Real journalism
Real journalism is sadly missing in BC. So when you find it, celebrate it. Jody Paterson has a very real piece of investigative journalism over on her website today. Remember the story about the...
View ArticleChristy Clark, cheater?
Laila Yule has the scoop. Clark delivered lunches – and a photo op – to her poll scrutineers Wednesday. Here’s the relevant Election Act section: “(3) Other than for the purpose of voting, a...
View ArticleFerries, frigates and PR
Made in Germany A version of this story appears on the Vancouver Observer BC’s “chief salesperson” and her team trash their product This morning, in the bright sunshine down south, I woke up...
View ArticleThe Liars Club
The great Minitrue in the sky cracked a big smile when the Vancouver Sun joined the Liars Club yesterday, to stand side by side with Christy Clark Liberals. What else can you say when you open the Sun...
View ArticleSpecial treatment in BC Liberal domestic violence case
147 women were murdered in BC between January 2003 and August 2008. About 40% of these women were murdered by their spouses in a domestic dispute. The corresponding number for men is about 3%....
View ArticleThe next BC Liberal manifesto
“What I recall Greg Selinger doing in Manitoba and McGuinty in Ontario [was being] very much focused on their government’s agenda,” “They established their framework of what their government stood for...
View ArticleAnother day, another (unreported) poll
Good government NGO Integrity BC released a poll last week about BC politics. It was not good for the government of non-elected Premier Christy (not Christine) Clark. Integrity BC are the folks who...
View ArticleGaddafi is to Gwyn Morgan as Christy Clark is to?
Gwyn Morgan! She’s just another client. A year ago the Globe and Mail saluted Christy Clark and singled out one man on her new team: ”It is encouraging that Gwyn Morgan”, the Globe editorialist...
View ArticleCabinet shuffle, round ‘who cares anymore’
Holy smokes! What a lame bunch. John Yap, advanced ed. OMG! Ida Chong, the first nations file. My brain hurts. Bill Bennett, cultural development? Who wrote these jokes? But this is what they’ve...
View ArticleWeek One: the campaign double standard
The double standard is in full swing. That’s my conclusion based on the first five days of campaign reporting. Christy Clark is allowed to skate away from all content and glad hand through events with...
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