As this Globe and Mail article points out (with a few inaccuracies, like 28% being the “lowest” poll number for the BC Liberals since Clark took office – that’s actually 23%), this Angus Reid poll isn’t good news for Premier Clark, who is now not only facing a vote split
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Blunt Objects: Can the BC NDP Actually Win Chilliwack-Hope?
According, at least, to the Globe and Mail, they’ve got the momentum: For the first time in memory, political observers believe the NDP may have a chance of winning in Chilliwack. Certainly, Gwen O’Mahony, who won the nomination this weekend, will not be going into this by-election like NDP candidates
Continue readingChristy, what are you thinking? BC Liberals hire Harper aide and Enbridge lobbyist Ken Boessenkool as chief of staff.
If you ever wanted to know which side of the political spectrum the BC ‘Liberals’ fall, it’s pretty obvious by now it’s neither centre nor left. When a supposed centre-left political party hires a lobbyist whose previous tenure involved working as senior policy advisor and strategist to Stephen Harper and lobbying for Enbridge and Suncor,
Continue readingChristy, what are you thinking? BC Liberals hire Harper aide and Enbridge lobbyist Ken Boessenkool as chief of staff.
If you ever wanted to know which side of the political spectrum the BC ‘Liberals’ fall, it’s pretty obvious by now it’s neither centre nor left. When a supposed centre-left political party hires a lobbyist whose previous tenure involved working as senior policy advisor and strategist to Stephen Harper and lobbying
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Quickie BC projection
Teddy here. I’ve been working on an updated projection table for British Columbia, using data from past provincial elections where a party has existed to the right of the BCLiberals. I’d like some feedback on the projection that I have here, in map form. Note that I’m still trying to
Continue readingI see the BC Liberals have learned from Harper’s Ignatieff attack ads
Watching the Canucks. Ad comes on real slick-like. I mean Conservative slick. It’s a BC Liberals ad attacking NDP’s Adrian Dix. I swear the ad could’ve been made by the Cons. It looks and sounds exactly like any of the many Ignatieff attack ads. Oh, here it comes again. And
Continue readingI see the BC Liberals have learned from Harper’s Ignatieff attack ads
Watching the Canucks. Ad comes on real slick-like. I mean Conservative slick. It’s a BC Liberals ad attacking NDP’s Adrian Dix. I swear the ad could’ve been made by the Cons. It looks and sounds exactly like any of the many Ignatieff attack ads. Oh, here it comes again. And
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Is This Actually BC? Part Deux
Thanks to commenter bobljeffries who pointed me in the direction of this NRG Research poll conducted just awhile back, after the Forum poll, which gave these numbers: 36% BC NDP32% BC Liberal19% BC Conservative13% “Other”They also give a wrongly colour-coded chart which breaks down the numbers for three regions of
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Is This Actually BC? Eh?
I know the news is now somewhat old, but there was a funky Forum Research poll out on December 15th that showed the situation in British Columbia is a whole lot more complicated than first glance. The numbers show:34% BC NDP23% BC Liberal23% BC Conservative15% Green Wha… who… huh? That’s
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Help for the CBC on conflicts of interest
Regular readers will be aware that I filed a complaint with CBC Ombudsman Kirk Lapointe over the conflict involving Legislative Bureau Chief Stephen Smart, husband of Rebecca Scott who holds the position of Communications Officer and Deputy Press Secretary for Premier Clark, a relatively senior OIC political appointment. Lapointe referred
Continue readingSurvey: BC Liberals under Christy Clark slipping. NDP holding strong. Cons gaining on Libs.
‘Cannibal’ John Cummins takes the news cycle (Postmedia version) The big news in BC is the current dominance of the NDP in a new poll, which puts the party at 34 percent support. The Liberals and the Conservatives are split at 23 percent. Of course that would be the big
Continue readingWelcome to Harperland
How we embraced hate. I was watching the CBC News this morning, Suhana Meharchand was the host. Talking about Attawapiskat, she interviewed NDP/MP Charlie Angus. Hostilely, she asked him, “What would you do if you were Minister? Throw money at the problem?” His reply showed unflappable professionalism, indicating that he
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Oh, not to be in England
British Columbia pays senior public servants among the highest salaries in the world. For comparison the British pound (£) is worth $1.60 CAN as of December 12, 2011. Britain’s Top Earning Civil Servants (function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: A simple truth
For British Columbia Liberals, the BC Rail/Basi/Virk story is like a slow growing cancer. Left unresolved, it is metastasizing, nudging the afflicted party toward an inevitable conclusion. I’ve tried to understand why Liberals, or at least ethical members within the party, have not demanded an end to this distress through
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: REPLAY: About BC politics (Oct 24, 2010)
Vancouver Sun writers and many mainstream colleagues refuse to pose difficult questions to their BC Liberal friends, instead preferring the approach of Sergeant Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes, “I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!”
Gabriel Yu…
Continue readingCummins, BC Conservatives wrong on gas tax opposition
#bcpoli #bcndp #bcliberals #christyclark #adriandix
Upstart leader of the BC Conservatives, John Cummins is completely misguided on his and his party’s opposition to the 2 cent per litre gas. I understand that he is looking for a cheap wedge issue to …
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: BC Municipalities already audited
News item, September 29, 2011
“Municipal politicians voted overwhelmingly Thursday to tell the provincial government they don’t want a Municipal Auditor-General’s office…
“The local politicians said they’re already prohibited from running deficits…
Continue readingTea Party in Ontario? Big deal, it’s been bubbling under the surface in BC for ages.
The BC Conservative party gets a big hug from the Vancouver Sun but it cannot escape the perception that it is an outdated evangelical soup of wingnuts. I guess it has to be so extreme, considering how conservative the BC Liberal party has become.Anoth…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: For service with distinction, to BC Liberals
The fatally flawed Order of British Columbia must be scrapped. Rushing to aggrandize themselves and their own financial backers, BC Liberals destroyed the award’s intended essence. It was supposed to recognize:
“those persons who have served…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Bizarro World BC
Because where else can you find a provincial Liberal Party attacking the leader of the Conservative Party – for not being conservative enough!?Granted, the BC Liberals are not your standard definition of “liberal,” but are instead a coalition of libera…
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