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What the FCUCC?!
More on the culture of entitlement… Mark Godley is the founder and head honcho of False Creek Surgical Clinic, one of the largest companies in…
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School ranking: public shaming with a statistical veneer
By printing the Fraser Institute rankings of elementary schools the Vancouver Sun gives unwarranted attention and a gloss of respectability to a cynical attempt to…
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Getting in Hot Water: A Lesson in Climate Subsidies
My hot water tank blew out just before Christmas. I had no idea, just went down to the crawlspace to get some wrapping paper and…
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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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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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BC blinks on running a deficit
Now that the federal budget is over, I’ve been girding myself for the Feb 17 BC budget. My concern to date has been bold statements…
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