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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.

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Northern Insights / Perceptivity

Feb 3	REPLAY: Liberal plan of action: Reader Lorne Finlayson provided this to us a year ago. However, he didn't indicate when the change would take place. Is the time growing close? Being in either a realistic, or pessimistic state of mind this morning - take your pick - I foresee the following events unfolding for this benighted p...
Feb 3	Talking tough with empty words and an empty head: Is there anything more laughable than a politician trained in nothing providing direction to executives of the province's $14-billion dollar monopoly insurer. Speaking to ICBC, British Columbia's chief law officer "delivered a firm reminder that there has been a public backlash to recent reve...

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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...

Bill Tieleman

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...

Jan 24

NDP’s next leader of the opposition should be Peggy Nash: Fluently bilingual, tough, experienced, knowledgeable, a powerful speaker , a social democrat who understands the economy and someone who will listen and learn as well as lead, Peggy Nash is my choice. Peggy Nash & Bill Tieleman - December 2012 Bill Tieleman's 24 hours/The Tyee columnTuesday...

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: ...

seeseeMEDIA.com

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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 ...

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 ...

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...

Democracy Law Blog

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.
Jan 30	Parti Québécois Adopts Several Democratic Reform Policies: The Montreal Gazette reports on a series of policy proposals that were adopted by the Parti Québécois at a recent council meeting.

paulhillsdon.com

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 →
Jan 31	Old Age Security is a waste of tax dollars: The Prime Minster was in Davos last week for the World Economic Forum. During his speech, he laid out a bold vision based on structural reforms to many Canadian governmental programs, including Old Age Security. As a young person with … Continue reading →

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...

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

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...

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...

I'm Laila Yuile, And This Is How I See It

Jan 30

“It’s not hard to make the right decisions when you know what your values are” ~ Roy Disney: Unfortunately… the vast majority of BC Liberals in office have no clue what they really value, so they do have a hard time making decisions…. case in point: this extremely stupid and assinine expenditure detailed by Jonathan Fowlie of the Vancouver Sun…. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Liberals...

David Talks/The Berner Monologues

Jan 31

HARM PRODUCTION ALTERNATIVE: This is an interactive site. The Name of the Game is ENGAGEMENT. Don't be Shy. Tell us what you think. Post your comments.

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...

Currents

Feb 3

The Creepiest House In Vancouver: Anyone know what the story is behind this decrepit house on Main Street where they keep mannequin heads in the window? No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

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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