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Watch out for that train
Is it too early to start talking about what happens now the election is over? Because that light at the end of the tunnel really…
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Yet another case of our government delaying the release of important data
Less than a week after BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) report raised serious questions about secrecy in government (see Keith’s comments here),…
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Bike to Work Week and our transportation culture
Pouring rain marked the start of Vancouver’s Bike to Work Week (May 11 – 17) this year, but those who braved the weather conditions are…
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Where’s Our Danny Boy (2)? Mayor of embattled town weighs in on needed forest reforms
Few British Columbia communities have been hit as hard by the forest industry crisis as Mackenzie. Some 1,500 jobs, by mayor Stephanie Killam’s estimate, have…
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Planet Before Politics
I signed the following open letter published in the Globe on the weekend. I cannot take any credit for organizing or writing the letter (hat…
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Towards an effective and fair carbon reduction strategy
This oped appeared in the Vancouver Sun’s online edition: Towards an effective and fair carbon reduction strategy By George Heyman and Dr. Colin Campbell, May…
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Report finds government stonewalling on FOI requests
BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) released a report yesterday showing secrecy in government is even a bigger problem that we thought. A…
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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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BC government should heed its own report on childcare
Do you remember the 2008 Throne Speech in which the provincial government launched a feasibility study on providing full day kindergarten for 5 year-olds and…
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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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Why young children’s education and care are not priorities in this election
It seems clear that policy-makers in this province (and country, for that matter) are not prepared to invest in a quality early education and childcare…
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Poverty reduction and the party platforms
The CCPA is a member of the BC Poverty Reduction Committee, the network that has been pressing all the BC political parties to commit to…
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