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Christy Clark, George Abbott – meet Jeffrey Moore
There’s a freight train heading for BC’s education system — and it’s not being driven by government or teachers. This train hit the tracks long…
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TransLink Funding and Governance (Yet Again)
I always smile when I think of the provincial negotiator Peter Cameron’s comments when we were wrapping up the final details in the transit funding…
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A toxic spill and communications chill
So here’s the little that we know about a pipeline break that occurred more than half a year ago and that British Columbia’s Oil and…
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Slim pickin’s for BC’s children and youth in budget
Just in case anyone missed just how bad BC’s new budget is for the province’s children and youth, I thought I’d post First Call’s reaction…
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BC isn’t broke: putting teacher bargaining in perspective
Last Monday, BC teachers held a Day of Action in communities across the province to protest the BC government’s decision to legislate a contract and…
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Local living wage employer wins best employer award
Hats off to Eclipse Awards, a local small business that was one of the first to seek certification as an official Living Wage Employer. At…
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The long term costs of legislating workers back to work
As the provincial government spends the weekend drafting back-to-work legislation that will impose a contract on BC teachers, I found this opinion piece I wrote…
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The Great Natural Gas Footrace: Where Have We Seen This Before?
Several weeks ago, some running buddies of mine – two fine chaps working in the provincial civil service – invited me to speak on a…
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The false economy of BC Budget 2012: deficit exaggerated to avoid spending on real problems
Today’s BC budget was simply titled Budget 2012. It broke with the tradition of ambitious-sounding titles we’ve seen in the last decade (such as 2010’s…
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“Mass staff replacements” in seniors’ care: impacts and solutions
Deep in the second volume of the BC Ombudsperson’s recently-released second report on seniors’ care, is an interesting and important discussion about large-scale staff replacements and…
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Tax haven based company buys more BC P3s: British Auditor General questions profits in such transactions
Two of British Columbia’s public private partnership (P3) projects have changed hands again and once again the new owner resides in a European tax haven.…
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Whatever happened to gender identity and expression?
A year ago this week, Bill C-389, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression),…
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