean end of class fees and charges

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VICTORIA - Education is supposed to be the great equalizer. All children are should get the same chance to make the most of their abilities....
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Monday, June 26, 2006

Health resignation a challenge to Campbell

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VICTORIA - When the government's top health care manager quits in protest over Premier Gordon Campbell's "unsound" plans f...
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Friday, June 23, 2006

Poll shows Liberals sitting pretty across B.C.

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VICTORIA - It was pretty a good week for Gordon Campbell. An Ipsos-Reid poll reported strong support for both the Liberals and Campbell’s le...
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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Chopping support for at 19 makes no sense

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VICTORIA - Everybody knew something bad could happen if Neil Fahlman was cut loose with no support when he turned 19. Even the government’s ...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Cellphones, seatbelts and saving young drivers' lives

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VICTORIA - What's wrong with saying to people in their first two years of driving that they shouldn't talk on a cellphone while they...
Thursday, June 15, 2006

BC Ferries safety questions demand government answers

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VICTORIA - It’s been a choppy patch for BC Ferries. Fares have soared. The Queen of Oak Bay crushed a flotilla of boats last year in Horsesh...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Ken Thomson, Charles Bronson and me

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VICTORIA - Mostly what I thought when I heard that Ken Thomson had died was that now I could only claim personal acquaintance with two billi...
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Spending on substance abuse just makes sense

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VICTORIA - Somebody tried to break into my car this spring, hammering a screwdriver into the lock and then tugging enthusiastically on the f...
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Thursday, June 08, 2006

Liberal leadership hopefuls hit money hurdles

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VICTORIA - Just when the Harper government was looking a little rattled, along comes Joe Volpe to remind voters what they don't like abo...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Secrecy surrounds huge taxpayer gift to forest company

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VICTORIA - It’s not as if Weyerhaeuser made any sort of case for a $200-million gift from B.C. taxpayers. But the Liberal government gave th...
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Monday, June 05, 2006

Liberal MLAs put financial watchdog on a chain

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VICTORIA - A handful of Liberal MLAs have betrayed the public over the appointment of a new auditor general. The auditor general is one of s...
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Friday, June 02, 2006

Teaching respect for gays, others moral and practical

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VICTORIA - It's no big thing that the government is going to have schools teach students about respect for gays and lesbians, says Attor...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Government leaps blindly, without a net, into private surgeries

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VICTORIA - There’s no reason to set your hair on fire about the principles behind the drive to shift hundreds of thousands of surgeries to p...
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Monday, May 29, 2006

Equalization’s easy and it matters, I swear

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VICTORIA  - After 14 years as Alberta premier, Ralph Klein still doesn’t have a clue about how equalization works. He's not alone. Despi...
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Thursday, May 25, 2006

B.C. laggard in regulating payday lenders

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VICTORIA - Everyone - even Solicitor General John Les - agrees the province should be regulating payday lenders to protect British Columbian...
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Monday, May 22, 2006

Liberals choose needless deaths over photo radar

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VICTORIA - The Liberal government is putting politics and ideology ahead of saving lives when it comes to photo radar. The NDP raised the is...
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Friday, May 19, 2006

Harper winning skirmishes, but risks losing public trust

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VICTORIA - The first spin was that Stephen Harper and the Conservatives had won political victories around big issues in the last week. But ...
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