Rafe: With fracking, tankers “world-class safety” is a weasel word
It is great to read more from Rafe Mair once again. He is still on the mend but has come a long way and is reading and writing once again. I had believed every word Read more...
View ArticleHarper, BC Tory MPs have oil on their hands from English Bay spill
It is when events like the recent bunker oil spill in English Bay take place that the value of independent writers, thinkers, and bloggers like Rafe Mair display their real value. Here is Rafe’s Read...
View ArticleVideo: Conversations that Matter with John Horgan
Stuart McNish interviews BC NDP leader John Horgan carried in the Vancouver Sun (Video) NDP John Horgan says, “everyone’s a New Democrat they just don’t know it yet”. Horgan talks about everything from...
View ArticleAn Anatomy of a Water Win
Dara Quast On March 21, 2016, a Supreme Court ruling confirmed the Cowichan Valley’s Regional District’s authority regarding permitted land use. Contaminated soil will cease to be dumped into the...
View ArticleThe BC NDP’s so called ‘Gender Equity Mandate’ is an ‘Orwellian Distortion.’
Originally published in the Duncan Free Press. We are soon approaching the ‘Silly Season’ in political circles throughout British Columbia. We will go to the polls in May 2017 but in many cases, the...
View ArticleThe NDP’s LNG dithering and insistence on housing becoming the election...
The BC liberals offer a target rich environment the NDP could readily attack, based entirely on their dreadful governing record, which would work to move votes into their column and out of the BC...
View ArticleCowichan BC NDP Candidate Controversy — Dwaine Martin-Georgia Collins-Updated...
Independent Blogger The controversial dust-up in the Cowichan BC NDP constituency saw aspiring would be NDP MLA Georgia Collins step away from seeking the nomination to replace incumbent MLA Bill...
View ArticleGeorgia Collins Latest Facebook Shot At The BC NDP
Independent Blogger The BC NDP have mishandled candidate hopeful Georgia Collins nomination efforts and the sexism and harassment complaint filed under the party guidlines. The BC NDP’s President Craig...
View ArticleCowichan BC NDP President Ian Morrison Bails -Says He Will Run As Independent
The Cowichan BC NDP has been blind-sided by Ian Morrison, their former President. Ian Morrison Ian had been elected as president in the important lead-up to the 2017 provincial election. Now he has...
View ArticleOpen letter from former NDP MLA’s re cooperation of NDP and Green Party
A group of former NDP MLA’s, Jim Beatty, Corky Evans, Tom Perry, Joan Sawicki and David Zirneldt have called upon the BC Greens and BC NDP to cooperate and bring in the many changes Read more...
View ArticleIn BC, at least one certainty: Political leverage is fleeting
BOB RAE Special to The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, May 25, 2017 Bob Rae is senior partner at Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP, teaches public policy and law at the University Read more...
View ArticleNDP AND GREENS PROMISE ELECTORAL REFORM REFERENDUM, BIG MONEY BAN AND HIGHER...
Agreement details how parties will cooperate. By Andrew MacLeod Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria and the author of A Better Place on Earth: The Search for Read...
View ArticleThe people and the resources of BC have been fooled again.
The people and the resources of BC have been fooled again. BC was born with the most lush and extensive Temperate Rainforest in the world. Through our own terrible management, today we are Read more...
View ArticleBC Greens Eclipsing The BC Liberals And BC NDP Over Covid-19 Issues
BC Greens call for stricter measures on COVID-19 For immediate release April 8th, 2021 VICTORIA, B.C. – Since the beginning of April, more than 6,000 British Columbians have tested positive with...
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