Be Careful What You Wish For
This week’s provincial budget is both a result and a reflection of our times.
It’s a result of decades of the mantra that government and taxes are bad, free trade and “competitiveness” are good. It’s a reflection that this agenda has led to economic collapse continue reading
Celebrating an Uncertain Future?
One hundred years ago, BC embarked on a new adventure in forest management with the formation of the BC Forest Branch (renamed the Forest Service in 1945). The original intent for this new entity and its first Service Plan serve as a time capsule of sorts continue reading
Great Time in the Cariboo
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time at home and the ability to get around the riding over the last month. We live in an amazing part of the province and, as much as I like Victoria, it’ll be hard to head back down there for the spring continue reading
Ground Truthing
In the wake of the fire at Babine Forest Products the government has stepped in to help the community of Burns Lake and I applaud both its efforts and the generosity of other forest dependent communities, the Steelworkers Union and other organizations that are stepping up continue reading
Preparing for Another Session
Unlike Premier Campbell when we never knew if the legislature would sit, Premier Clark has posted the full legislative calendar for this year and it shows we’ll have full spring and fall legislative sessions.
Since we did not prorogue the last fall session, Premier Clark’s continue reading
Pipeline Dreams
There’s a certain irony in the fact that Federal Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver started 2012 with an outrageous attack on people who oppose the Enbridge pipeline when Time Magazine named the “Protester” as the “person of the year” for 2011.
I’m still not sure what continue reading