Friday, February 04, 2011

Cat for Christy no laughing matter

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This is odd. First, a cat belonging to a Christy Clark campaign worker joins the Liberal party. The worker, when contacted by Justine Hunter...
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Dix plan for corporate tax cuts should spark needed debate

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Liberal Kevin Falcon has set himself up as the business leadership candidate. Now New Democrat hopeful Adrian Dix has claimed the opposite s...
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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Is the Liberal caucus chair sniping at Kevin Falcon?

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The government caucus sent out a press release attacking recall efforts today that was hardly a favour to the Kevin Falcon leadership campai...
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Two decades of failure on at-risk children, families

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Note: Please read the specific examples in the posts below after reading this. Or, if pressed for time, just read them. It’s now been 20 yea...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Judge for yourself if infants protected and families supported

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I've been posting case examples from the Representative for Children and Youth report Fragile Lives, Fragmented Systems . Here are numbe...
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

You decide if children are protected

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I've been posting case examples from the Representative for Children and Youth report Fragile Lives, Fragmented Systems . Here's num...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

Another child's short life

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I've been posting case examples from the Representative for Children and Youth report Fragile Lives, Fragmented Systems . Here's num...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Another child whose life we wrote off

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"The Ministry of Children and Family Development missed opportunities to learn from its mistakes by failing to review a number of infan...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Behind the statistics on children we failed

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There is a useful editorial on the Representative for Children and Youth report on the death of 21 children involved with Ministry of Childr...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

Heed's 'star candidate' status looking dim

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You could make a pretty good movie based on Kash Heed's disastrous political career. A cautionary tale about ambition, the perils of mod...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

On Kash Heed and the RCMP contract

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Two useful editorials in the Times Colonist today. Heed's tainted election "Liberal MLA Kash Heed is trying to escape the consequen...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

How serious is campaign spending oversight?

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The Kash Heed affair is covered well elsewhere. But a review of his affidavit material suggests a casual/sloppy attention to financial repor...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

FSA tests far too useful to boycott or kill

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It's important to know how we're preparing our children for the challenges ahead. And it's stunning, even tragic, that the teach...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Christy Clark's baffling campaign

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A couple of items last week raised questions about Christy Clark's campaign positions. Over at closer-look.blogspot.com , Jody Paterson ...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

New Democrats off to disastrously self-destructive start

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The New Democrats’ stumbling start to the leadership race should leave loyalists in despair and raise questions - again - about the sense in...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Why MLAs don't get more respect

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People should admire politicians, be proud of them. They should have the support of their fellow citizens, who selected them in an election ...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

'Melding news with drama, politics with theatre'

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The Globe had an interesting weekend piece on " Five reasons why gun control has been disarmed " on the weekend. Anyone intereste...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Leadership races both entering important phase

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The Liberal and NDP races are both finally under way, but much of the work right now is behind the scenes, as candidates scramble to sign up...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Casino money laundering suspicious cases soar

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Criminals love casinos. They're great places for loan sharking and passing counterfeit money. And even more important for the serious cr...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

A lot more oversight for fish farm industry

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The Times Colonist has an interesting editorial looking at the shift of most responsibilities for the fish-farm infustry from the provincial...