aggregated from: Vancouverite

Hey there H1N1 vaccine fans, if you aren't high risk, you aren't getting the delicious vaccine. Government health officials will be patrolling the lines to ensure only high priority people get it. What is this, a 1960's bread line in Russia? Get used...

topics: cope, health-care

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

The amount of coverage that Martin Crilly s report got surprised me. After all it was not as if he was saying something new, or that anyone was bound to act upon his recommendations. The only substantive issue covered was would he approve next year s...

topics: cope, downtown, political, provincial-government, tax

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

gavel.jpg The US Chamber of Commerce filed papers this week in Federal Court seeking to put climate science on trial” - based on many of the same arguments that have been making the rounds for ...

topics: agriculture, climate-change, cope, environment, global-warming

aggregated from: theleftcoast.ca

One has to wonder if the Suzuki Foundation and Tzeporah Berman are still as pleased with the BC Liberals in this post-election world. If you recall, the Suzuki Foundation, along with Tzeporah Berman of PowerUP Canada were effusive in their support of...

topics: cope, election, liberals, suzuki-foundation

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Wayne Moriarty, the Editor in Chief of the Province decided this week to have a go at the regular Critcal Mass ride in downtown Vancouver. The coverage was extensive and wildly biased and topped off with an extra-ordinary piece of vilification of c...

topics: cope, downtown

aggregated from: Langley Politics Dotcom

Over the next five or six posts, I'm going to profile some of the Mayors of Langley Township who have inspired me, got me thinking, or who I feel shaped this community in a strong way. I have known some of them personally, while others passed away lo...

topics: cope, election, langley, mayor, new-westminster

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

As regular readers here will know I get quite a bit of content for this blog out of attending the public lectures put on by the City program at SFU downtown. One event I missed was a debate between Gordon Price, director of that program, and Seattle ...

topics: burnaby, coal-harbour, cope, developers, downtown

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Gabriel YiuShortly after the election was finished, even before the elected candidates were sworn in, local economists pointed out that the BC 2009/2010 budget deficit would be four times what Gordon Campbell had declared.As my commentary published i...

topics: cope, economy, elected, election, forestry

aggregated from: Paying attention

Governing must be harder than it looks from the outside.Back in 1996, then opposition leader Gordon Campbell said the New Democrat's 18-person cabinet was way too big - bloated, expensive and out of touch. The Liberal platform promised no more than 1...

topics: agriculture, cope, crime, elected, housing

aggregated from: Paying attention

The good news is that fewer B.C. kids were living in poverty in 2007.The bad news is that the Best Place on Earth has the highest child poverty rate in Canada, according to Statistics Canada.Worse, perhaps, is the fact that despite six consecut...

topics: cope, economy, elected, election, environment