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# Share Your Votes Blog/Website  Recent Posts                 
1 29%
The Tyee
Jan 19 What the Keystone Rejection Really Reveals (in Opinion): ENERGY & EQUITY: The ruthless, evolving nature of energy politics.
Jan 19 What Happened to The Tyee? (in News): Our server crashed for almost 12 hours yesterday. Here's why.
Jan 19 Harper's Former Schoolmate Now on His Enemies List (in News): 'Radical foreign' oil sands foe Bill McKibben attended Toronto elementary school with Stephen Harper.
2 15%
Northern Insights / Perceptivity
Feb 6 I-RO-NY [ ahy-ruh-nee ]: The REPLAY below from September 2010 seems particularly relevant after Jonathan Fowlie exposed the story of HST pamphlets going from printer to shredder by the truckload. The original waste is bad. Worse is demonstration that unprincipled politicians will throw good money after bad if there is a ...
Feb 6 Uncomfortable parallels: While a mere teenager when Richard Nixon was elected to a second term, Stephen Harper had found a mentor. A few decades later, empowered by a majority in parliament, the now Canadian Prime Minister is putting early inspirations into action.Nixon spent his early years working as an ardent anti-com...
3 12%
Public Eye Online
Nov 10 What went right and what went wrong at Public Eye?: That's the question the Canadian Centre for Investigative Journalism asked me following my decision to suspend Public Eye's daily reporting. In an article published by the centre and J-Source.ca I provide some of the answers, revealing the secrets of its success and why it was difficult ...
Nov 9 Public Eye continues to make headlines: It's been just over a week since I announced I was suspending Public Eye's daily investigative coverage of provincial politics. Since then, I've been overwhelmed and appreciative of everyone who has expressed their support for the work I've done over the past eight years, as well the c...
4 8%
Bill Tieleman
Feb 7 How much will BC Premier Christy Clark's Liquid National Gas plants cost BC Hydro customers? And are they safe?: Who Pays Huge Power Bills for Clark's Gas Plants? LNG Tanker - headed for BC waters? Turning natural gas into liquid sucks electricity. Ratepayers, guard your wallets.Bill Tieleman's 24 hours/The Tyee columnTuesday February 7, 2012By Bill Tieleman "Fixation on short term corporate profits and sh...
Jan 31 No Way YVR! The fight starts now against Vancouver International Airport's plan for 33% hike in Airport Improvement Fee - unaccountable YVR can take off, eh?: No Way YVR! Welcome to Vancouver - $20 Airport Improvement Fee - or else! Vancouver airport's improvement fee hike, set byunelected officials with BC Liberal ties, should be groundedBill Tieleman's 24 hours/The Tyee columnTuesday January 31, 2012By Bill Tieleman "I'm leavin' on a jet plane/I don...
5 6%
BC Election 2013
Feb 2 Angus Reid Poll – NDP 42, BCL 28, CON 19, GRN 10: In an Angus Reid public opinion poll (their link, local link) conducted from January 27 to January 29, 2012, sampling 800 people has the following voter intentions: BC NDP – 42% BC Liberal – 28% BC Conservatives – 19% BC Greens – 10% Other – 1% Metro Vancouver: NDP 42 / BCL 27 / CON 20 / GRN 10 /...
Jan 25 Forum Research: NDP 39, BCL 26, CON 22: Provincial polling released by Forum Research, but published on the Vancouver Province had the following salient information: 988 sampled; automated phone polling; regionally weighted, conducted on January 23, 2012. Voting intentions: BC NDP: 39% BC Liberals: 26% BC Conservatives: 22% BC Greens: ...
6 6%
seeseeMEDIA.com
Nov 18 testt: test
Nov 15 John Meech responds ……. for Progressive Delta PAG: The following is verbatim John Meech’s response for Progressive Delta PAG  to the editors (minor formatting changes by editors)  response 1. Progressive Delta PAG – why now? 1. PD intends to be the peoples’ watchdog. No longer can the political leaders in Delta get away with the manipulation and ...
7 6%
Stephen Rees's blog
Feb 1 Smart Growth Debate: Nathan Pachal has asked me to post a press release from South Fraser OnTrax. They have invited Todd Litman to debate Smart Growth  with Randal O’Toole. Even if I was in town on that day, I would not be going. I have the greatest of respect for Todd but I have nothing but contempt for Randal O’Too...
Jan 26 The Airport and The Ferries: Two quite different modes – and the same issue. The BC Liberals are currently sitting on their hands about the Macatee report on BC Ferries – which ought to make Vaughan Palmer’s exit interview with David Hahn worth watching. (Voice of BC Shaw Cable only 8pm tonight). The policy has been for the ...
8 6%
BC Iconoclast
Jan 30 Retirement Age: Since the government has said they plan on raising the age at which you can start to collect Old Age Security from 65 to 67, I thought I would express my thoughts on this. The age at which you can collect Old Age Security has not risen since it was introduced in Canada.   This does not make any s...
Jan 26 The weakness of polling - two polls released in Alberta at the same time: I have a lot of skepticism of polling because the results are so often such a very weak reflection of how the public actually votes.    Pollsters all act as if their results are good and that there are no systemic problems with how they poll the public.    Most political polls are commissioned by...
9 6%
Democracy Law Blog
Feb 7 Federal By-Election in Toronto-Danforth to be Held on May 19th: Elections Canada has issued the writ of election for a by-election in the electoral district of Toronto-Danforth.
Feb 1 Federal Registered Political Party Q4 2011 Financial Reports Now Available: The federal registered parties' fourth quarter financial returns for 2011 are now available on the Elections Canada website.
10 6%
paulhillsdon.com
Feb 2 Rescuing Vancouver’s middle class from financial ruin: For the past week, The Province has been publishing a series of articles on Vancouverites who’ve left the region to seek a better life elsewhere. It seems as though the financial pressures on the middle class are finally prompting locals … Continue reading →
Feb 1 UN calls for new paradigm on progress: Following up on the fascinating dialogues at Davos, where some of the world’s richest individuals discussed reforming capitalism for the 21st century, the UN is calling on the world to establish a new precedent for progress: sustainable development. Preceding the … Continue reading →
11 0%
Victoria View
Jan 31 Parrot pogey pretty pathetic politics: Here’s one of the lucky orphan birds at the grandly titled World Parrot Refuge in Coombs, a wide spot in the road near Parksville. Islanders are all-atwitter with the news that the parrot refuge has received a $55,000 provincial grant to fund its operations. When gambling grants for this and othe...
12 0%
The Vancouver Observer
Dec 3 Getting over greed in the New Year: While most of us are wishing for crap, I try to remember that the most important thing is thinking of others.read more
13 0%
Dogwood Initiative
Dec 21 Hope for the new year: Anger. Frustration. Despair. These are the feelings many of us have when we read the news these days. If it’s not our prime minister vowing to send oil to Asia, it’s Canada backing out of the Kyoto protocol on climate change. Here in B.C., we’re in a classic David and Goliath battle — First Natio...
14 0%
BC Vote
2011 May HST Opposition Undermined By Its Leaders In Public Forums: Bill Vander Zalm deserves some respect. He’s a political entrepreneur of enviable skill. With nothing but a great big grin and an inflated sense of outrage, he mobilized hundreds of volunteers across B.C. to collect an incredible 700,000 signatures against the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). It was a...
15 0%
I'm Laila Yuile, And This Is How I See It
Feb 8 ” Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity” or… “How the BC liberals are now overspending to fix the corrections crisis they created.”:                                                                             The BC Liberals: Same crap, same people, different motives Indeed, one should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity, in particular when it comes to politicians and government – case in point, the BC Liberals...
16 0%
David Talks/The Berner Monologues
Feb 5 OPEN LETTER TO 2 ERRANT MP's: Dear Randall Garrison, NDP MP for Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca and Peter Stoffer, NDP MP for Sackville-Eastern Shore,Gentlemen,What are your values?The recent story in the national press that you both are lobbying to convince the government that golf games are a valid business expense, worthy of a 50-p...
17 0%
David Eby - Blog
Feb 2 David Ho, sex workers, and the Vancouver Police Foundation: The David Ho case illuminates the challenges sex workers face in going to police, including during the period of the Pickton case, and well after. Well, it illuminates a lot of things actually, some of which raise serious questions that go beyond even the traditional barriers to sex worker report...
18 0%
Currents
Feb 7 Human Rights and Halftime Shows in America: Here’s a human rights condundrum for you: You are reasonably certain that an asylum seeker sent back to his country of origin could face torture. You are equally certain that this person poses a lethal terrorist threat to citizens in the local community (or abroad, if this person is given a chan...
19 0%
From Bosnia to Canada > British Columbia
Jan 22 Canadian foreign policy doesn’t need review, needs more action and results: SURREY – According to recent media reports and opinions expressed in Canadian medias our foreign policy will be faced with another review and probably major facelift. To some this is totally appropriate approach to one of the most important political elements of our system, probably one of the st...

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