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Opposition to Carbon Tax Won't End -- The Difference is, This Time, the Opposition May Be Right
From CBC.ca
Residents in rural British Columbia continue to oppose the province's controversial carbon tax, which comes into effect July 1.
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Prominant Potential Liberal Abandoning Stephane Dion Because of Federal Carbon Tax Plans
From the Vancouver Sun
Michael Byers, a prominent University of B.C. professor and climate-change policy critic, said Wednesday he will seek the ...
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VanRW |
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Gordie Knocks NDP for 'Playing Politics' With Carbon Tax
B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell called the NDP campaign to axe the tax, which leader Carol James announced earlier Tuesday, disingenuou...
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Drop this cockeyed carbon crusade and rally around consumers instead
With the price of gas nudging $1.50 a litre in the Lower Mainland, the absurdity of Premier Gordon Campbell's carbon tax becomes daily more apparent.
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Nag_Champa |
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Becoming Carbon Neutral = Carbon Tax Rebate for Municipalities -- BC Government
From CBC.ca --
Municipalities hit by the B.C. government's carbon tax will receive a rebate if they commit to becoming carbon neutral by 2012.
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Shane_B |
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Dion Takes a Page From BC
From CTV.ca
Famed environmentalist David Suzuki has strongly backed Liberal leader Stephane Dion's emerging carbon tax plan and slammed the NDP ...
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Shane_B |
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Majority hate carbon tax
But broad opposition hasn't hurt Liberals -- yet. People across B.C. are fired up about the carbon tax.
A new poll shows that 60 per cent of B.C.e...
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Road Emissions Dominate Global Transport Emissions
Science DailyThe world's car park is growing. It has become so big that the impact of emissions from today's road traffic on the global temperature in...
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BC NDP Against Carbon Tax, Will Gregor Robertson Follow Suit, or Make His Own Path?
From the Georgia Straight
Vancouver-Fairview NDP MLA Gregor Robertson won't reveal if he'll vote with NDP Leader Carole James in opposition ...
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Shane_B |
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Provincial NDP Starts Petition Campaign to Fight Carbon Tax
From News 1130
Look for the provincial New Democrats to protest the carbon tax through the coming week.
NDP MLA Mike Farnworth used his consti...
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Shane_B |
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BC's Carbon Tax Will Hurt Lower Income Earners the Most -- New Study
B.C.'s controversial carbon tax will hit low-income families harder as it rises each year, according to a new report released by the Canadian Centre f...
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Business Group Advocates Halting Future Carbon Taxes for Further Study
From CBC.ca --
The British Columbia government should freeze further carbon tax increases while it gauges their effectiveness, a prominent busin...
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Carbon Tax Opponents Take Credit for Recent Drop in Gas Prices
From CTVbc.ca --
Fuel prices may be dropping, but the pain is not going away.
But is the debate around the new carbon tax heated enough to to...
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Please Read : This is How the Carbon Tax Doesn't Hurt Us
From News 1130
With gas prices in Vancouver flirting with $1.50 a litre, much of the attention has been on the 2.4 cent a litre provincial carbon...
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Shane_B |
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Tax Increases, Even 'Revenue Neutral' Ones, Are Always a Tough Sell, Federally and Locally
From CTVbc.ca
The Conservative party is about to unveil new ads that will play at fuel pumps warning people about a possible new Liberal carbon t...
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Gas Prices Likely to Hit $1.50 Next Week
From News 1130
The price at the pump is creeping towards $1.50 litre today and come July 1st when the government's proposed carbon tax kicks in, ...
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Shane_B |
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Campbell looking like a liability for Liberals
Fixed election dates make for a better democracy.But some Liberals must be wishing Premier Gordon Campbell had been more interested in political advan...
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What is our Premier Thinking?
Richmond News More than 200,000 people a day will be taken off the road thanks to the Canada Line and travel time to downtown Vancouver will also be...
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You Say You Want a (Green) Revolution
While the jury is still out on whether President-elect Barack Obama will prove able to usher in meaningful change during his time in office, his...
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NDP running out of gas.
Today's gas prices are 1.05 a litre. We have all noticed the massive decline in gas prices over the past few months as oil prices dropped from a summ...
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Walter Schultz |
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Are too aggressive Liberals helping James?
I've got to admit, I didn't watch Carole James economic pitch on TV. I was watching David Copperfield make a '48 Lincoln appear out of nowhere at the ...
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Manipulative COMPAS poll bolsters skeptics' position
A COMPAS poll (attached) sponsored by the neo-con Frontier Centre for Public Policy offers an embarrassing example of a survey that sacrifices the di...
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Election tactics in Saanich-Gulf Islands should get close look
Some odd even worrying things happened in the Saanich-Gulf Island's riding successfully held by Conservative cabinet minister Gary Lunn.One el...
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Carbon Tax Whacks the Poor, Later (in News)
Three years out, wealthy take smaller hit than low income BCers: study. ...
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TheTyee.ca |
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Carbon Tax Gets Another Voter Test Wednesday (in News)
Primer: Parties' global warming stands going into byelection. ...
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TheTyee.ca |
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This is a BC NDP Press Release
I am not a member of the NDP - or indeed any political party. In fact I am bit disgusted with the way the NDP has decided to use the carbon tax as a s...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Climate Change - A Humanity Threatening Non-Issue
The following op ed was offered to the mainsteam media but they declined it. Its author is Bill Henderson, a reader of this blog and a supporter of th...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Campaign misinformation has set back climate change debate
CanwestSomething I missed on Friday was brought to my attention thanks to the ever useful BCEN LW list (hat tip to the indefatigable Bill Henderson).G...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Is Carbon Tax Political Poison? (in News)
Dion and Campbell might have just sold it badly: pollster. ...
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TheTyee.ca |
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Dion and Harper both in trouble after election
Sure, it was a bad night for Stephane Dion.And collapsing financial markets and a bad showing in Quebec hurt Stephen Harper's hopes for a majority gov...
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Jack Layton: Captain of the team to re-elect Stephen Harper
If Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper is re-elected next week as Canadian prime minister, he will owe the biggest vote of gratitude to the New D...
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Financing fears grow over P3 projects
Jeff NagelThe world's financial house of cards is tumbling down, but Partnerships BC CEO Larry Blain said he is pretty relaxed . So that's...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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B.C. NDP demands probe of Penner's role in silencing scientists
Canadian Press via the CBC BC NewsYou may well recall that recently an old issue - the Genstar developments proposed in Mission - resurfaced with alle...
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GUEST POST: Yes I Should Vote--But For Whom?
On the weekend, I posed the question, How do you vote--local or national? Resident Roland Seguin had been mulling the same questions and sent me thi...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Can we change in time?
I have found that the BCEN Landwatch list serve is an endless source of leads, discussions and debate about a wide variety of issues, some of which fi...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Township Council Meeting Report--Monday Afternoon, Sept. 29, 2008
Notes from Langley Township Council's Monday afternoon meeting, September 29, 2008. Councillor Kositsky was absent.Margaret Mahan of BEST made a deleg...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Sunday round up
I seemed to spend a lot of time this weekend with a microphone in my hand. I have already written about Saturday's rally so this post just looks at Su...
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Two Pieces of Good News for Township Taxpayers
Yesterday's Vancouver Sun had not one, but two, pieces of good news for local taxpayers. First, Premier Gordon Campbell announced that municipalities ...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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On Larsen, Tousaw, Turner, and Warawa
There has been much ink--digital and print--spilled in recent days over the number of federal candidates whose past (mis)deeds have cropped up on the ...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Cynical New Democrats playing into Harper's hands
Canada's New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton continues to opt for cheap partisan opportunism over sound environmental policy - most recently decry...
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Hyperbole and The Myth of the Fiscal Conservative
The Liberals released their 76-page platform this week, including the proposed carbon tax, to predictable ridicule from the Conservatives. Prime Min...
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Another reason I won't be voting Liberal on Oct 14
Stephane Dion launched his Green Gateway plan today. The previous link is to the pdf file, this one is to the press release.Public Transit is an...
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Bogus Budget Consultation Paper
Some days I have to do a bit of searching to find something to blog about. This morning it landed on my doormat. If you live in BC Canada post will be...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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GUEST BLOG: Bud for Guns
Former Township Councillor Karen Kersey sent me the following guest post on marijuana legalization. I should note that the opinions expressed do not r...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
active:9 weeks 6 days ago |
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A federal election campaign about nothing
What an odd federal election campaign. We've had naked pictures of a Conservative candidate, a couple of New Democrats and another Tory dumped for dru...
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B.C.'s transit plan faces funding shortfall
CBCKevin Falcon was on the Radio 1 morning show today (no, I didn't listen) so I suppose that is the genesis of this story today. The shortfall on Tra...
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Harper Unites French and English Canada - Against Harper
What do separatist leader Gilles Duceppe and Newfoundland Conservative Premier Danny Williams have in common? They both think Harper is unqualified...
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Time To Storm The Bastille - Letter To The Editor by Shane Dyson
This fall might have seen some real improvements for people in Langley and the province in general. We might have finally seen a provincial senior's a...
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Langley Free Press |
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Harper's Climate Carbon Tax Snowjob
Mr. Harper's credibility on the climate file hit a new low recently when he claimed with a straight face that the Liberal's proposed carbon tax would ...
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Greens to call for twinning of many of Canada's rail lines
Globe and MailMs. May released her entire platform last October in a 156-page document called Vision Green. However, because no election campaign was ...
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