Posts from ‘Campaigns’ - Page 84
Influence? Donations from corporations and labour
Barry Penner, the Liberal MLA from Chilliwack-Kent, has been around long enough to know that before one points fingers one should get their own house in order. Most notable ...
Campbell’s secret meeting: Intimidation of CBM activists?
Last week I got a frantic phone call from a friend currently working in northeastern BC. He quietly whispered, “Did you know Premier Campbell is secretly visiting the northeast?” ...
Distortions, misrepresentations and blatant lies
It is no surprise that the forest industry is lauding the new forestry regulations, they conceived them. The corporate campaign to didn’t begin in 2001 with the election of ...
Liberals gut forestry regulations
The Liberal pro-corporate deregulation train unloaded more foul smelling cargo yesterday with the release of weakened regulations protecting forests. Following its standard practice of announcing bad news about the ...
BCUC dismisses criticisms of BC Hydro’s Call for Tenders
On January 23, 2004, the BC Utilities Commission encouraged BC Hydro to stay the course with its Call for Tenders for power solutions for Vancouver Island. Dismissing criticisms submitted ...
Investors beware of BC
Russ Francis recently wrote in Victoria’s Monday Magazine about recent political scandals and thier impact on investment into BC. While he provides interesting insights into the fallout from these ...
More on softwood
A quick read of Canadian WTO and NAFTA submissions illustrates Canadian duplicity. Like much publicized white-collar criminals with high-priced lawyers, Canadian companies, provinces and federal government have tried to ...
Privacy, Secrecy, and Democracy
The news today was interesting for those who believe in the value of whistleblowers and who are concerned by a trend among some governments to exclude the public from ...
TimberWest sale in the crosshairs
The announcement that TimberWest’s TFL near Duncan was sold to Surrey-based Teal-Jones Group is touted as a success for the new Liberal forest policies. In fact, it is just ...