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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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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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Jack Layton Steps Around Conservative Government and Gets Tough Emissions Regulations Passed Through Parliament
From 24 Hours
The House of Commons has given its final approval to a controversial climate-change bill that would require the government to drast...
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Liberals to Release Price of Campaign Promises
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The Liberals promised on Sunday to release the cost of their campaign promises, while the Conservatives fought another...
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VanRW |
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Embattled and Disgraced MP Blair Wilson Wants to Run Again, as a Liberal
From The Province --
Embattled former Liberal MP Blair Wilson has challenged the Liberal Party of Canada for barring him from running for the ne...
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VanRW |
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Federal Election Gets Specific -- What You Will Get From Each Party Inside
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Election campaigns are where the parties tell voters how they will spend our tax dollars. Here are the plans released ...
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Shane_B |
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Best Move for Liberals: Govern by Coalition (in Views)
How Grits can save Canada and themselves. ...
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TheTyee.ca |
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Morning Brew: Countdown to May
What is our Premier Thinking?BC's German Ferries May Be Lemons. Will this finally put the Fast Ferry scandal to rest? Are you guys still keeping score...
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Beyond Robson |
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Municipal Campaign Over: Provincial Election Next on Agenda
Now that we have made it through two elections in the space of two months - maybe we should take a break. Will politicos here in North Vancouver be a...
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North Vancouver Politics.com |
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Pick Your Poll Poison
Angus Reid's first-ever two polls on BC provincial politics show the NDP ahead. I can tell you those numbers do not match the BC Liberals' internal po...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Another poll, and the Liberals are on top
Angus Reid Strategies had the NDP five points ahead (see the post below); Ipsos Reid finds the Liberals up by nine with this poll. Which will make for...
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Liberals and Conservatives Tied on Environment, But Green Issues Taking a Backseat to Economy Among Voters
From the Province --
Stephane Dion has staked his campaign on it, there's an entire party devoted to it, but the environment is being left in th...
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Liberals Already Fighting
The Liberal leadership race is just a few weeks old, and already Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae, and Dominic LeBlanc are openly feuding. Apparently Rae di...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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The NDP's promises don't add up.
The week after Premier Campbell laid out his action plan to spend $485 million over 3-years to safeguard British Columbians from the growing global ec...
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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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Is Sucking Carbon Underground Really the Way to Go?
From 24 Hours
The B.C. government is contributing nearly three-and-a-half million dollars to a feasibility project to store carbon dioxide undergro...
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VanRW |
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Liberals Want Federal Agriculture Minister to Resign Over Deadly Listeria Outbreak
From CTV.ca News Staff --
The listeriosis outbreak that has killed 13 people didn't take long to become an election issue as Liberal Leader Step...
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Canadian_Revolution |
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Another Plug for Bob Rae as Liberal Leader
It's the delegates, stupid . When I appeared on CBC Radio's Daybreak program on the morning of Monday Dec.4 to read the entrails of the Liberal ...
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B.C. Policy Perspectives |
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Do our municipalities need "fixers"?
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -Lord Acton-Who ya gonna call when things go wrong?Not city hall. Nanaimo has slammed the door...
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FOI cover up, or isolated mistake - your call
Children's Minister Tom Christensen says it was a mistake. Yes, his ministry violated freedom of information law and tried to hide reports that child...
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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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DEMAND A COALITION GOVERNMENT
The following is a message from the Council of Canadians (London Chapter).Subject: ACTION ALERT DEMAND A COALITION GOVERNMENT SAMPLE LETTER P...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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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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Assessment freeze, tax deferral useful stopgaps
How bad is it going to get in British Columbia? And who is going to take the brunt of the beating as the economy reels from the collapse of a global f...
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The power of knowledge
The provincial Liberals claim their open platform - which will allow British Columbians to help shape the party's election platform via the Internet...
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Public Eye Online |
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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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Puzzles in Organized Crime
.Sunday morning ... and I was going to post two items about Organized Crime in B.C. But then, at breakfast, I came to this part of the book I'm readin...
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Legislature Raids |
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Canadians like McKenna, Manley, Ignatieff but not Rae
Angus Reid release As Liberal Party supporters begin the process of choosing a replacement for St phane Dion, a political figure who has already ...
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Chinese in Vancouver |
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[GB] Why drag SUCCESS into politics?
Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB].Tung Chan, the CEO of SUCCESS, recently...
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Chinese in Vancouver |
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A tale of two cities
Last night Raj Chouhan and his fellow NDPers were out in Vancouver helping Jenn McGinn and Spencer Herbert deliver large wins for their party. Both N...
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Burnaby Politics |
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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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Oh-For-Twenty-Seven
The BC NDP continued the 27-year streak of governments losing by-elections in BC by winning both Vancouver-Fairview and Vancouver-Burrard.Whether we h...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Vancouver provincial by-elections voters reject BC Liberals' cheating, elect 2 NDP MLAs in Fairview, Burrard
Despite enormous efforts by the BC Liberal provincial government to cheat their way to 2 by-elections wins by running expensive, taxpayer financed adv...
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You still think we need a Gateway?
My thanks to Donna Passmore and Rita Dawson for supplying the following The slump in traffic to the West Coast of the United States is hitting the m...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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BC Liberals cheating to win in 2 by-elections on Wednesday with taxpayer-paid government ads
Feel-good ads don't feel so goodBy BILL TIELEMANYou can't cheat the public for long.- Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singerIt's bad enough when a polit...
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Bill Tieleman |
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The Canadian Guide to American Political English
Canadians watching the US presidential campaign must sometimes think the Americans are speaking in tongues. As a service to the confused, I offer this...
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View from Seymour |
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Scary Three Words Early for Halloween: Dosanjh for PM?
The Metro paper must be trying to scare the absolute bejesus out of people by putting on their cover the over promo for some sort of early trick or tr...
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Vancouverite |
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Scary Three Words Early for Halloween: Dosangh for PM?
The Metro paper must be trying to scare the absolute bejesus out of people by putting on their cover the over promo for some sort of early trick or tr...
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Vancouverite |
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A report from the Renters At Risk Campaign
By Sharon IsaakWhat a great event yesterday! It went perfectly! People showed up! The media showed up! It didn't rain!Thank you all for putting your ...
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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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Abbotsford's new direction
For the last few months I have been attending the Select Committee on Interregional Transportation set up by the City of Abbotsford. To some extent th...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Bridges and blacktop likely targets of Liberal accelerated spending
Vaughan Palmer speculates on the projects that are ready to go that may get accelerated funding as a result of the Premier's announcement this w...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Is that really it? Premier Gordon Campbell's free-time political broadcast shows lack of common sense in lame approach to fiscal crisis
Is that really it? That's all Premier Gordon Campbell had to offer British Columbians facing the biggest economic crisis in decades?Hopefully voters ...
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Bill Tieleman |
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Town Hall on SFPR at the North Delta Firehall
I was privileged to be invited to be an expert at a meeting last night. My assigned subject was the lack of economic rationale for the Gateway i...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Less than meets the eye to Campbell's big talk
Gordon Campbell offered up some spooky pre-Halloween rhetoric about the global economic crisis night, but outlined a pretty modest response.Businesses...
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Left Coalition Badly Needed (in Views)
Harper's agenda must be stopped by Liberals, NDP and Bloc. ...
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TheTyee.ca |
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Court brings action on homelessness
Coming soon to a park near you - homeless people in tents, under tarps and sheltered by cardboard boxes.That's the spectre that has people here in the...
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Strategic voting fails in federal election - look at Saanich-Gulf Islands results for proof
Bill Tieleman's 24 Hours ColumnTuesday October 21, 2008Strategic voting doesn't workBy BILL TIELEMANThus, what is of supreme importance in war is to a...
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Bill Tieleman |
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Who will Billy back?
Stephane Dion has been forced out after a poor showing in last week's election. Now the Liberals look to pick the party's 12th leader.As per usual th...
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Burnaby Politics |
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Dion Set To Speak
The most-anticipated Stephane Dion press conference ever will kick off in about twenty minutes in Ottawa. Most expect him to resign as leader of the L...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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