Showing posts with label BC politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BC politics. Show all posts
Monday, January 29, 2024

The icky truth about international students in Canada

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Opportunistic Canadian training institutes that over-promise and under-deliver are no doubt a problem for international students in Canada. ...
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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...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

The crisis is now

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The perfect is the enemy of the good, as Voltaire noted back in the 18th century. His wise words came to mind when I saw the Vancouver Sun&#...
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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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Martyn Brown: Say Wha-a-a-a-t?

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People change. I get that. But I still feel a flash of furious disbelief every time I see one of my soft-left acquaintances embracing th...
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Monday, December 18, 2017

Three stories to knock that Christmas cheer right out of you

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'Tis the season for sharing, which in this case means sharing some of the stories that caught my attention today. Putting them into a ...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

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NDP: Please don't leave us with no one who gives a damn With all due respect to a woman who I personally like, there’s a burning questio...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

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Is this really how the premier wants us to remember him? By the time you’re premier of B.C., you’re probably wrapped pretty tight in people ...
Friday, November 06, 2009

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If you want to fight back, make it effective I find myself thinking about protest a lot these days, mostly because of the ill-considered soc...
Friday, May 08, 2009

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Why I'm voting 'Yes!' to STV You probably know who you’re voting for in Tuesday’s provincial election. I’m not going to try to i...
Friday, May 01, 2009

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Are we sure we're still on the way up? I suppose every generation wants to believe it’s improving on the past. That’s how it always seem...