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Massey Bridge P3 borrowing costs yet another problem
As more information becomes available about the controversial $3.5-billion, 10-lane Massey Bridge project, concern about the project increases. Issues had already been raised about the cost…
CETA: A significant shift from democratic governance
Imagine a far-off dystopia when foreign corporations are given the same status as citizens in public hearings. When the overriding priority for government in issuing…
Penticton’s peculiar policy on freedom of information
This is International Right to Know Week, a week in honour of the public’s right to information held by their governments. The week is being…
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…
Privatizing public infrastructure is enormously costly. Let’s not repeat the mistake.
An announcement is expected next week on a plan for the long-awaited Victoria wastewater treatment plant, which has been the subject of ongoing controversy about…
Fracking, earthquakes and hydro dams? Don’t worry. We have an understanding.
This is the second of two posts. Read the first here. Efforts by BC Hydro to ban potentially destructive natural gas company fracking operations in…
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…
New look, same nerds.
Hello readers and followers! As you can see, we have a brand new look thanks to our fine friends at Affinity Bridge. We had two…
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…
The unintended consequences of massive hydro rate increases
The Province newspaper recently published an op-ed of mine that looked at one of the unintended consequences of our provincial government’s fixation on building the…
Site C’s biggest beneficiary? Natural gas companies, not us.
This post originally appeared on DeSmog Canada. On January 20, BC Hydro issued a press release singing the praises of a new hydro transmission line…
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. …