Posted in General on Dec 14th, 2010
The early skirmishing has begun in the races to decide who will be the next premier and leader of the opposition. In the former case, Christy Clark, Mike DeJong and Kevin Falcon seem to be the front runners while in the latter, though there are no declared candidates, it would seem to be Adrian Dix, […]
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Posted in General on Dec 1st, 2010
Now that the Liberal leadership has warmed up we, the long suffering environmentalists, have our work cut out for us – the environment must be an issue. I say this knowing that not one of the Campbell clones gives a rat’s ass about environmental issues. If for no other reason, we must vocally make ourselves […]
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Posted in The Tyee on Oct 25th, 2009
Today’s column is from the “we had to destroy the village in order to save it” school of thought. This from a CBC report: “An estimated 90 agencies that have contracts with the Vancouver Coastal Health Region are being told to reduce costs, but provincial Health Minister Kevin Falcon says the reductions will not mean […]
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Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2009
It’s my fault, really. I should have taken young Kevin Falcon aside and given him the benefit of my wisdom, earned the hard way. Back in 1976 I was a newly minted member of Bill Bennett’s first cabinet as Minister of Consumer Services. Early on, after a very long cabinet meeting, I did a long, […]
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