Premier Campbell is Simply Afraid
“Question period is about to get underway. And guess who isn’t in the legislature? Why that would be Premier Gordon Campbell for the fourth time in a row.” via Public Eye Online – Three strikes you’re out?. And since the premier is scared to continue with the legislative calendar for the rest of the week [...]
WE WON!!! Democracy 1, Gordon Campbell 0
Gag law ruled unconstitutional March 27, 2009 The B.C. Liberal government’s controversial election “gag” law has been ruled unconstitutional by the B.C. Supreme Court. Justice Frank Cole found that Bill 42′s restriction on third-party election advertising before the official 28-day election period is unconstitutional. He’s expected to issue written reasons for his judgement early next [...]
Gordon Campbell, the Anti-Populist: Soon Out of a Job
“Amongst people ‘absolutely certain to vote’, the governing party is only two points ahead of the NDP (41% to 39%).” “The BC election may well be determined by the turnout levels of supporters for each party.” via BC Liberals Lead, Voter Turnout Will Decide the BC Election | Angus Reid Strategies. Read the whole piece; [...]
BC Cabinet Minister Effectively Endorses NDP Candidate, Kathy Corrigan
BC’s neoLiberal Solicitor-General John van Dongen “admits the protests of Burnaby’s mayor and his wife, who is running as a New Democratic Party candidate in the upcoming provincial election, were partly behind the government’s decision to seek a new jail site.” This is pretty much the closest thing to an endorsement from a sitting BC [...]
Destroying the CBC: Another Step Today
I’ve already written about the slow destruction of the CBC. And I’m at it again today. The short list of what I wrote before: constrain funding to lose Hockey Night in Canada lose the rights to the HNIC theme song kill the CBC orchestra And now: “the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. plans to cut up to [...]
Gullible Gord: A Compendium of Campbell’s Fear and Desperation
“Incompetence is combined with thoughtlessness, arrogance and hubris — a fatal mix.” via Spare Us from Gullible Gord :: Views :: thetyee.ca. Rarely is there an article that so succinctly lists evidence of Campbell’s extraordinary dislocation from reality, worship of neoliberalism and disregard for citizens and communities. Rape and pillage for the lowest financial return [...]
“Lord Stern on global warming: It’s even worse than I thought”
“Sea levels are likely to rise twice as fast as predicted in the last UN climate change report in 2007.” via Lord Stern on global warming: It’s even worse than I thought – Climate Change, Environment – The Independent. As governments continue to craft optics-friendly greenwashing plans while ramping up highways construction, etc., I keep [...]
Remembering Fondly the Professionalism of Teachers
Every once in a while I lament how drastically the public education system degraded over my 11 year high school teaching career. The system in the early 1990s was a dream compared to how it ended for me 4 years ago, with Gordon Campbell, Christy Clark and the gang robbing me of what I expected [...]
Crown Corporations: Start Exercising Your Ownership!
BC has had crown corporations for such a long time that people have forgotten that we all actually own them. People who don’t resent taxes sometimes describe them as “how we buy things together.” Crown corporations are how we get things done together. Gordon Campbell’s neoLiberal party and a host of other right wing, free [...]
The Unanticipated Pricetag of Being an Olympic Corporate Sponsor
The Canadian Press: Threats against Olympic sponsors worry security officials. They should be worried! I don’t know if they need to be $1b worried, but if you do the math, there is earned concern: ((The Olympics corporate welfare program) + (obscene reductions in government spending for human beings) + (radical and radicalized groups who object [...]
No One Is Illegal – Ignite resistance ~ Canadian multiculturalism is not enough!
No One Is Illegal – Vancouver » Blog Archive » Ignite resistance ~ Canadian multiculturalism is not enough!. In a world where the deregulated global market capitalist regime is imploding, there is wide open space to re-frame the local, national and global economy in a socially and economically just way. An off-shoot of this progressive [...]
MLA Dan Jarvis: Time to Lose Your Job
North Vancouver-Seymour neoLiberal MLA Dan Jarvis is about due to lose an election. While elected consistently since 1991 even before Gordon Campbell neoliberalized the centrist, mildly progressive party, his political record has been quite lacklustre. A chronic backbencher, he spent most of his productive time as a deputy critic of minor issues, never rising to [...]
Keep Reading Your Community Newspapers, Or Else
Despite the sexiness of the internet, print is not dead. If you are not spending more time reading your community newspaper, you are on the wrong road, for yourself and for the health of our society. Granted, decades ago television supplanted newspapers as the dominant source of news and information for the majority of North [...]
BC Liberals’ Homelessness Non-Solution
The neoLiberals are such anti-social, free marketeer, social darwinists that when polling shows people are very concerned about homelessness and poverty in BC, they come out with a thoroughly, cynically empty plan full of insubstantial optics that is insulting to people in need and those who advocate for them. How do we know this? Beyond [...]
Mr. Harper’s Gift of Democracy
The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, is not a fan of democracy, transparency or accountability. His hallmark moment upon sliding into the office was to eviscerate responsible government by forcing cabinet ministers to get approval from the prime minister’s office before speaking, answering questions, sampling the decadent cheese plate in the parliamentary dining room, that [...]
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