aggregated from: Beyond Robson

An Olympic disaster? Complete rubbishWherein official sponsor of the 2010 Winter Games takes on those grumpy brits at The Guardian. If you're going to say the Vancouver Games cost $6-billion, have the decency to note $4-billion is for infrastructure...

topics: 2010-winter-games, tax, taxes, translink, vanoc

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: Beyond Robson

Undercover cop infiltrated torch protesters' ranks. You knew that the protesters weren't that organized when on the ferry on the way over they all rented a bus, they all came over on a bus, and there was a cop driving the bus! Graham told the 12th ...

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

aggregated from: B.C. Policy Perspectives

Well, I am not running for office, I am not an apologist for any political party, so I can say what I think. The federal government's insistence on cutting sales taxes is not a great idea.In the short run, insisting on GST cuts merely makes a recor...

topics: federal-government, investment, liberal, ndp, political

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Press ReleaseI have some sympathy with the idea that we should not be spending money on freeways but investing in transit, as the Wilderness Committee recommnends.But I am afraid that simply injecting more capital spending into Translink will not sol...

topics: gateway, tax, taxes, transit, translink

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

OK, we all know that Gordon Campbell s popularity is flushing down the drain. However, isn t it even a bigger problem that the NDP is failing to capture any gains while the BC Conservatives picking up support?There was a caller to a Chinese phone-in ...

topics: bc-green-party, burnaby, business, election, liberal

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: Stephen Rees's blog

I must admit that it had slipped my mind that Martin Crilly, who is the Ferry Commissioner, was also appointed Translink Commissioner as well. That is until Jim Goddard of News 1130 called me and asked for comments on Martin s latest report. Of cours...

topics: planning, provincial-government, tax, taxes, transit