From La Presse: Portant les couleurs conservatrices dans Nanaimo-Cowichan, John Koury a dit qu’il ne voulait pas prendre part à un débat où la députée et candidate néo-démocrate Jean Crowder amènerait ses partisans. «Je pense qu’il est plus utile de passer mon temps à rencontrer les gens dans leur porte
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Challenging the Commonplace: My Fellow Canadians: Where do you get your news?
Do you get paper delivery each morning? Read the national, provincial or local headlines from newspapers at work? Catch up on the news from papers left at Tim Hortons?
Do you instead get your news from the airwaves, via radio? From TV? Or online, from…
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: My Fellow Canadians: Where do you get your news?
Do you get paper delivery each morning? Read the national, provincial or local headlines from newspapers at work? Catch up on the news from papers left at Tim Hortons? Do you instead get your news from the airwaves, via radio? From TV? Or online, from traditional or alternative news magazine
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: My Fellow Canadians: Where do you get your news?
Do you get paper delivery each morning? Read the national, provincial or local headlines from newspapers at work? Catch up on the news from papers left at Tim Hortons? Do you instead get your news from the airwaves, via radio? From TV? Or online, from traditional or alternative news magazine
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Well, that was fun! But a fond farewell
Over the past three months, I’ve written extensively about the BC Liberal leadership race and made public my struggles to make the right choices.
First, I wondered if I should join the BC Liberal Party. No other way existed to vote so directly for Bri…
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Well, that was fun! But a fond farewell
Over the past three months, I’ve written extensively about the BC Liberal leadership race and made public my struggles to make the right choices. First, I wondered if I should join the BC Liberal Party. No other way existed to vote so directly for British Columbia’s 35th premier. Therefore, I
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Well, that was fun! But a fond farewell
Over the past three months, I’ve written extensively about the BC Liberal leadership race and made public my struggles to make the right choices. First, I wondered if I should join the BC Liberal Party. No other way existed to vote so directly for British Columbia’s 35th premier. Therefore, I
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: BC Liberal Party Leadership Race – Done
VOTED! As a spanking new member of the BC Liberal Party, I have just voted for the party’s next leader and this province’s 35th Premier. It came down to a matter of choosing among flavours of vanilla, but ultimately the choices were clear given the candidates’ proposed policies. Here’s how
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: BC Liberal Party Leadership Race – Done
VOTED! As a spanking new member of the BC Liberal Party, I have just voted for the party’s next leader and this province’s 35th Premier. It came down to a matter of choosing among flavours of vanilla, but ultimately the choices were clear given the candidates’ proposed policies. Here’s how
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: BC Liberal Party Leadership Race – Done
VOTED!
As a spanking new member of the BC Liberal Party, I have just voted for the party’s next leader and this province’s 35th Premier. It came down to a matter of choosing among flavours of vanilla, but ultimately the choices were clear given the c…
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: BC Liberal Leadership: (Final) Order of preference
The three top issues guiding my decision remain as they have been throughout: Democratic reform. Support for greater independence and return of powers to local governments. We work, play, live and die in communities. Local elected officials are the closest to the people and best positioned to identify their communities’
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: BC Liberal Leadership: (Final) Order of preference
The three top issues guiding my decision remain as they have been throughout:
Democratic reform.
Support for greater independence and return of powers to local governments.
We work, play, live and die in communities. Local elected officials ar…
Challenging the Commonplace: BC Liberal Leadership: (Final) Order of preference
The three top issues guiding my decision remain as they have been throughout: Democratic reform. Support for greater independence and return of powers to local governments. We work, play, live and die in communities. Local elected officials are the closest to the people and best positioned to identify their communities’
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Why Not a Metered Internet?
The headline of the Globe and Mail article asks the question, Why Not a Metered Internet?
The argument that follows defends the big telecoms in terms of market forces: for example, the cost of infrastructure building.
Here’s a different answer to the…
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Why Not a Metered Internet?
The headline of the Globe and Mail article asks the question, Why Not a Metered Internet? The argument that follows defends the big telecoms in terms of market forces: for example, the cost of infrastructure building. Here’s a different answer to the question: with a metered Internet we would have
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Why Not a Metered Internet?
The headline of the Globe and Mail article asks the question, Why Not a Metered Internet? The argument that follows defends the big telecoms in terms of market forces: for example, the cost of infrastructure building. Here’s a different answer to the question: with a metered Internet we would have
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: CRTC, UBB and a Response from my MP
Am glad the CRTC has been ordered to review (read: ‘reverse’) its decision on usage-based Internet billing. But I won’t be happy until the CRTC has gone the way of the dinosaurs, just like the dinosaurs its morphed mandate has been so busy protecting. That aside, I wanted to share
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: CRTC, UBB and a Response from my MP
Am glad the CRTC has been ordered to review (read: ‘reverse’) its decision on usage-based Internet billing. But I won’t be happy until the CRTC has gone the way of the dinosaurs, just like the dinosaurs its morphed mandate has been so busy protecting. That aside, I wanted to share
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: CRTC, UBB and a Response from my MP
Am glad the CRTC has been ordered to review (read: ‘reverse’) its decision on usage-based Internet billing. But I won’t be happy until the CRTC has gone the way of the dinosaurs, just like the dinosaurs its morphed mandate has been so busy protecting.
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Challenging the Commonplace: BC Liberal Leadership – Community Gaming Grants
Non profits throughout British Columbia rely on the province’s Community Gaming Grants program for their funding. For many, it’s their sole source of desperately needed dollars. The important work that these non profits do toward addressing social needs in their communities cannot be overstated. They deliver far more for the
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