Showing posts with label BC government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BC government. Show all posts
Monday, June 26, 2023

BC leads pack by a long shot when it comes to Canada's missing persons

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  Image by  愚木混株 Cdd20  from  Pixabay My news feeds have been bringing me so many reports of missing persons in BC recently that I finally w...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2023

BC's decrim experiment: One giant step for governments, one really tiny step for fixing the problem

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Credit: No Name 13, Pixabay The BC government doubtlessly had to work very hard to get the OK from the federal government for a three-year t...
Monday, January 02, 2023

We won't slow climate change with niceness

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Extinction Rebellion UK says it will prioritize "relationships over roadblocks" this year and move away from public disruptions a...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Drugs don't kill people, poisoned drugs do

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BC's crisis of poisoned street drugs is hitting men in the prime of their working years the hardest. Three-quarters of the 10,000 deaths...
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Friday, June 12, 2020

The man who refused to kill baby bears: A win in the Court of Right Thinking

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A cute bear from Pixabay to stand in  for the cubs that Casavant saved. Court judgments are often answering questions that the average pers...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Suicide by car: On trauma, tragedy and ICBC policy

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The tragic suicide by car of a 24-year-old on the Pat Bay Highway on Sunday takes me back to another similar suicide back in 2000 that I w...
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Monday, March 25, 2019

Open procurement and social care: Why that should scare you

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Find me here in the Vancouver Sun writing on the scintillating issue of open procurement, and other strange happenings bombarding the comm...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Proportional Representation: One British Columbian's heartfelt, well-considered and very linked-up case for voting YES to PR

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I am rooting like mad for British Columbians to vote in favour of switching our voting system to  proportional representation when the ref...
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Monday, August 14, 2017

Homelessness is still a problem. Gee, go figure

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Ten years ago now, I was part of a major initiative to address homelessness in Victoria. The Mayor's Task Force on Breaking the Cycle ...
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Sunday, May 25, 2014

Who's right? Who's wrong? Who cares - just get a grip and negotiate like everybody else

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    A looming strike/lockout in B.C. schools gets my attention more these days due to living with my son and his two school-age boys, wh...
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