Friday, March 20, 2009

Running a wire on the police

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The Times Colonist has been following an interesting case. Victoria police stopped a driver, in case, they said, his car was stolen. He was ...
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Nurses find way around coming wage freeze

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It looks like the B.C. Nurses Union has retired Solidarity Forever in favour of Take the Money and Run as a rallying song. The nurses' c...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Uranium a glowing problem for government

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The province's handling of uranium mining brings to mind Homer Simpson's approach to operating a nuclear power plant. And the stumbl...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Questions unanswered about BC Rail payments to Liberal insider

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Sure, a lot was happening in the Liberals' first term. But it's hard to see why a Crown corporation had to pay $297,000 to a Liberal...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Finance ministry records included faked B.C. Rail sale e-mails

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A few days ago, I posted e-mails from finance ministry files that indicated former New Democrat MLAs Paul Ramsey, Gordon Wilson, Helmut Ge...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Binder 5: E-mails fake says, ex-Liberal MLA

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Paul Nettleton also says the finance ministry e-mail files allegedly showing a campaign against the BC Rail are fakes. "Your recent blo...
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BC Rail paid firms of Liberal campaign co-chair for services

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The New Democrats asked about questions yersterday about $297,000 in payments from B.C. Rail to the consulting firms of Patrick Kinsella, th...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Binder 5: Paul Ramsey says he's never seen the e-mails referred to in the post below

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Former NDP cabinet minister Paul Ramsey says he's never seen, and certainly didn't write, any of the e-mails in Finance Ministry fil...
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Binder 5: New Democrats plot against the B.C. Rail sale, and the government gets the e-mails

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Note: See post above. Paul Ramsey says he's never seen and didn't write any of these e-mails. Which raises a whole lot of questions ...
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Sunday, March 08, 2009

Who is paying lawyers for Basi and Virk?

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The New Democrats have posted most of the 8,000-odd pages of material released to the defence in the B.C. Rail sale corruption case here . ...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

Time to become a reporter

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The New Democrats have posted most of the 8,000-odd pages of material released to the defence in the B.C. Rail sale corruption case here . ...
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Can the RCMP survive with its credibility gone?

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I covered court in Alberta for a little while. RCMP officers often testified. Sometimes, they were a little evasive or obviously coached. ...
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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Not all sex trade workers are on the street

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It's easy to fall into cliche and stereotype when it comes to sex workers. And false assumptions usually work to push many of them farth...
Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Heeding threats and playing nice with government not best course

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Today, a lesson for everyone who deals with government, courtesy of John Les and the rural stores that sell alcohol. The stores' owners ...
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Taxpayers supporting Liberal attack campaign

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Here's what the NDP transportation critic said about the Port Mann bridge project in question period yesterday. M. Karagianis: Well, the...
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Monday, March 02, 2009

Now you can be in the scrums

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The NDP has started mining the 8,000 pages of FOI material that defence lawyers in the B.C. Rail corruption trial obtained from the governme...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Falcon wrong; taxpayers will pay for Port Mann

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No to appear smug, but when the government announced a few weeks ago that the Port Mann bridge cost had doubled to $3.3 billion and that tax...
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Friday, February 27, 2009

Child care "system in crisis" starved in budget

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Let us begin with four realities. It's bad to be a kid in the government's care - in foster care or group homes. No matter how well ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Balancing the budget at the expense of kids in care

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The budget for child and family services is neffectively frozen in the budget, with token increases averaging less tahn 0ne-half per cent pe...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Bleak moments in the legislature

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A video from Hansard of so-called debate in the legislature that is worth viewing. The dispute came as Kevn Krueger, always a loyal foot s...
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