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Friday, June 29, 2018

A revolution looks different on the streets you once walked

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My latest Tyee column People are dying on the streets I walked to work in Managua just two years ago. Masaya, a smaller town about an h...
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Monday, March 19, 2018

My Tyee column: Why the new health tax makes sense

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Winners are always champions of the status quo.  Like Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson. He was asked whether it was fair that employers ...
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Monday, February 26, 2018

My Tyee column: How the Chinese government took control of BC seniors’ homes

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Great. The lives of seniors in B.C. care homes, where they are already over-drugged and under-supported, now depend in part on the Chinese ...
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Thursday, February 22, 2018

NDP wins with bold BC budget

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Give Finance Minister Carole James full marks for a bold budget approach and the skill to sell it. The new government was in a tough s...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Carole James’s Big Budget Problem

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(Belatedly posting my recent Tyee column.) Finance Minister Carole James put a good spin on this week’s quarterly update on the provi...
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Friday, December 08, 2017

Why I'd kill Site C

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I have no idea what the government will do about Site C. (I do know that anyone who claims it’s an easy choice to kill the project or go a...
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Friday, September 29, 2017

Sadly, not the weirdest moment in my newspaper career (Spoiler alert: Charges were stayed)

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Newspaper pleads not guilty RED DEER, Alta. (CP) — The Red Deer Advocate has pleaded not guilty to incitement to commit a criminal offen...
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Friday, September 01, 2017

Six Things to Know about the BC Liberal Leadership Race

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Here are six things you need to know about the race to replace Christy Clark, based on the rules the BC Liberal Party released Tuesday. ...
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Friday, August 04, 2017

Where are those Public Accounts? Delay should worry Liberals

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The Liberals should be getting nervous about the long delay in releasing the Public Accounts and the Auditor General's review of governm...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Postmedia hits the wall

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Last week's quarterly report from Postmedia was predictably grim. Canada's largest newspaper company reported revenues had fallen ...
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Friday, April 07, 2017

Which Christy Clark response on the health firings is to be believed?

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“I did ask a lot of questions at the time. The assurances that we all received was that these were absolutely justified and the right thing ...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Is Vancouver the Jalisco Cartel's 'drug portal to the Pacific'?

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Vancouver is making its mark as a major export centre in at least one area — international drug trafficking. ‘Drug Portal to the Pacifi...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Donald Trump's stupid wall and Central America

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There is no wall tall enough. Even if you can leave aside the racism and the attempt to exploit and worsen fears and prejudices, Donald ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

An unlikely buyer's arsenal of restricted weapons, and their journey to criminals' hands

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My piece from The Tyee Canada is supposed to have tough gun laws. So how did a struggling Courtenay man with affiliations to organized ...
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