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HTMF: Prince Rupert's Website (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gordon Campbell's wishes to see the HST implemented in British Columbia could stand or fall on the whims of Michael Ignatieff and the Federal Liberal party and with it much of his financial planning of the last six months . The Federal Conservative government is about to turn the heat up on the opposition in Ottawa next week, that's when the Harper government introduces its framework legislation to...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell's Liberals are in an Olympic party mood after enduring an autumn session of bad news at the legislature.
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TUMEKE! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Goff accused of using race card Phil Goff has been accused of sparking racial divisions with an "Orewa-style" speech after he attacked National-Maori Party deals signalling the foreshore and seabed will again be a political football. Goff’s speech has had an interesting response. Tim Watkin over at Pundit fears race wars and blood in the street (I’m being factitious) over Goff’s...
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Laila Yuile (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Posted in bc politics, Blogroll, CKNW Talk SHow Idol, Credits, humour, Laila Yuile, Laila Yuile Photography Portfolio, politics Tagged: bc liberals, child poverty, gerry hummel, Gordon Campbell, Laila Yuile, mary polak, ministry of children and women, terrace daily online
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The government of British Columbia has continuously downplayed the costs of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games to the taxpayers of the province. They have emphasized the economic importance to the Games in face of any opposition to their spending. Indeed, the government has been careful to omit any indirect expenses arising from hosting of the Olympics, including transportation upgrades and highway improvements....
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Laila Yuile (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Thanks to Sean Holman and Public Eye Online for bringing us this video, starring the grand poo-bah Gordon Campbell and his guard…lady press secretary extolling the wonderful amazing fantastic progress the libs have made on child poverty in BC – which is the highest in the entire country. Although I think Sean owes me a new coffee after making me spit [...]
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its annual report on 'food insecurity' in America. What it showed is astounding. 49 million Americans...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Michael Ignatieff is fast becoming the Sir Galahad of Canadian politics, noted for fighting wrong-doers on the government side of the House of Commons with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of fair play. From the Omar Khadr affair to the detainees issue, the Liberal leader has taken the moral high ground and portrayed the Conservatives as unscrupulous. Unfortunately for him, the polls...
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Vive le Canada (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Pressure builds for a criminal investigation into the conduct of Gordon Campbell and associates involved with the (corrupt) sale of BC Rail to CN Rail in 2003-4. The only case to date arising from the "sale" involves three cabinet aides charged with 14 counts (variously) of fraud and breach of trust. Disclosure materials obtained by Defence counsel for the defence of the accused point more...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Two recent polls indicate the BC NDP has passed the provincial Liberals in support, after a slew of extremely unpopular decisions by the Gordon Campbell government. There was the $2.8 billion deficit which Mr. Campbell promised would be no more than $495 million just after the 2009 May election. Then came the unilateral implementation of the HST, which has proven to be very controversial as well....
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Laila Yuile (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
I was discussing campaign ideas with a dinner guest this weekend, ( never too early to start) and he suggested that I simply let the record speak for itself. ” How simple. How right! What a fantastic idea! ” I said and so here we are. For those of you who do not already know, I plan [...]
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The Gazetteer (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
There'sNoKool-Aid InOurBarCarVille Ya. That's right. We have a new member. And his name is BJ Chute. Mr. Chute is the B.C. Paramedics spokesperson and this is what he told Crawford Kilian of The Tyee about Mr. Chris Trumpy, the very fine fellow who has been appointed by Mr. Gordon Campbell to lead the industrial inquiry that will look into the 'dispute' between the B.C. Ambulance Service and the paramedics:...
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The Gazetteer (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
WeAreAllPharma NowVille In my opinion, and the opinion of many others much more knowledgable than myself, the 'Therapeutics Initiative' was a good thing for all British Columbians. A report from a group headed by a Gordon Campbell-appointed bureaucrat, a bureaucrat whose compensation was paid by all British Columbians, is being used as ammunition to gun the 'Therapeutics Initiative' down in the street....
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
B.C.'s auditor general says the government needs to keep a tighter rein on the rules surrounding salaries for Crown corporation executives, over half of whom are paid more than the salary cap set by the government of premier Gordon Campbell.
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
An article by Joel Connelly in the Seattle Post Intelligencer indicates that because of a lack of governmental marketing, the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver is unlikely to add the 12,000 jobs that Premier Gordon Campbell once predicted. A new independent study by Price Waterhouse Coopers accounting firm, commissioned by the province and federal government, reveals that no more than 100 jobs,...
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