The Hunger Games...and other dystopias
The Hunger Games have arrived, a storm of popularity that is selling millions of books and filling movie theatres. Suzanne Collins' dystopian story is about North America in ruin after an unspecified cataclysm leaves the rich in absolute power and the poor as their slaves. The story has a credibility because it extrapolates...
Watch out for the other cyclist as more riders venture out on highways and streets during Bike to Work Week
Every day more and more cyclists take to highways in B.C. as the weather become more desirable. Heading into Bike to Work Week, ICBC would like all drivers and cyclists to pay special attention to each other and share the road. On average, 140 cyclists are injured and two cyclists are killed in crashes on […]
OP/ED: Lillooet rapidly becoming basket case of municipal governance in B.C.
IntegrityBC is calling on the provincial government to appoint a conciliator to try and resolve the escalating disputes in the town of Lillooet over local governance and water management. IntegrityBC's call follows on the heels of the government rejecting the request of 336 residents for an inquiry into town affairs earlier...
Pushing the West OUT of Canada
Don’t think it couldn't happen! People out here in the West may not yet be mad as hell, but we are confident enough in ourselves these days that we’re not going to take it anymore if NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair (and any other Central Canada political leaders) tie their pursuit of power to policies pumping up Eastern Canada...
Obscure US corporation may be behind BC Hydro's exaggerated power demand, ruinous IPP contracts
By Erik Anderson in The Common Sense Canadian. Why has BC Hydro gone so Big? Over the past few years a number of us have puzzled over this question. The Crown Corporation, in most people’s minds, was given its natural monopoly status in the belief that the Board and Officers will prudently manage Hydro’s ...
NDP calls on province to fight GMO apples
New Democrats are calling on the B.C. Liberals to defend the B.C. fruit industry by working with the federal government to keep the province free of genetically modified fruit. "The B.C. tree fruit industry produces healthy products that are world famous for flavour and purity. Growers are concerned that this marketing...
No excuse for further Liberal HST stalling
The BC Liberals and their friends in the corporate and media communities, have tried to sell the public on their supposed “business” abilities…unlike those “socialists” on the other side. And yet, after the voters ordered them to get rid of the HST, they are incapable of returning for a full NINETEEN MONTHS to a provincial...
COMMENT: TRIUMF Lab helps make case for electoral finance reform
Who would ever have thought that a single political donor could have disclosed so much about the sorry state of affairs surrounding money and politics in B.C. In what they now call a “learning experience,” TRIUMF – Canada's nuclear physics laboratory located at the University of British Columbia – finally acknowledged last ...
Government delivers legislation to end the HST
Finance Minister Kevin Falcon has introduced legislation to meet government’s commitment to return to the Provincial Sales Tax on April 1, 2013. As committed, the PST is being re-implemented with all permanent exemptions. The government also introduced common-sense improvements that will make administration of the sales tax easier for businesses. Consumers will pay PST only […]
UPDATED: Pilot in plane crash identified
Three passengers are dead, including pilot Colin Moyes, of West Vancouver, after a single-engine de Havilland Beaver crashed in the Okanagan Sunday evening. Moyes was described by friends as an experienced pilot in his early 50s. The plane was en route back to Pitt Meadows when something went terribly wrong. The crash occured close to […]
