New Consequences for Excessive Speed Introduced

I was listening to the radio the other day and I heard the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles talking about the new consequences for driving a motor vehicle at excessive speed. One of the consequences he mentioned was that if you are pulled over for driving at more than forty kilometres an hour over the legal [...]

Translink Musing About New Pattullo Bridge by 2015

Just a quicky this morning; Translink is publicly musing about having a replacement for the 74 year old Pattullo Bridge completed by 2015 or 16. The estimated cost of the replacement structure is around a billion dollars. You have to wonder where Translink is going to find a billion dollars to build another bridge when [...]

Bureaucrat’s Discussions of HST May Lead to Colin Hansen’s Resignation

Imagine it is 1996. Premier (and Finance Minister) Glen Clark, announces days after his re-election that in spite of saying during the election campaign that it was not on his government’s radar, his government is now going to harmonize the provincial sales tax with the federal GST. A couple of months after the howls of [...]

Fight-HST Battle to Rage on for Many, Many Months

Ben Franklin oh-so accurately said, “‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” And that seems to be the case for British Columbians and the much despised HST. The provincial NDP have made no indication that in the event of them being the victors in an election would they [...]

Fight-HST Petition Allowed to Proceed

The Fight-HST citizens petition will move forward; the courts have ruled that the Fight-HST petition is completely legal and must be acted upon immediately. Interesting to see what Premier Campbell will do next in his fight against the Fight-HST petition. His pattern of behaviour in the past has been to dismantle organizations that stand in [...]

Premier Campbell Meets with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Star of Total Recall

After hearing the news that the proponents of the stop the HST petition were going to begin a total recall campaign in November of this year, Premier Campbell almost immediately flew down to the state of California to meet with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (also the star of the movie Total Recall). As you can see [...]

Contact Info for Craig James, Acting Chief Electoral Officer

Fellow blogger and recall supporters, Recall in the Fall, have posted the contact information for Craig James, the Chief Electoral Officer of BC. We have reposted Craig James ‘ contact information just in case you are one of the more than 700,000 British Columbians who signed the petition to stop the HST and you are [...]

HST Petition “Succeeds”

The Fight-HST petition has “succeeded.” What does that success look like? The petitioners gathered more than 10% of registered voters in every riding in BC. That is it. Does the petition force the Campbell Liberals to do anything? No. Nothing. What will happen with this petition? Basically nothing in the legislature. However, it will add [...]

Five Questions with Rafe Mair

We are beginning a new feature here on The Left Coast; it is titled, Five Questions with…” And as the title implies, it will involve five questions. Who will the the five questions be with? Primarily a variety of politicos from in and around BC. Our first “Five Questions with…” are with Rafe Mair, the former Social [...]

Sinister Financial Vectors at BC Hydro

The following information came to us from Erik Andersen, through the indefatigable Rafe Mair. This information is interesting in that it gives some insight into the direction that the Campbell administration is taking BC Hydro. A “vector” gives information as to direction and the magnitude of a changing position. A series of financial statements can also [...]

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