Here is Iglika Ivanova’s look at the BC Liberals economic rationale. The disconnect between economic growth and teachers’ wages We are being governed by an anti public education Premier Christy Clark, who it seems has embraced her pique at being caught cheating in SFU Student elections.
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Left Over: School is Out, Do the Teachers Get Ready?
B.C. teachers’ strike: government agrees to Vince Ready as mediator Teachers have been calling for a mediated solution to their strike since Thursday CBC News Posted: Jun 20, 2014 2:58 PM PT Last Updated: Jun 20, 2014 7:13 PM PT A four year bachelor’s university degree, or a Master’s Degree for
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The BC Liberal Government Is Foolishly Moving To Allow Fracking On Farmland-Videos
Long time Cowichan activist Bill Woollam has offered this guest post critical of fracking and David Black’s refinery proposal. Bill has his own blog that covers wide-ranging issues. It can be found here. Bill Woollam Guest Post I recently wrote to David Black, newspaper owner/manager, in response to his support
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Ignorance occasionally has a purpose
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.” If you’re older than 30, you remember the nineties. Hard times, according to Milton Friedman, were produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Money laundering and casinos, who knew?
CTV Vancouver: Money laundering rampant in casinos, April 10, 2014 “Confidential documents are shedding light on a host of suspicious behaviour at B.C. casinos, where patrons routinely carry bags loaded with small bills onto the gaming floor. “Government reports obtained by CTV News highlight dozens of instances of suspected money
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Exploding BC LNG Myths – Part One
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor In this post Kevin zones in on BC Liberal Government claims of prosperity ahead. Recently the BC Government published an online quiz to “test the knowledge” of British Columbians on the coming LNG revolution. It amounted to a propaganda exercise with the sole purpose of testing how well the BC
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: If Chong’s Reform Act were in place in BC, would Adrian Dix be Premier today?
Lots of the debate around Michael Chong’s proposed Reform Act to, among other things, allow a federal parliamentary caucus to fire the party leader, has taken place in the abstract. We need to do something, it’s better than nothing, you’re with reform or you’re with the terrorists, and so forth.
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Consumers targeted by BC Liberals
Governments prefer indirect taxation partly because politicians assume they’ll take less heat if hands of tax collectors slip into our pockets surreptitiously. That’s done in BC by instructing crown corporations to overcharge customers and transfer surpluses to the public treasury. This allows BC Liberals to make a claim like one
Continue readingLeft Over: Vancouver Island: A New Provincial Idea…
Vancouver Island To Be A Province If Separatists Get Their Way The Huffington Post Canada | Posted: 08/06/2013 2:43 pm EDT http://viprovince.ca/ I have often spoken and written about Vancouver Island becoming it’s own province, and now someone is doing something concrete about it.. I have links, below, to both the Federal and
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: It is Time for the BC NDP to Clean House. No More Reviews are Needed.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I have been a member of the BC NDP since the early 70′s. Like so many others I have been on a full tour of duty including a ‘Mission Impossible’ run to be the Malahat Juan de Fuca MLA back in 2001. Today we face yet another
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver Changes Colours-Green Mixed with Red Makes Brown
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Andrew Weaver is not wasting much time putting his oar in the water. As the only and BC’s first Green MLA he is under a lot of pressure. I wish him every success pushing both the Liberals and the NDP into greener pastures. Some of
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Josh Fox on Gasland Part 2, the Fracking-Earthquake Link & the Natural Gas Industry’s Use of PSYOPs
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger When Gasland first hit for many it was an early wake up call. Nominated for an Academy award Jeff Fox blew the lid of the dangerous risks and terrible damages done by fracking for natural gas. The same threats face BC residents as the BC Liberal government
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC New Democrats Have Lost Their Swagger and Don’t Know Where to Find It.
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger OK so the BC Election is over and we can get back to normal, sort of, but let’s face it folks we are in for a rough ride. What a mess we are facing politically. The BC NDP has lost its way. They have distanced
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Answer to the BC Election is No!
Jerry West Jerry West is the Publisher, Editor and Janitor of the Gold River Record. He is also a regular contributor to Rabble.ca. Here is his wind up look at what happened in the May 14th Provincial Election, what will not happen as a result and a little bit of
Continue readingLeft Over: Dazed & Confused, Depressed & Not Amused….
By now the entire country knows what happened here in BC…the re-election of the Provincial Liberals (or Con-Lites) …to say that I am depressed is to state the case in an all-too delicate way. If I can derive any tiny bit of satisfaction from the election, it is that… a)
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: BC – NDP Lose The Election, But The Liberals Lose Their Leader
Christy Clark may have led her party to a stunning upset against all predictions, but she lost her own seat to the NDP’s David Eby. Elections BC: Vancouver-Point Grey results. My two cents on why the NDP lost: Conservative party support swung to the Liberals to stop the NDP, and
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: BC – NDP Lose The Election, But The Liberals Lose Their Leader
Christy Clark may have led her party to a stunning upset against all predictions, but she lost her own seat to the NDP’s David Eby.Elections BC: Vancouver-Point Grey results.My two cents on why the NDP lost: Conservative party support swung to the Libe…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: BC – NDP Lose The Election, But The Liberals Lose Their Leader
Christy Clark may have led her party to a stunning upset against all predictions, but she lost her own seat to the NDP’s David Eby. Elections BC: Vancouver-Point Grey results. My two cents on why the NDP lost: Conservative party support swung to the Liberals to stop the NDP, and
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: BC Liberals Advertising for the Greens in Victoria!
Vote Green! Brought to you by the BC Liberals I was tooling around on Facebook this morning, and some of my Green Party of BC FaceBook friends were talking about this full-page advertisement for Jane Sterk and the BC Greens in the Times Colony. You know, one of the most
Continue readingNorthern Insight: “Valuable Consideration Mutually Given and Received”
This item is written by a regular Northern Insight reader who I’ve known for years. He’s done business regularly with the BC Government but in recent years, it’s been a problematic relationship because he has refused all exactions issued by the “Pay to Play” BC Liberals. For that refusal, his
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