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]Last weekend, Ribiao Chen, Overseas Chinese Affairs Consul of the People's Republic of Chi...

topics: business, candidate, chinatown, election, federal-government

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Since 2005, BC Lions Football Club Inc. has made $27,200 worth of provincial political contributions - exclusively to the Liberals. But, according to an email promoting former provincial New Democrat president Jeff Fox upcoming farewell pub party, Mr...

topics: burnaby, liberals, new-democrat, political, tax

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Sunday morning, on Public Eye Radio, former Saskatchewan premier Grant Devine shares his thoughts on the harmonized sales tax. Provincial New Democrat tourism, culture and the arts critic Spencer Herbert discusses the scrapping of Tourism British Col...

topics: new-democrat, premier, tax

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

The harmonized sales tax proposal is a regressive scheme that will nickel and dime families at a time when they can least afford it...This is nothing but a sales tax grab that will nickel and dime families that are already......

topics: new-democrat, tax

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Sunday morning, on Public Eye Radio, British Columbia's Minister of State for Mining Randy Hawes joins us to discuss his government's resource agenda. Former provincial New Democrat attorney general Colin Gabelman talks about the possible destruction...

topics: attorney-general, mining, new-democrat

aggregated from: Bill Tieleman

Bill Tieleman's 24 hours and The Tyee columnTuesday July 14, 2009'The Premier Has Misled the Voters'Gordon Campbell shares his views on the need for truth in budgeting.By: Bill Tieleman, 14 July 2009View full article and comments at The Tyee: Today, ...

topics: economy, election, liberal, new-democrat, political

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Last week, provincial New Democrat leader Carole James put her axe the carbon tax campaign on the chopping block. And there's been talk the party's opposition to independent power projects may be next - with that speculation increasing following a......

topics: carbon-tax, new-democrat, tax

aggregated from: Burnaby Politics

It has been 35 years since a Liberal has been elected MP in north Burnaby. Ken Low, the Liberal candidate in Vancouver East last time, may be the candidate who will end that losing streak.Low, a civil engineer who immigrated from Hong Kong, is being...

topics: burnaby, candidate, elected, election, liberal

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: Public Eye Online

Provincial New Democrat Saanich South MLA-elect Lana Popham said yesterday her party should call on the government to fix rather than axe the carbon tax. In an interview with Public Eye Radio, Ms. Popham said, The carbon tax is going......

topics: carbon-tax, mla, new-democrat, tax