Now that the provincial election is behind us, the crew at the Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce hopes Christy Clark's government will act on its commitment to shrink B.C.'s deficit, and also do something about skilled labour shortages and that pesky PST.
I predict backwards as well as forwards. So stand by for a prophecy for the past.
NORTH Vancouver's Tsleil-Waututh Nation is applauding an announcement by the province that it cannot support Enbridge's Northern Gateway oil pipeline project.
I suspect I wasn't alone in thinking all the tunnel talk that took place during this month's provincial election campaign might well have been a moot point. The prevailing wisdom, or at least the pollsters, had the Liberals headed for defeat, which would have almost certainly shelved long-awaited plans to address the area's biggest traffic bottleneck.
The path from Opposition to government runs through Gen Squeeze.
Many opinions have circulated as to the reasons why the NDP vote collapsed in the recent election. Newspaper articles reflected on the devious Liberal propaganda that in fact influenced people to worry about the so-called "Socialist hordes at the gates," where comparisons were made between Adrian Dix and Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez.
Burnaby business leaders believe it will be business as usual under the new Liberal government.
After 12 years in power, the Liberal party had become arrogant and detached from ordinary people. Give credit to Christy Clarke for putting a fresh face on an old sow. She was aided by the departure of so many cabinet ministers responsible for the harmonized sales tax, B.C. rail, stadium roof and other betrayals of the public trust.
IT appears to be impossible to avoid attending inquest after inquest into the Great 2013 British Columbia Election.
The great thing about political punditry is the ability to be right and wrong at the same time and get away with it, which is why the pundits who were no better at predicting the outcome of the B.C. election shouldn't be expected to be any better at interpreting the results.
The great thing about political punditry is the ability to be right and wrong at the same time and get away with it, which is why the pundits who were no better at predicting the outcome of the B.C. election shouldn't be expected to be any better at interpreting the results.
Mea culpa. I have no truly honourable choice other than to admit my guilt.
Along with pretty much everyone else, I thought the election last week was going to produce a result exactly the opposite of what actually happened.
I am surprised that the NDP, a party that prides itself on its ethics and integrity, would allow a person of such low ethical standards to represent it.