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Posted in General on Jul 3rd, 2009
It’s interesting to speculate on what government is going to look like for the next couple of years. When the House sits we will, right off the get-go, see a budget that bears little relationship to the one brought down a short time ago to carry the Liberals to its electoral victory. It will be [...]
Posted in General on Jun 25th, 2009
I suspect that the fix is in with Alex Morton’s recent victory which I reported to you. In essence what happened is that the Province decided not to appeal the part of the decision saying that the federal government, not the provincial government, had exclusive jurisdiction over fish farms. They clearly did this because they [...]
Posted in The Tyee on May 19th, 2009
I tried to raise key election issues. Some big enviro groups, and most reporters, looked away. As the provincial election unfolded, we saw serious rifts exposed in the environmental movement. Where does it go now after the massive Campbell win, ratifying his plans to ravage our seas and rivers? In the vacuum created by that [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Apr 14th, 2009
For Premier Campbell, unsavoury questions pile up. As I write this, I’m coming to the end of a long road trip where I’ve been speaking to groups about the Campbell government’s energy policy, which bids fair to permanently lay waste to 600 to 700 of our rivers and streams in this wonderful province of ours. [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Apr 6th, 2009
What I predicted some years ago to then Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Minister John Van Dongen has come to pass – the environment, quite apart from global warming, has become an election issue – big time. When I spoke to this spiritually challenged minister in a spiritually challenged government – I’ll explain the phrase a [...]
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