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The great thing about political punditry is the ability to be right and wrong at the same time and get away with it. This is why the pundits who were no better at predicting the...
It’s a bit rich for the B.C. Liberal Party to be giving lessons to the B.C. NDP on political fundraising, as they tried to do over the weekend after the NDP sent a fundraising...
The phony campaign has finally given way to the real thing. The writ is dropped, the legislature is dissolved, and politicians are out on the hustings. And as voters know well...
They're off. The start to B.C.'s official precampaign period for the 2013 election campaign is well underway.  Day one of the precampaign would have been an easy miss, coming as...
If the B.C. government is ever on the hunt for a new slogan, perhaps “Spending our children’s inheritance” would be fitting. Since 2001, British Columbians have been witness to...
The B.C. government likes to boast that the province's personal income tax rates are among the lowest in the land, if not the lowest. Expect to hear it repeated a lot in TV ads...
If the term "fiscal cliff" became part of the daily lexicon over the holidays, perhaps a new term should come into vogue in B.C. before the May election. Call it the "fiscal...
British Columbia’s largest public-sector union— the B.C. Government and Services Employees’ Union— is facing a $3.2 million fine levied by Elections B.C. because of a TV ad the...
Pity Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's White House chief of staff, the highest ranking employee inside the executive office of the President of the United States. Earning a...
Catching a politician with their hand in the cookie jar is far more juicy than actually building a better cookie jar, so it’s little surprise that proposing changes to B.C.’s...