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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...

topics: councillor, langley, liberal

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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

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Big business groups in B.C. are the NDP's best allies right now. Just when the Liberals thought the anti-HST anger might be fading, six big business associations have got voters riled up again.The groups - the Council of Forest Industries, Mining Ass...

topics: business, election, liberal, liberals, mining

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I can see why Mike Lee is unhappy.Back in 2007, the Vancouver Island man knew he had a gambling problem. He was losing too much money and couldn't stop.So he signed up for B.C. Lotteries' voluntary self-exclusion program. That's supposed to bar you f...

topics: crime, technology

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Maybe Stephen Harper, in his heart, has mixed feelings about being in power. Perhaps he fears it means he has sold out.That's one explanation for the Conservative government's bizarre decision to turn the census into some sort of do-or-die issue.The ...

topics: business, economy, unions

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Sometimes you have to call people on the rubbish they speak. The B.C. Lottery Corp. scandal is one of those times.Start with Michael Graydon, the $300,000-a-year CEO. After the news broke that the Crown corporation had been fined $670,000 under feder...

topics: crime, housing, liberals

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The Canadian Forces Pacific base is in Esquimalt and the capital region. It owns about 41 square kilometres, worth some $3 billion. Why not move the Pacific Fleet Base to Prince Rupert, asks Bernard von Schulmann.The federal government could sell mo...

topics: canadian-forces, federal-government, housing

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Another milestone. B.C. is now the best place on Earth, or at least in North America, to lose serious money gambling in your own home. Drunk, desperate, addicted, the B.C. government is giving every citizen the chance to lose more than $500,000 a yea...

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Back in February, the throne speech announced a ban on mining and oil and gas exploration in the East Kootenay Flathead Valley.That was a big deal for people living across the border in Montana. The Flathead flows into the state and is an important r...

topics: mining, oil-and-gas, premier, provincial-government

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A good editorial in the Times Colonist today on Ida Chong's big meal-expense claims, the NDP's refusal even to reveal how much its MLAs claim under the capital city allowance and Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett's substitution of abuse for disc...