Credit to Author: Gord Kurenoff| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 01:47:48 +0000
OPINION: To further discourage consumption, the province is boosting the sales tax to 20 per cent on vaping devices and products. And to discourage vapers from switching, the tobacco tax will be boosted by two cents as well
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Credit to Author: Gord Kurenoff| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 01:37:31 +0000
OPINION: The Schaub report serves to remind New Democrats why they, too, had trouble with K-12 sector bargaining during their previous term of office. The B.C. Teachers’ Federation was a handful, even before the Liberals began blundering their way through the sector
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Credit to Author: Gord Kurenoff| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:57:05 +0000
OPINION: The woman said she had worked hard all her life and her children were doing the same. Yet they couldn’t afford to buy homes where they lived, in Victoria. She offered this plausible equation: Money laundering drives up prices in Vancouver. Vancouverites cash in and move to Victoria, distorting the market here as well. “My kids can’t compete with that.”
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Credit to Author: Gord Kurenoff| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 01:27:20 +0000
OPINION: Though the two sides in the transit dispute are far apart and dug in, there’d be no hope of movement if the province even hinted at a willingness to intervene and take them off the hook
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Credit to Author: Gord Kurenoff| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 01:25:08 +0000
VICTORIA — When Premier John Horgan and his cabinet gathered in Vancouver Tuesday for their annual summit with First Nations, they began by noting how they’d kept the promises made at last year’s session. At the November 2018 meeting, the New Democrats pledged to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and […]
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Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 01:15:22 +0000
OPINION: Eby hinted about no fault earlier in the year when his ICBC reforms first ran into opposition. But then, the prospect was hypothetical. Now, the implied threat comes against the backdrop of a courtroom defeat for his effort to rein in use of medical and other experts in auto insurance cases
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Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:15:20 +0000
OPINION: “Conditions have not been met. Deadlines have not been met,” says Green MLA Sonia Furstenau
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Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:24:58 +0000
OPINION: Removing tolls will have cost $936 million by the time the next election rolls around
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Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:11:47 +0000
OPINION: Lana Popham insists the Agricultural Land Commission is independent of government and its decisions are final.
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Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:35:38 +0000
Opinion: The commissioner, finding Fred Pinnock’s circumstances much different from those of Jim Lightbody, rejected his application for standing.
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