Blog Profile / Northern BC Dipper
| URL : | http://nbcdipper.ca/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Politics / Canadian Politics | |
| Posts on Regator: | 172 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.6 | |
| Archived Since: | March 18, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Switching Site URL Back To nbcdipper.wordpress.com
I haven’t been really inspired to write in this blog for a while now, so I’m not going to bother paying the money to map the domain name nbcdipper.ca. The domain name still belongs to me. If I feel like writing again, I’ll be sure to restore the domain mapping. Filed under: Blogosphere
Media: If Not The BC Conservatives, Some Other Party Must Rise
Now that the BC Conservatives are busy self-immolating over their cognitive dissonance over the HST, one would think that the BC media would settle down in their predictions of the rise of a significant third party. Not so, it seems. Instead of the BC Conservatives, another political party, the BC First Party, is ready to [...]
On BC Liberal Fiscal Management
After overstating public revenues by $2.6 billion, and a deficit of $1.8 billion, around 4 times higher than the promised $495 million, for the 2009/10 fiscal year, can we now admit that the only thing that the BC Liberals can fiscally manage is a fudge stand? Filed under: BC Liberals, British Columbia Politics
Ignatieff’s Support For Tanker Ban Good, But Motivations Questionable, & NDP Only Realistic Choice In Northern BC
Well, I’ll give Ignatieff’s announcement of the federal Liberal support of a oil tanker ban on the Northwestern coast of BC one thing: its the first time in a long time that the Liberals have even thought about Northern BC. But beyond that, I’ve really got to question the logic behind supporting the Alberta Tar [...]
BC Conservatives Not Ready For Prime Time
Out of the immediate fallout of the Blair Lekstrom resignation, the strangest has to be the BC Conservative reaction. After all, one would think that a resignation of a MLA from the BC Liberals that represents one of the most ideologically conservative constituencies in BC would be an opportunity for them to either gain a [...]
BC Liberal Cabinet Minister Quits BC Liberal Caucus Over HST
Interesting. Blair Lekstrom, Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources for the BC Liberal Government, has resigned from both the BC Liberal Caucus and Cabinet over opposition to the HST. Even more interesting: any debate that the HST was something that has planned by the BC Liberals before the May 2009 Election can be put [...]
Hopefully This CBC Merger Talk Story…
…Is either a massive misquote or something coming from some fantasy agenda of Warren Kinsella’s. After all, over the past few years, the Liberals have proven themselves to be arrogant, corrupt, internally divided, and untrustworthy. Why would New Democrats want to merge with such an entity? Sure, there is always room for a coalition agreement [...]
Could Alberta Report Inspire BC Liberals To Scrap Elected School Boards?
There has been plenty of speculation lately that the BC Liberals want to make changes to the governance of education in BC, speculation based on vague platitudes from the throne speech and the report of the comptroller general in regards to the Vancouver board’s fiscal situation, which came down hard on the elected officials for [...]
Conservative Founding Principle Bullet Point #12
The Conservative Party of Canada has “[a] belief that a responsible government must be fiscally prudent and should be limited to those responsibilities which cannot be discharged reasonably by the individual or others.“ Then why the heck is a Conservative government wasting taxpayer dollars on a fake lake that is walking distance from one of [...]
BC Local Government Elections Task Force A Step Forward, But Still Disappointing
Last Friday, the Local Government Elections Task Force, a body designed to examine local elections in BC, released its report. For the most part, I think this report, if implemented would be a step forward in improving the state of local democracy in BC, but I think there were a few things that needed to [...]
A Closer Look At The BC New Democrats’ Campaign Finance Reform Act
Last week, the BC New Democrats introduced their Campaign Finance Reform Act to the BC Legislature. This is the second time such legislation has been introduced by the BC New Democrats; the first time was in 2008. So what will the Campaign Finance Reform Act do if passed, one might asked? The first thing it [...]
Wishing Won’t Make Third Party Appear In BC
A subject that seems to be in the BC media narrative as of late is the theoretical emergence of a significant third party that is not BC Liberal or New Democrat. Heck, even a poll was published by Angus Reid has declared that a theoretical centre-left third party would win government and a centre-right one [...]
The Most Underrated Exciting Current Event In BC Politics: Our Province, Our Future
It is an exciting time in BC politics at the moment, but what excites me the most is not the H.S.T., or the Site C Dam, but the BC New Democrats “Our Province, Our Future” initiative. What is Our Province, Our Future, one might ask? It’s a consultation process between the citizens of BC and [...]
Don’t Distribute The Milk Cartons With My Face Just Yet!
As you have been sure to notice, I haven’t updated this blog in about 2 months or so. Now, there’s a really good reason for that. You see, my computer has been going through the repair from hell. Since the beginning of this year, my computer has been in the repair shop for 7 and [...]
BC Budget 2010: BC New Democrats Bloggers Scrum
The BC New Democrats held an blogger-exclusive scrum with budget critic Bruce Ralston in regards to the BC 2010 budget, therefore continuing an event established for the BC 2009 budget update. This scrum was bigger than last time, involving blogs such as Northern Insights, TheLeftCoast.ca, Politics, Re-Spun, and B.C. Policy Perspectives. Ralston opened by stating that [...]
Decline In Women’s Rights? Change A Line In The Anthem
After a damning report stating that women’s rights in Canada have been in decline since 2004 in February, the Harper government has lain out a response in today’s Throne Speech. The response being you might ask? Let’s use the Throne Speech’s own words: Our Government will also ask Parliament to examine the original gender-neutral English wording of [...]
BC Budget 2010: Just Stumbling Around
The 2010 BC Budget has been released today, and if anybody was expecting a post-Olympic economic vision from the BC Liberals, they’d be disappointed. The 2010 Budget basically continues the path set by the 2009 Budget Update in September 2009: aiming to have a surplus budget by 2013/2014, continuing the reformation of the tax system from [...]
[Not] Protecting Education: The Cutbacks of School District #57
During the 2009 British Columbia Election campaign, the BC Liberals repeatedly said that despite the hard economic times, they would protect education while in Government. After getting out of yesterday’s School District #57 (PrinceShow More Summary
Well, What Do You Know? BC Boards of Education To Get HST Rebate
It seems that the BC Liberals have finally decided to give Board of Educations, Post-Secondary Institutions and Hospitals a HST rebate so that these organizations are not spending more money on taxes and less money on their purposes. One really has to ask the question: why wasn’t the HST designed and announced with these rebates in [...]
Johnnies-Come-Lately
There has been some snickering on the blogosphere today in regards to the Liberals calling for pension reform, a month or so after the New Democrats and Conservatives. But has anybody else noticed that serious discussion of pension reform started in the provinces a year ago as a result of a joint Alberta-British Columbia report that recommended [...]