NDP pledge to hike taxes could affect investment, leading to fewer BC jobs BC jobs and investment could be heading for a rough ride over the next few years with a new NDP government, according to figures compiled by a leading Canadian economist. Jack Mintz, head of the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, [...]
Latest poll BC Election 2013 reports 9 point gap in favour of NDP Today’s the last day of advanced polling for BC Election 2013. Tuesday’s election day. Christy Clark’s hell-bent-for-leather campaign to keep her BC Liberals in government has not quite made it. For a while, early last week, it looked as though she’d really made [...]
BC Conservatives says their proposal will lower prices, increase choice The BC Conservatives made the announcement Tuesday. Leader John Cummins says a BC Conservative government would give British Columbians more choice to buy beer and wine and “take the special interests out of liquor sales.” “We believe in getting BC back to basics, and that means [...]
BC NDP leader Adrian Dix in Richmond Tuesday, supports strong riding campaigns Even though all three Richmond ridings are projected to go Liberal, the races are closer than expected, which is why BC NDP leader Adrian Dix was in town Tuesday to help with the campaigning. Dix says the nasty attacks against Richmond Centre candidate Frank [...]
Langley candidate Mary Polak accuses Hauptman of leaking campaign strategy to NDP The B.C. provincial election became even weirder Tuesday as the campaign manager for Liberal incumbent Mary Polak resigned over “hateful attitudes” by party members toward gays, followed by allegations from the candidate that he leaked campaign strategy to the NDP. Todd Hauptman resigned Tuesday [...]
Site C dam projected to cost $7.9 billion By Erik Andersen Dear Ms. Clark, Mr. Dix, Ms. Sterk and Mr. Cummins, I am writing to all of you political party leaders in the midst of the B.C. provincial campaign, as a senior economist who is very concerned that the proposed construction of Site C dam [...]
Platforms for BC Election 2013 offer little to those under 40 By Paul Kershaw and Lynell Anderson BC Election 2013 – British Columbians want their politicians to work for all generations and not inflame intergenerational tension. Problem is, that’s just what the B.C. Liberal and NDP platforms are doing this election. Take, for example, the [...]
BC Conservatives leader John Cummins making headway, but not ahead of Liberal Mary Polak Being a party leader — and being in the debate — does help. But perhaps not enough to get BC Conservatives leader John Cummins a seat in the legislature. John Cummins, a 17-year veteran of federal politics who represented parts of Richmond [...]
Oak Bay – Gordon Head riding held by Liberal Ida Chong in play during BC Election 2013 The big news in BC Election 2013 as the week ends, ten days before election day, is how the BC Liberals have closed the gap on the BC NDP. Ipsos-Reid says they’re 10 points behind the NDP. Others [...]
Economists argue Saskatchewan NDP is best model for BC NDP and Adrian Dix By Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis Too often in politics, particularly during election campaigns, citizens conflate political brands with policy. That is, too often we make assumptions about the policies of political parties based on a perception rather than the reality of [...]
