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Lack of water data a cause for public concern
In our high-speed digital world, there is no excuse for regulators failing to post and update information that is readily available to them and of…
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About that Copenhagen award
Back in December, during the Copenhagen negotiations, a group of environmentalists provided BC Premier Gordon Campbell with an award for climate leadership. Based primarily on…
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Mischief making by oil and gas industry
Ben Parfitt and I submitted the following letter to the Vancouver Sun yesterday. Hopefully it will run in the next couple days. Here it is:…
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What are we going to do with the oil and gas industry?
That is the question no one seems willing to entertain in this election campaign. In today’s Vancouver Sun, David Collyer of the Canadian Association of…
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BC’s economy and the Liberal platform
With my oped last week on the NDP platform making me less than popular over at NDP HQ, today the Sun published my take on…
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Oh, about that recession …
BC’s recession started in 2008. That is the upshot of today’s release of Statistics Canada’s Provincial Economic Accounts, which provides the first estimates of BC’s…
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The NDP Platform and BC’s Economic Challenges
Below is an oped of mine that was done at the request of the Vancouver Sun and that ran in today’s paper. Unfortunately, for reasons…
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How green are BC’s climate policies?
One of the most striking contradictions in BC’s climate action plan is the oil and gas industry. Greg Amos in The Hook, quotes our “green”…
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BC’s Carbon Tax Clash
With the BC election campaign now officially on, the carbon tax debate is back. Since the fall’s federal election, when the Prime Minister dropped in…
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The wrong kind of stimulus
I am a big fan of stimulus packages for our ailing economy. But my pitch has been that we need to use the occasion to…
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