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1 23%
The Tyee
May 23 The Jubilant Shawn Mrazek Lives! (in Arts and Culture): And the local musician gives us a perfect moment while he's at it.  Related Stories 1-2-3-4 Get Movieland (in Arts and Culture) The Strange and Private World of Aaron Read (in Arts and Culture) Dealin' with Ben Rogers (in Arts and Culture)
May 23 How Rob Ford's Meltdown Could Save Toronto (in Opinion): Mayor's latest outrageous behavior may be catalyst city needs to open de-amalgamation debate.  
May 23 Bitumen Doesn't Float (in News): Study debunks Enbridge claims that oil sands crude spill is standard clean-up.  Related Stories Difficult Truths about 'Difficult Oil' (in News) VIDEO: Vancouver's Dilbit Dilemma (in News) Using Bitumen to Fuel Green Energy (in News)
2 15%
Northern Insights / Perceptivity
May 21 Canada's Senators, choose one: To help us decide which image best represents the Senate, Toronto Star provides a helpful resource HERE.
May 21 Government we collectively deserve: A significant week just passed. Great days for some; difficult moments for others. Like many observers of British Columbia politics, I was surprised by the election result. Believing facts clear and the need for change obvious, I was not merely surprised. I was confounded and needed time to react...
3 15%
BC Election 2013
May 16 Club 85 Contest: The winner!: I have compiled the results for Club 85. If the results were close, I would have waited until final count (which is two weeks from now) to be concluded. However, the results are not even close. There is one clear and unambiguous winner who is ahead by a mile. That is: Stephen Walker. He was t...
May 16 How did the pundits do?: The winner, in terms of projection by seat, goes to Eric Grenier of ThreeHundredEight.com who predicted 69 out of 85 outcomes. Pundit predictions were posted here. I came in dead last! How did the pundits do? (From May 14, 2013 Initial Count) Pundit Correct (out of 85) Rank Bernard Schulma...
4 12%
2010 Gold Rush (by Bob Mackin)
May 23 Smart meter info kept secret until after the election : So-called smart meters were among the multitude of grievances British Columbians had with the ruling BC Liberals, who were surprisingly given another four years to govern on May 14 when not enough voters showed up at the polls to force a change.While Health Canada claims there is no public healt...
May 22 Exclusive: Management shakeup at B.C. Place : One week after the BC Liberals were re-elected, a management shakeup at B.C. Place Stadium.  B.C. Pavilion Corporation CEO Dana Hayden notified staff on May 21 that Howard Crosley, the stadium’s general manager of 15 years, is out.  Crosley Vancouver Convention Centre general manager Ken Cret...
5 6%
Bill Tieleman
May 22 How the BC NDP Blew the Election - A series of unfortunate events, indeed.: From the Bad Beginning to the Slippery Slope to the Penultimate Peril and The End - the BC NDP election story makes for grim reading Adrian Dix in Victoria during election campaign - Cassandra photo Bill Tieleman’s 24 Hours Vancouver/The TyeecolumnTuesday May 21, 2013By Bill Tielema...
May 15 BC NDP flailed instead of fighting back against vicious BC Liberal attack - and lost the election during the campaign: Premier Christy Clark after TV leaders debate  Bill Tieleman's 24 Hours Vancouver/The Tyee columnWednesday May 15, 2013By Bill Tieleman "Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth." - Economist Paul KrugmanTuesday night’s victory by Premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberals wil...
6 6%
Stephen Rees's blog
May 9 One picture worth a thousand words: This image comes from the South Delta Leader – and their credit simply reads “via Twitter” Filed under: politics Tagged: BC Election 2013, BC Liberal Party, current-events, George Massey Tunnel, Massey Tunnel, politics, Transportation
May 8 Velopalooza: More info, including the event calendar, at www.velopalooza.ca Filed under: Transportation Tagged: bike
7 6%
From Bosnia to Canada > British Columbia
May 11 Canadian and Bosnian – My two nations and I: Most of us are born and grow up with a single citizenship, belonging to a single country, nation and homeland. Yet tens of millions of people every year decide to ask the citizenship of another country in the desire for a better life, the possibility of career advancement or to secure future gene...
May 4 From Surrey604.com: Interview with Gord Hume about City of Surrey Future, Transportation & Education (video): The City of Surrey’s inaugural Community Summit was held at SFU Surrey on April 6. It was a two-way dialogue allowing residents to discuss ideas, become more involved with and learn more about Surrey. Surrey604′s Esmir Milavic caught up with speaker Gord Hume after his keynote. Hume is one of Can...
8 6%
Policy Note: A Progressive Take On BC Issues
May 22 Lessons from the 2013 BC Election: What’s a progressive research institute to do?: As I write, it has been just a few days since the provincial election. As was the case for most of you, the result was unexpected. We are still processing what it means for our work and rethinking some of our research plans. For those of us who engage in deep thinking about policy ideas, this el...
May 22 Big Numbers – Big Lies: The election results were disheartening; it was, as many have commented, a victory of style over substance. Hope for something unachievable (a debt free B.C. in fifteen years) and fear of a leader and party that does not exist (an untrustworthy Chavez of the north) won the day. It was not a great...
9 6%
Victoria View
May 23 Process is still for cheese, Adrian: I was left with several questions after NDP leader Adrian Dix emerged from his post-election deliberations yesterday to announce yet another review – this one of his historic loss and the party’s future. One of them was about the party’s evolving pipeline policy. Here’s how Dix analyzed the pivot...
Mar 5 Smart meter showdown in Hope: This homemade bomb, apparently made with jet fuel, was confiscated by RCMP from a home in Hope Feb. 28. Here’s the full report from the Hope detachment. File #2013-6338 Home-made device makes electrical dispute explosive! Hope, BC: On February 28, 2013, around 1:00 PM, the Hope RCMP and the Upper...
10 5%
No Strings Attached: Laila Yuile on politics and lif...
May 18 I’m not saying that it’s going to be easy…. I AM saying it is going to be worth it. The future is yours if you rise to the challenge.: I grew up on moose meat, and the yearly fall hunt was as important as most city folk consider their tax refunds if they are so lucky. I’ve known the scent and feeling of hunting, of knowing what walked before you by the steam off  bear scat, or the water running down in  moose tracks. I know what...
May 15 “The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.” ~ Richard Nixon.: When asked by Philip Till what the leaders needed to do in the last bit of the campaign on his show recently, I said Dix needed to get on his game and get aggressive if he wanted to win.In fact,I actually said I would have run that campaign aggressively from day 1 and that aggressive doesn’t have...
11 0%
BC Iconoclast
2012 Jul 3rd Ballot - Shawn Atleo wins with 66.6%: Here are the result for the third ballotCandidate    3rd Ballot Change 2nd Ballot Change 1st BallotShawn Atleo   341 66.60% +23   318 59.44%   +34  284 52.59%  Pam Palmater  141 25.54% +34   107 20.00%   +12   95 17.59%Bill Erasmus   30  5.86%  -4    34  6.36%    +5   29  5.37%Diane Kelly       ...
12 0%
Public Eye Online
2011 Nov 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 ...
13 0%
Alex G. Tsakumis - Rebel With A Clause
May 23 @tc_shaw @adriandix on Tsakumis show on Monday. Libs all scared shitless to go on. Afraid of real questions. #bcpoli: @tc_shaw @adriandix on Tsakumis show on Monday. Libs all scared shitless to go on. Afraid of real questions. #bcpoli
14 0%
The Vancouver Observer
May 23 Journalism in the time of heroes: Vancouver Observer publisher Linda Solomon recounts the job that defined her as a journalist and future publisher.read more
15 0%
David Talks/The Berner Monologues
May 21 CHILD ASSAULT: Psychiatrists are prescribing millions of doses of powerful anti-psychotic drugs to infants and toddlers.Aside from making children crazy, these poisons facilitate dozens of health crises including diabetes, obesity and the increased risk of heart disease.There is no more dangerous and questionab...
16 0%
David Eby - Blog
2012 Nov Blog reno: Hello faithful (and patient) readers. I am updating my blog and website over the next couple of months. Stay tuned. Apologies for the loss of the archived content, it'll be back before you know it. Feel free to e-mail if you require any specific information that was in an old posting. D.
17 0%
Dogwood Initiative
May 17 What actually happened in the B.C. election?: In the aftermath of Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberal’s surprise election victory, the spinmeisters are inevitably trying to simplify a complex series of factors into sound bites. Two explanations are receiving prominent play in the media. These are: Clark’s victory was a referendum on pipeline...
18 0%
Democracy Law Blog
May 15 Is It Really Illegal for Candidates to Tweet on Voting Day?: For the second BC election in a row there has been minor controversy over the use of social media such as Twitter and Facebook on general voting day. The Canadian Press and the Vancouver Sun’s Digital Life blog reported today on how Elections BC told candidates and parties that they could not twe...
19 0%
Steve Forseth
May 23 WQLS Meeting tonight...: Tonight - there will be an update meeting on the West Quesnel Land Stability or WQLS Program tonight.  Details below from the City of Quesnel: WEST QUESNEL LAND STABILITY PROGRAMMay 23, 2013Open House 6:00 p.m., Presentation 7:00 p.m.Voyageur Elementary School gymnasiumEveryone is encouraged to a...
20 0%
New Media
May 22 Flickr is Still Awesome. Pinterest, Not So Much: A couple of weeks ago, I noticed one of the Pinterest photos on this blog had been replaced with a blank image. No problem — I went back into Pinterest, found a new photo to embed, done and done. And now all the Pinterest images I’ve embedded on all of my blogs are toast. Taken down for copyright...

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