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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

What's wrong with New Democrats?

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I almost choked on my coffee when I read that Dale Lovick was calling for Carole James to be dumped as NDP leader. What is wrong with this ...
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Come on, folks, let's drink and drive more: Coleman

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The weirdness of things in this province continue to amaze. Solicitor General Rich Coleman — in charge of public safety and increasing alcoh...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Campbell's $2 billion doomed bet on keeping his job (with your money)

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I thought the budget consultation process hit bottom in 2004. But Gordon Campbell took things to a new low with his TV announcement of an ar...
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Campbell dragging party down with him

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Gordon Campbell's decision to stick around as a lame duck party leader is terrible news for the Liberals. Campbell took questions from r...
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Monday, November 08, 2010

The leadership race begins...

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B.C.'s solicitor-general mulls changes to tough drinking and driving laws BY JONATHAN FOWLIE, VANCOUVER SUN VICTORIA - Solicitor-genera...
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

The Liberal leadership campaign rules

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Leadership campaign rules and their application can help or hurt candidates. The Liberal constitution - supplied helpfully by Sean Holman of...
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Resignation brings a new set of problems

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Gordon Campbell's resignation was inevitable. He lost the confidence of British Columbians and, finally, of at least some within the Lib...
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Tough to see economic case for tax cut

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Gordon Campbell's TV speech bombed, according to the one public poll done in its aftermath. Even the 15 per cent income tax cut wasn...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010

About those tankers.....

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" Drunken captain of ship seized in Strait gets short prison term By Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News TACOMA -- Skippering a 590-foot ...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

If Campbell's Grade 4 pledge is serious...

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If Premier Gordon Campbell is serious about his TV pledge to have every Grade 4 student meeting expectations for reading, writing and numer...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Assembly of First Nations rejects Oppal inquiry

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Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, and Grand Chief Doug Kelly, chairman of the First Nations Health Cou...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

A terrible TV night for Campbell

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That was a dismal effort on TV by Premier Gordon Campbell. Especially for an address that was crucial to rebuilding Liberal support and slow...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Meet the new cabinet, much like the old cabinet

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Cabinet shuffles are mostly political. It's not about the ministers or the government structure. It's the equivalent of designing a ...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

A resource perspective on the cabinet shuffle

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I'll do a column on the changes announced by the premier, but there's some interesting initial reaction here . Bernard Von Schulmann...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Changing story on B.C. Rail plea deal

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The government now says David Loukidelis, deputy in the Attorney General's Ministry, and Graham Whitmarsh, finance deputy made the decis...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Things get worse in the B.C. Rail scandal

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The Times Colonist reports that defence lawyers for Dave Basi and Bob Virk negotiated the forgiveness of $6 million in legal fees with depu...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Trial ends, B.C. Rail scandal smell lingers on

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The B.C. Rail scandal has cost taxpayers some thing above $15 million. And without more answers, that looks like a very poor bargain. The tr...
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Friday, October 15, 2010

With B.C.'s 20,000 grow ops, the pot war is lost

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B.C. Hydro is getting ready to tell the utilities commission that it's losing $100 million worth of stolen electricity to grow ops every...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

B.C. Hydro stats support legal, regulated maraijuana

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The Baltimore Sun has noticed B.C. Hydro's estimated that $100 million worth of electricity is being stolen each year for grow ops. Repo...
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Useful update on the BC Rail corruption trial

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Ian Reid was in court and has an interesting post on the reasons for yet another delay in the trial at his blog The Real Story. "Outsid...
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