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The culture of entitlement
Don Copeman, of the infamous Vancouver clinic that bears his name, was plugging his business in Parksville’s local paper, the Oceanside Star. While doing so…
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The biggest forest crisis? A lack of imagination.
Everywhere you turn it’s bleak news for BC’s forest economy. Sawmills and pulp mills shuttered left and right, and a provincial government whose lame response…
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About that unemployment rate
A couple days ago I was musing about big job losses on the horizon. Today, there is good news and bad news. The good news…
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Love Those Deficits
As noted by Vaughn Palmer in the Vancouver Sun, it seems that all the political parties will benefit from Premier Campbell’s recent conversion to deficit…
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No full-time kindergarten this year
Kindergarten expansion in BC has officially been postponed to the indefinite future, reports Janet Steffenhagen on the Vancouver Sun’s education blog Report Card today, referring…
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Feed People First
How biofuels are contributing to global food shortages and price increases Download 212.25 KB10 pages
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End subsidies to biofuel industry, think tank urges
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Canada’s federal and provincial governments should end their subsidies to the biofuel industry, says a new report by…
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The time is now for a legislated poverty reduction plan
200 community organizations & leaders to BC political parties CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT On February 5, the CCPA’s BC Office joined with…
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Climate policy: contradiction #2
Speaking of BC climate policy contradictions that desperately need to be addressed (like I was doing here), wrap your head around this: our current policy…
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This is gonna hurt
Housing has been one of the major drivers of the BC economy in recent years. Low interest rates led to rising home prices and a…
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Climate policy: contradiction #1
I don’t know if BC’s current approach to climate change is ironic, paradoxical, or just plain crazy, but whatever it is, it is desperately in…
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