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Questions about privatizing health care
The B.C. government’s drive to privatize public services and assets, and to do so through back room deals such as the rumoured sell-off of the British Columbia Buildings Corporation, ...
Plan to privatize public lands draws demonstrators
Hundreds of wood workers, students, environmentalists, First Nations and activists demonstrated on the steps of the Legislature on Saturday, March 27. To illustrate the direction BC forest policy is ...
Flathead Coalition applauds no mines, coalbed methane still a concern
Flathead Coalition press release Dear Friends of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Great news today from British Columbia: The government has killed the proposed open-pit coal mines. But it is ...
Increased uncertainty for GSX and VIGP
In a speech in Nanaimo this morning, BC Hydro CEO Bob Elton announced that Hydro has opted to write down $120 million in sunk costs for GSX and VIGP. ...
Who controls the land?
March 24, 2004 will go down as a momentous day in the history of British Columbia. Fundamental issues about who controls the land, the obligations of corporations and who ...
Energy Minister schedules private meeting with Fernie council
The City of Fernie was advised today by Bill Bennett, local member of the provincial legislature, that the Minister of Energy Richard Neufeld, his deputies, and Derek Doyle, the ...
The Canadian conundrum: jobs versus productivity
The loss of jobs to free trade, tax driven automation, sweatshops in developing countries is becoming the “political hot potato of the U.S. elections. While the jobless recovery in ...
Fernie takes a stand
On Tuesday, March 16, the City Council in Fernie sponsored a “Town Hall” Meeting to discuss coalbed methane. This was in response to a large area of rights that ...
Growing First Nation unrest in BC
First Nations from across BC are increasingly frustrated by the BC government’s approach to their issues. The frustration was evident at the First Nations Summit meeting last week as ...
