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Last year, the Campbell administration announced it would be increasing the base salaries for its top bureaucrats by an average of 7.38 percent or $14,960 to $217,758. But the government refused to release the names of which deputy ministers would......

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Earlier, we reported Jeff Fox had resigned as president of the provincial New Democrats to avoid a possible perceived conflict of interest. So who has replaced him? Well, that would be party vice-president Sav Dhaliwal. Mr. Dhaliwal was elected to......

topics: elected, new-democrats

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The BC Agriculture Council applied to strip migrant farm workers of the labour rights enjoyed by Canadian workers while Steve Thomson, British Columbia's new agriculture and lands minister, was its executive director. In a submission made to the Labo...

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Last week, The Globe and Mail's Mark Hume reported the provincial government may have destroyed all cabinet e-mails between 2001 and 2005. This, despite a law that requires government records to be kept for at least seven years unless they......

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Mineral Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia president and chief executive officer Gavin Dirom wants the Campbell administration to rescind its prohibition on uranium and thorium exploration and mining. And he's invited the Campbell a...

topics: campbell-administration, mining

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The provincial New Democrats will be hiring a new caucus communications director. In an interview with Public Eye, the present director Glen Sanford confirmed he's moving on. I took the job as a short-term project until the election, Mr. Sanford......

topics: election, new-democrats

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Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Minister George Abbott told reporters today no decision has made as to whether there will be a formal public consultation process for the Campbell administration's proposed Recognition and Reconciliation Act. N...

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Earlier, we reported the provincial government has blown its direct forest fire fighting budget for five of the past seven fiscal years. So perhaps the Campbell administration needs to reassess how it estimates those budgets? Or perhaps won't, as sug...

topics: campbell-administration, provincial-government

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Last week, the provincial government quietly announced it would be preparing wildfire protection plans for three resorts. But the senior vice-president for two of those resorts - Big White and Silver Star - has told Public Eye his company, Intrawest....

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The provincial Conservatives didn't win any seats in the most recent election. But it did win some headlines. So will those headlines be enough to keep the party active between now and 2013? Well, we may find out on September......