aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB].During the last provincial election, the BC Liberal Party stated in black and white that ...

topics: bc-government, bc-rail, business, candidate, concert

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB].The BC Liberals often claimed that economic development and management are their strength...

topics: 2010-winter-games, business, candidate, economy, election

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

On October 23, 2009 several mayors voted to increase funding for Translink to $130m in order to keep services running at the same level we are experiencing now (as opposed to a cut back to 1970s levels--ouch). Unfortunately, this plan falls short of ...

topics: bc-government, coquitlam, liberals, surrey, translink

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

A story this week at theTyee.ca does a little arithmetic and concludes that the economic benefits of the Olympics will be pretty slim.More to the point, about 6.7 billion dollars less than promised by the Campbell Liberals.The government was using th...

topics: liberals, ndp, olympic-games, olympics

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

(Sorry for not updating. Am going to HK for a month& so much to finish before I take my annual holiday.)Anyway, this s just in:Mason Loh loses his nomination bid in Richmond (see previous story). Joe Peschisolido gets it. Raymond Chan loses out in fi...

topics: election, liberal, liberals, nomination, political

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

I caught up with the popular and former North Shore BC and Federal Green Party candidate Jim Stephenson to ask him if it was true that he was seeking the North Van. Federal Liberal nomination. He said at first he wasn't going to run at all and that i...

topics: candidate, elected, election, environmental, liberal

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

After two weeks of intense election-no-election drama in Ottawa, it s obviously by now that we will not have a fall election.Ignatieff has shown he s a gambler, and he has strategically changed the ecological environment in Ottawa. Now after years of...

topics: economy, election, employment, federal-government, health-care

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Roving gangs teams shield Olympic brand The Vancouver Organizing Committee's 20 observer teams are intended to enforce its agreement with the International Olympic Committee that the local organizers must ensure the venues are clean of commercial,...

topics: downtown, langley, liberals, olympics, political

aggregated from: B.C. Policy Perspectives

Bill Tieleman's criticism of my previous column makes me wonder if I don't try too hard to read the broader public interest in my academic tea leaves, perhaps because I wish to avoid the uncomfortable truth that much of what Campbell's Liberals d...

topics: liberals, politics, tax, taxes

aggregated from: Paying attention

The last NDP government blew up in spectacular fashion, tossed out in 2001 for a long list of sins. Two were critical. The public decided the New Democrats were both untrustworthy and incompetent. (Rightly, I would add.)It's early days, but the Libe...

topics: election, liberal, liberals, ndp, new-democrats