Kevin Falcon, believed to be a leading contender to replace Premier re-signate Campbell, has come forth with what can only be describe as the most arcane and idiotic of suggestions: a profit motive for better teaching. Here’s the skinny from the hors…
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Challenging the Commonplace: UPDATE Jan 4/11: BC Liberal Leadership – Order of preference
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It’s early days yet in the BC Liberal leadership race, but it appears there will be only the five contenders who have already declared – although a BC Liberal in good standing could run for leader as late as 13 days before the leaders…
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Of Decades Past and Future
As 2010 comes to a close, my hope for the coming decade is for an overhauled Canadian Parliament and similar changes to the BC Legislative Assembly. I doubt anything substantive will change in terms of policy or direction – for this country, this provi…
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Simplistic Interpretation of Female Support Shift
I take exception to Keith Baldrey’s simplistic interpretation of why female voters will play a key role in the next BC election – not that they will, but why their support may be shifting from the NDP to the Liberals.
According to Baldrey (chief political reporter for Global BC – oh dear!), one of the pillars pushing women’s support away from the NDP is "the brutal take-down of a female leader…
Continue readingVoting Age
I must admit that when the BC Liberal Leadership Race started, I didn’t think it would lead to a discussion of the voting age. Nor did I expect to find myself so annoyed by those who oppose the idea of lowering the voting age.
(Full Disclosure: I am…
Continue readingBC Liberals outflank NDP on HST – get their Mojo back
That’s what I said. The Liberals out manoeuvred the NDP by tricking the NDP MLA’s to support the notion of the province-wide referendum in 2011. In one fell swoop, the Liberals moved the HST off the front burner and upstaged the NDP. By moving to a…
Continue readingOpen letter to the NDP
Given the state of affairs in BC right now, if I was a betting man, I’d bet on the NDP not just winning the next election, but betting the BC Liberals lose official party status too. The next BC legislature would probably have a landslide NDP governm…
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