Vancouver Teachers Advised of Possible Layoffs

News release from Mike Lombardi, Trustee, Vancouver Board of Education: Vancouver, B.C. – (January 19, 2010) – Eight hundred teachers in the Vancouver school district will be receiving letters today advising them of possible layoffs and requesting they update their qualifications on file with the Vancouver School Board. The letter is not a layoff notice [...]

Minister Stockwell Day Visits Vancouver and brings “iPods” for All

Yesterday I attended a press conference hosted by the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, along with Vancouver Deputy Mayor George Chow. They brought a ragtag group of media sorts out to the Pan Pacific Hotel in order to announce that the federal government and the city of [...]

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’s Climate Change Inaction

While speaking at a governors’ and premiers’ panel at the Climate Conference in Copenhagen yesterday, Gordon Campbell failed to explain the BC Liberals’ controversial environmental record. The controversial part? Consider the following aspects of the Campbell “green agenda”: Campbell’s government has promoted the Gateway-Port Mann twinning project; a project that encourages more suburban sprawl and [...]

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 [...]

Easter Island heads

These edifices were carved and erected by a society in honour of their sacred leaders. Historically the island has experienced a collapse of its ecosystem, with extinction of many of its prehistoric species; these events were associated with over-exploitation of the island’s resources.

BC Liberals continue going for the taxpayers’ gold

In an effort to continue their quest for the gold, the gold of the BC taxpayer that is, the BC Liberals have purchased box suites at GM Place and the Pacific Coliseum for the use of MLAs and cabinet ministers during the 29010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. The cost of these tickets is estimated [...]

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