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Keith Reynolds
Keith Reynolds is the former National Research Representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees. He has done policy work for all three levels of government. His areas of expertise include privatization, P3s, and municipal government and finance. Follow Keith on Twitter
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Denham goes to Britain – and takes some BC freedom of information issues with her
Elizabeth Denham—British Columbia’s former Information and Privacy Commissioner, who aggressively pushed freedom of information and privacy issues here—is now doing a similar job in the United…
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A little-known election is limiting your free expression rights
You might not have noticed it, but since June 4th there has been an election going on in British Columbia – and legislation that governs…
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The international trend to public energy
The most Canadians probably know about the new mayor of London, England is that he is the city’s first Muslim mayor and that one of…
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Access to information in BC is about to improve. Except there’s just this one little catch.
There was a fair amount of good news about Freedom of Information rules and a little bit of bad news last month. But the bad…
In Edinburgh, the public private partnership walls are falling. Seriously. Walls are falling.
If 17 schools were closed in Vancouver, or Edmonton or Regina, because parts of them were at risk of falling down and injuring children, do…
Why not put some Metro Vancouver property transfer tax into infrastructure?
When it comes to revenue for the provincial government from property taxes in British Columbia, Metro Vancouver is such a cash cow we should be…
Budget 2016: less money collected as taxes and spent on health and education
For me, the most interesting part of British Columbia’s Budgets are always at the back of the 134 page Budget and Fiscal Plan document. Buried…
Changes to FOI law a chance for the BC legislature to improve trust in government
Every six years the BC legislature reviews the provisions of the province’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and makes recommendations for changes. …
Province’s bump in home owner grant threshold is not the good deal suggested, especially for Metro Vancouver home owners
This week British Columbia’s provincial Finance Minister announced a $100,000 (9.1%) increase in the threshold for the province’s homeowner grant raising it to $1.2 million.…
Will proposed new Senators be an aristocracy of the distinguished?
Ruth Ellen Brosseau is a Member of Parliament against the odds. A single mother and the assistant manager of a pub, she was elected in…
The diminishing of access to government information – and some things to do about it
Freedom of Information legislation (FOI), or Access to Information (ATI) as it is known at the federal level in Canada, was a pretty important addition…