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Friday, February 19, 2010

Watch out – an army of greedy geezers is coming

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Are you going to have enough money when you retire? If you’re too young to worry about that, are you prepared to start paying big taxes to...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Good care, cheap care and secret decision-making

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It seems a simple choice. If you have an abdominal aneurysm - a bulge and weak spot in an artery - there are two treatment options. Do...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Liberals drifting away from concerns of British Columbians

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I figured out why the throne speech worked so badly. It wasn't enough like a magazine cover. Magazine editors know you have to grab ...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Not a whole lot for you in this throne speech

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The throne speech, written by the premier's office and read by the lieutenant governor in the legislature, is supposed to set out the ...
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Friday, February 05, 2010

Children's ministry shunning recommendations to help kids

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The ministry of children and families is a competency test for government. The Liberals, like the NDP before them, are failing. They bun...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Once more, the Danes provoke us

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We are, once again, on the brink of conflict with the Danes, this time over shrimp . It does seem a little odd that a country that destroyed...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Tough decisions on rationing health care

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A Vancouver Province news story last month indirectly raised one of those health care issues no one wants to talk about. Cutbacks would ...
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Monday, February 01, 2010

B.C. Lotteries woos mayor with free Games tickets

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Good Michael Smyth column in The Province on what's happening to some of the Games tickets purchased with public money - specifically by...
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Class-size ruling means more stress on schools

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This was already going to be a tough year for schools in B.C. School districts have been closing classrooms and cutting costs for years now...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

New York Daily News on the pot Olympics

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You knew it was coming.... Progressive laws in Vancouver make next month's Winter games the Pot Olympics BY NATHANIEL VINTON DAILY NEWS ...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Bureaucrats bungled privacy breach, review finds

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The first reviews into a major privacy breach last year paint a picture of government bumbling that's so bizarre it's literally had...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Your chance to take the influence of big money out of municipal politics (and maybe provincial politics)

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The writing is truly atrocious, but the municipal election task force has a consultation website up and anyone who cares about the politi...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

Good news: Johns are just normal guys

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"A new study out of Simon Fraser University concludes that people who buy sex are no more prone to violence than anyone else. Fewer tha...
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Olympic fever? More like a collective headache

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Until now, I've figured that once the Olympics started British Columbians would probably get caught up in the whole experience. All ...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Lots of words, little action on family violence

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The government's lame response to domestic violence this week offered two lessons. First, despite all the rhetoric about considering...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Why parents should support FSA tests

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The great FSA test battle is on again as the B.C. Teachers' Federation continues its campaign to kill the school tests. That would b...
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Jody Paterson: Seniors face huge care cost increases

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It isn't often that a landlord can quietly order up a 30 per cent rent increase for more than 2,000 people without anybody making a publ...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Giving to Haiti

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I might be overly sensitive, but while the $500,000 provincial contribution is useful, I'm not sure the Haitian earthquake is really a...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Seniors’ care recommendations snubbed by government

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I doubt that growing old has ever been much fun.  But the latest report on seniors’ care in B.C. — and the government’s reaction to it — sh...
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