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Call the police
Earlier, we reported the provincial New Democrats introduced a comprehensive government integrity bill that would have, in part, patched up the Campbe...
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The fix isn't in
Today, provincial elected representatives returned to Victoria for a five-day sitting. But, in an interview with Public Eye, Attorney General Wally Op...
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BC's weird, costly Public Affairs Bureau.
.You've heard me talk about B.C.'s Public Affairs Bureau and its Public Affairs Officers. I call them Spin Doctors. Sometimes they're called Media Mon...
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Legislature Raids |
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Lost in Extension?
Earlier, we reported Deloitte Touche LLP's contract to draft the Campbell administration's home and community care strategic document had been extende...
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Public Eye Online |
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Opportunity knocks
Earlier, we reported on the departure of top tourism, culture and the arts bureaucrat Bruce Okabe - who left the bureaucracy on August 31. That was ju...
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Kinsella's lawyer known for environmental work
Earlier this month, top provincial Liberal backroom boy Patrick Kinsella refused to consent to any investigation of his interactions with the Campbe...
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Kinsella complaint being assessed
Earlier this month, the provincial New Democrats asked the Mounties to investigate provincial Liberal backroom boy Patrick Kinsella. This, after Mr. K...
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Public Eye Online |
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Help is close to home
Here's a curiosity: earlier this year, Deloitte and Touche LLP was awarded a contract by the health services ministry to draft the Campbell administra...
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Public Eye Online |
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Bill of woods
The Campbell administration's climate action secretariat has hired some extra help. New Direction Resource Management Ltd. president Bill Bourgeois ha...
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Public Eye Online |
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Home on the pay range
The provincial government has increased the salaries of its top bureaucrats by an average of 7.38 percent or $14,960 to $217,758. That announcement fo...
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Public Eye Online |
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Two centres are better than one
Earlier, we exclusively reported on hoteliers Sergio and Wendy Cocchi's efforts to develop the government's promised $20 million autism education and ...
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Two centres are better than one?
Earlier, we exclusively reported on hoteliers Sergio and Wendy Cocchi's efforts to develop the government's promised $20 million autism education and ...
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Public Eye Online |
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A formulaic story
Earlier, we exclusively reported the province's pro- and anti-single transferable vote forces had united to oppose the Campbell administration's propo...
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Public Eye Online |
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Remember the provincial government's controversial
Remember the provincial government's controversial promise to allow the construction of five and six storey wood-frame buildings? You remember, the on...
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Public Eye Online |
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Here the paper trail ends
Last year, we requested access to the meeting minutes and agendas for the provincial government's deputy ministers' council since September 1, 2006....
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Public Eye Online |
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This week, the Island Corridor Foundation announce
This week, the Island Corridor Foundation announced volunteers will be distributing over 75,000 postcards as part of an effort to convince the Campbel...
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Public Eye Online |
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Singing in Harmony
Back in June, the Campbell administration appointed Sheldon Stoilen to the BC Ferry Commission. According to the board resourcing and development offi...
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Public Eye Online |
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A seed in the bucket
Last week, the Campbell administration revealed would be planting four million trees in urban areas as part of a $10 million initiative to provide op...
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Coming up Wild Roses
Earlier, we wondered whether Jessica McDonald could become the highest paid provincial civil service head in Canada. But it turns out Alberta's execut...
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Tress for Tomorrow today
The provincial government is contracting out its high-profile Trees for Tomorrow initiative. The intiative - an urban reforestation program that wa...
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Trees for Tomorrow today
The provincial government is contracting out its high-profile Trees for Tomorrow initiative. The intiative - an urban reforestation program that wa...
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Public Eye Online |
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Double dose
Remember the provincial government's controversial pharmaceutical task force? Well, the Campbell administration has appointed foresty ministry tenure ...
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Public Eye Online |
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Someone isn't drinking the Kool-Aid
The Campbell administration's recent decision to increase the maximum payable salaries for its deputy ministers has given the labour movement an excus...
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Public Eye Online |
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What's in an offset?
The Campbell administration's climate action secretariat has convened a hasty meeting with environmental groups this coming Thursday to discuss the go...
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Public Eye Online |
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In a class by herself
Last week, the Campbell administration said it was increasing the maximum payable salaries for its top bureaucrats to maintain B.C.'s competitiveness...
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Public Eye Online |
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The price of policy
Earlier, we reported on how Decima Research Ltd.'s polling appears to have been influential in laying one of the cornerstones for the Campbell adminis...
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Public Eye Online |
active:16 weeks 11 hours ago |
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The biggest snout of them all?
Thanks to the Campbell administration's generosity, the premier's deputy minister Jessica Macdonald could now be making $348,600. By comparison, accor...
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Public Eye Online |
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Earlier, we reported the Campbell administration h
Earlier, we reported the Campbell administration had dramatically increased the maximum payable salaries for its top bureaucrats - by 34.93 percent fo...
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Public Eye Online |
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Prime grade pork
Earlier, we reported the Campbell administration had given it's deputy ministers at enormous pay increase. This, depite the fact the government had sa...
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Public Eye Online |
active:16 weeks 3 days ago |
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Transparency without publicity
This year, the Campbell administration spent $587,791.06 on the premier's fourth annual innovation and excellence awards. But what government initiati...
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Public Eye Online |
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Sweet Home Indiana
Apparently, the Campbell administration has moved Riverview Hospital to Noblesville, Indiana. After all, can there be any other explanation for why th...
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Public Eye Online |
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Gentlemen, we can rebuild it
Earlier, we reported the Campbell administration had moved the Website promoting the premier's innovation and excellence awards from the Internet to t...
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Public Eye Online |
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Maybe they're just being humble?
In 2007, the Campbell administration justified spending big bucks on the premier's innovation and excellence awards on the basis that it would help re...
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Public Eye Online |
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Security blanket
Earlier, we reported the Campbell administration spent $149,726.71 producing videos for the premier's fourth annual innovation and excellence awards. ...
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Public Eye Online |
active:17 weeks 3 days ago |
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Earlier, we reported the Campbell administration s
Earlier, we reported the Campbell administration spent $149,726.71 producing videos for the premier's fourth annual innovation and excellence awards. ...
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Olympics will increase road traffic by 15%
Vancouver SunDon't anybody say that they are surprised by this headline. This is not actually news top anyone who has been even remptely aware o...
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Kevin and Goliath
BC Railway Co. may have leased its tracks to Canadian National Railway Co. in 2004, ceasing its freight operations. But, according to executive compen...
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Public Eye Online |
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Beyond outreach
It's been four months since the Campbell administration fired former Sierra Club of Canada president Louise Comeau, the outreach and strategic engagem...
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Public Eye Online |
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The Campbell administration has put the knife in a
The Campbell administration has put the knife in a major potential information technology deal with IBM Canada Ltd., Public Eye has exclusively learne...
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Public Eye Online |
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Who's Leading the Way?
Last month, Vancouver planning commissioner Mike Klassen created the Axe the Carbon Consumption Tax Axers - a now defunct Facebook group supporting th...
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Public Eye Online |
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Come back, Shane!
By 2015, 45 percent of provincial government managers will be eligible for retirement. But it looks like the Campbell administration is already having...
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Public Eye Online |
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Meanwhile, on the home front
Last month, Joan McIntyre was appointed the Campbell administration's new minister of state for intergovernmental relations. So, given her new respons...
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Public Eye Online |
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Asian food for thought
Last week, former community services minister Ida Chong was promoted to become the Campbell administration's technology, trade and economic developmen...
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Public Eye Online |
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Accounting for everything
Earlier, we reported the lobbying association for name-brand drug companies may have provided staffing, information and research support to the Camp...
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Public Eye Online |
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All drugged up
The provincial government has recently been lambasted for pandering to brand-name drug companies. This, after the Campbell administration accepted the...
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Public Eye Online |
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All the credit, none of the responsibility
In 2006, the provincial New Democrats accused the government of misleading B.C. taxpayers by denying the true cost of the 2010 Olympic Games. Specif...
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Public Eye Online |
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Snake eyes?
The Campbell administration has undoubtably been good for Great Canadian Casino Corp.'s business. But, despite that profitable relationship, the compa...
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Public Eye Online |
active:27 weeks 3 days ago |
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Tsakumis: "No balance exists on either side."
Last week, the provincial New Democrats repeatedly led question period with criticisms of the government's forest policy. Is this a smart strategy? Sh...
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Public Eye Online |
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Late penalty?
Last week, we told you Decima Research Ltd. submitted its report on how British Columbians think about climate change to the government just days be...
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Public Eye Online |
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LiveSmart through better polling
Research conducted by a national polling company appears to have been influential in laying one of the cornerstones for the Campbell administration's ...
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