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 [...]

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 [...]

The BC Liberal Index, Fall 2009

 B.C. LIBERAL INDEX Fall 2009 With apologies to HARPER’S Amount consumers will have to fork over for the HST: $1.9 billion Tourism jobs that will be lost due to the HST: 10,000 Restaurant industry jobs that will be lost due to the HST: 12,000 Number of HST-free Christmases left: 1, unless we stop the HST [...]

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 [...]

Fraser Health cancelling surgeries in favour of imported patients?

The other day we were sitting around the Editorial Board Table pondering the news that the BC Liberals underfunding of health-care in the Fraser Health region (or whatever they call it this week) was forcing the Fraser Health Authority to cancel “elective” surgeries and close operating rooms. The point made at our table was that [...]

Latest Campbell cuts

In response to the latest cuts that the Campbell Liberals are inflicting on BC, beleaguered literary organizations are forming the Coalition for the Defence of Writing and Publishing in British Columbia. This comes one day after the Arts & Culture branch of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture & the Arts (Hon. Kevin Krueger) simultaneously removed all funding from [...]