Return to PST should prompt tax reform, says Fraser Institute
If BC wants to reduce the negative effects that reintroducing the provincial sales tax will have on the province’s investment climate, it should consider exempting all business inputs from the PST, among other reforms, says Charles Lammam, Fraser Institute associate director of tax and budget policy research. The recommendations...
OP/ED: The Northern Oil Pipeline is 2013′s BIG Election issue
The battle lines are being drawn--maybe even purposefully manipulated--to give the Liberals at least some hope of retaining power in BC’s next provincial election. It would have seemed implausible and statistically impossible only a few weeks ago for the Liberals to have a chance, given every poll over the past year. However...
Women's rights activist won't be silenced by right wing political tactics
By: Wikinews In an opinion piece published by CNN on Tuesday, Georgetown University law student and women's rights advocate Sandra Fluke insisted she will not allow slurs from critics to silence her and other women from continuing to speak out on issues regarding women's health and contraception. Fluke has faced slurs and...
Nelson Homeowners Flock to Ecosave Program
Reaching a two-year goal in just over two months—that sounds like something to brag about. Carmen Proctor may not be doing that, exactly, but she is obviously really proud. “I am overjoyed,” says Proctor, the Coordinator of the Nelson’s Ecosave Energy Retrofit Program. “I didn’t honestly know what to expect. I am very excited...
Nelson/Creston MLA looking for applicants for the prestigious Queens Diamond Jubilee Medals
MLA Michelle Mungall is asking the people of the Nelson-Creston Constituency to help choose recipients of the prestigious Queens Diamond Jubilee Medals. Mungall has been tasked with nominating four individuals to receive a Medal, to do this she has a devised a process that will involve every member of the community. “To ...
OP/ED: B.C.'s Auditor General short changed by government
It's time to give B.C.'s Auditor General the necessary financial resources and tools to do the job, according to figures released by IntegrityBC today which compared the budget of B.C.'s Auditor General with that of his counterpart in Alberta For the fiscal year 2012-13, B.C.'s Auditor General has an annual budget of $15.75...
Provincial Government misses the mark: BC First Nations’ traditional territories and pristine environment not for sale
The leadership of the First Nations Summit is concerned with the approach laid out yesterday by BC on heavy oil pipelines in British Columbia. “Yesterday’s announcement clearly shows the Provincial Government is on the wrong track and does not fully understand the level of opposition or the reasons for opposition to both the...
OP/ED: "Blanket thinkers"
One of my infantile leftist ex-friends recently referred to the Free Syrian Army as a ‘sectarian gang’. The phrase may well come from Asa’ad Abu Khalil, who seems to have a depressingly large audience, but it could come from any of a large number of blanket thinkers in the ranks of the Western left. I admit that I sometimes...
GOING, GOING, GONE: Sold to the Conservatives
The budget implementation act (Bill C-38), all 400 pages of it, was the latest in a long string of legislative initiatives to have debate limited by time allocation. Like too many other bills that parliament has been forced to fast-track, C-38 was bloated, omnibus and strayed in too many directions. New Democrats demanded...
Bring your own wine . . . to BC restaurants
Minister Rich Coleman announced today that British Columbians can now bring their own bottle of wine into participating restaurants and enjoy it with their meals. "We want to provide our restaurant industry with greater flexibility in terms of the services it can offer to its customers," said Rich Coleman, Minister responsible...
