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Premier Clark tap dancing around the political donations issue
Clark, who has tried to ignore growing public anger over the Liberal party’s fundraising practices, may have finally blinked at news of an RCMP investigation Last week, Premier Christy Clark heard...
The government’s latest effort to address B.C.’s affordable housing crisis amounts to little more than a drop in the bucket
Governments like to brag. It’s part of their DNA. So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the B.C. government wants to highlight the fact that it has completed close to 24,000 new units of...
‘Dark money’ pouring into party pockets in B.C.
In the U.S. it’s called “dark money,” a way to spend big bucks on politics and remain relatively anonymous. They’re the overlooked political donors: trade and professional associations, such as the...
A modest proposal for the Massey tunnel replacement project
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. If the Massey tunnel replacement project is any indication, that seems to be the B.C. government’s approach to transportation infrastructure...