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: Stephen Rees's blog

Vancouver SunFederal money in Canada does not come easily. It comes with conditions and a timetable. In this case infrastructure spending intended to boost the economy was authorised for only shovel ready projects that could start straight away...

topics: economy, election, environment, gateway, liberal

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Last week, the Campbell administration announced it would miss its 2009/10 deficit target by $2.28 billion - in part, because of a dramatic decline in natural gas royalties. But, in the first five months of the year, the finance ministry's two top bu...

topics: campbell-administration, oil-and-gas, premier

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Exxon.jpg We Really, Really Hope SoIt was hard, at first, to know whether the Forbes headline was tongue-in-cheek: ExxonMobil: Green Company of the Year.But the story seemed sincere. Exxon is finally...

topics: emissions, investment, oil-and-gas

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

If the Campbell administration didn't introduce the harmonized sales tax, it would be turning aside $1.6 billion in transition funding from the federal government. This, at a time when the province's books are in the red. So what would the tax-opposi...

topics: campbell-administration, election, federal-government, new-democrats, oil-and-gas

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Grist took a deeper look at a list of local organizers” of the Astroturf ‘Energy Citizens rallies and discovered that most of them are actually oil industry lobbyists. Go figure. Since the American Petroleum Institute cooked up the idea...

topics: business, health-care, oil-and-gas

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Oil industry employees continued their ‘Energy Citizens tour today in conservative towns in New Mexico, after holding a glorified company picnic” in Houston on Tuesday. Local New Mexico blog FBIHOP reports that the API/NAM/Chamber of Com...

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

oil spewing.jpg A total of 1,150 different companies and advocacy organizations have participated so far this year in lobbying Congres on climate change, an increase of more than 30 per cent this yea...

topics: business, climate-change, oil-and-gas

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Gordon Campbell government's cuts devastate post secondary students. Oh dear, looks like Tough Economic Times (tm) strikes again. Because we'd rather give royalties to oil and gas companies. Fodor's guidebook makes Yaletown the new East Vancouver. A...

topics: design, east-vancouver, oil-and-gas, ski, yaletown

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Oil and gas giant Koch Industries is doling out more and more money to Democrats as it works to turn the polar ice caps into puddles in bipartisan fashion. Formerly regarded as a staunchly Republican funding machine, Koch has given nearly 30 percent...

topics: environment, global-warming, liberal, oil-and-gas