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No matter how much Finance Minister Colin Hansen and Premier Gordon Campbell protest, few British Columbians will believe their claims the harmonized sales tax was not on our radar in advance of the May 2009 election.The latest blow comes from ...

topics: business, elected, election, federal-government, liberal

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Check the websites for the major media this afternoon - the Times Colonist, Sun, Province, Globe and Mail, CBC - and you'll find coverage of documents released under FOI which challenge the Liberals' claims that the HST was not on the radar before ...

topics: election, liberals, tax

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The provincial auditor general and the government are in a tussle, again, over the way more than $440 million in annual subsidies to the oil and gas industry are being handled.It's tough to get people interested in accounting issues (until their RRSP...

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Ernie Crey's sister was murdered after Robert Pickton should have been caught.He wants an independent inquiry. And he doesn't want the government to control the questions the inquiry asks or how it is structured. Should it all fall to the government ...

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Alberta's oilsands - and its government - are about to become a big problem for B.C.Advocacy groups have targeted the energy megaprojects, pointing to environmental destruction and the big greenhouse-gas emissions involved in getting the sticky oil o...

topics: emissions, environment, environmental, greenhouse-gas, liberal

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Good Times Colonist column here on the latest wrinkle in the Conservatives' get tough on crime plans.Running a bawdy house is now punishable by a sentence of up to two years; the government plans to impose a five-year minimum jail term.Jody Paterso...

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Bob Cooper is a retired Vancouver police officer who walked a beat, worked in the Asian organized crime section and the homicide squad.He is not much optimistic about the promise of a review of the Pickton investigation promised by acting solicitor g...

topics: crime, investigation, liberal, political, premier

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The Vancouver Police Department's internal review of the Robert Pickton investigation is grim reading.Deputy chief Greg LePard sets out - over 400-plus pages - an unblinking look at the failures, mistakes and conflicts that allowed Pickton to keep on...

topics: coquitlam, crime, investigation, mayor, west-vancouver

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Jordan Bateman is a Langley Township councillor and active Liberal party member. (He's president of Rich Coleman's riding association.)So his suggestion that Gordon Campbell will announce his departure soon perhaps before the party's November con...

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The big business attempt to derail the anti-HST initiative was an amazing bungle.The six business associations made things worse for the Liberals by launching the last-minute legal challenge to the petition signed by some 705,000 British Columbians. ...

topics: business, election, federal-government, kamloops, liberal