BC and Montana Sign Land Use Agreement for Flathead River Basin

On February 12th, 2010 the world tuned to BC Place and watched the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Olympics. And since that Friday night, people from all over the world have been watching or if you were lucky enough to have won the ticket lottery, you have been attending Olympic sporting events. Bottom-line, the people [...]

British Columbia Trucking Industry Facing Drastic Cuts to Training Programs

The following email was sent to the Premier Gordon Campbell and other cabinet members (and cc’ed) to us by Randy A. Eckert the President of Saferway Driver Training School Ltd. Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Statistics Canada, Transport Canada, Canadian Trucking Alliance, British Columbia Trucking Association, Ontario Trucking Association, Private Motor Truck Council, Teamsters Canada, Unique Personnel [...]

Premier Campbell; No Increase to BC’s Minimum Wage

Premier Campbell was on CKNW this morning with Bill Good. During that segment Campbell reiterated his belief that the minimum wage in BC does not need to be increased. This was in response to the fact that the minimum wage in Quebec is being increased by fifty cents, the third increase in three years for [...]

BC Liberals Cut Skills Development Employment Benefits Program

At a time when you might think that the BC Liberals would be investing heavily in developing the skills of BC’s workforce, they have instead decided to cut skills training; the Skills Development Employment Benefits program was told to rein in spending on all retraining programs and to cap all tuition funding effective immediately. “The [...]

Olympic screw over for BC

Saw on the news last night that a group of people are outraged because they have been evicted from their rental house, ostensibly because the landlord needs the house for her immediate family’s use. The evicted renters did a little Google work and found that in fact, their former home is up for rent at Olympic-inflated [...]

NDP Convention Elects Moe Sihota as New Party President and…

The New Democrat’s biennial convention has come and gone. Being a political junkie, I was drawn to the convention like a moth is drawn to the brightly burning flame. And like the moth drawn to the flame, I can’t say I got much out of the event. Sure there were policy debates and resolutions were [...]

BC NDP Convention 2009

10:10 AM At the NDP provincial convention in Vancouver. Just had Carole James introduced…audience standing, clapping in unison. Will this last through the debate about the potential leadership review? Introductions of the elected NDP MLAs. Some drawing bigger cheers than others…Carole gets all screetchy trying to speak over the clapping. Burnaby Deer Lake MLA Kathy [...]

Vancouver Opera on the cuts to BC arts

An email received from the Vancouver Opera about the BC Liberals’ cuts BC arts programs: Dear Friends of the Arts, You may have already received this email but it is imperative that we get this message out to as many supporters as possible. Please forward to family and friends. As you know, the arts across British [...]

NFB photo essay on Mackenzie, BC

Recently we received an email from a researcher who works for the National Film Board (NFB) who informed us about a new web documentary series being launched by the NFB called GDP: Measuring the human side of the Canadian economic crisis – http://gdp.nfb.ca. Over the next year the NFB will follow more than a dozen stories [...]

Les Leyne wins City Mike award at Websters

At last night’s Webster Awards the Victoria Times Colonist’s Les Leyne won the City Mike Award. Congrats to him for his win. Interesting to see that the story he covered today was all about the New Democrat MLA Guy Gentner and his hard-working approach to politics. Specifically, Leyne wrote about Gentner putting on a detective hat [...]

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