Oilpatch guys go for Falcon
Here’s a scene from the Gordon Campbell campaign bus in 2009, with Peace country MLAs Blair Lekstrom (right) and Pat Pimm suited up to visit a gas processing plant. Pimm, the Peace River North MLA,...
View ArticleKootenay Bill: ‘I went too far’
As this week’s peculiar legislative session got underway this morning, the four independent MLAs found themselves seated together. No, this isn’t a sign of any kind of new party forming up. Bob...
View ArticleHST robo-callers put on ice, for now
Finance Minister Kevin Falcon, seen here announcing the government’s HST debate program with Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom and Attorney-General Barry Penner, has just announced that the first...
View ArticleTelephone town halls pack ‘em in
Premier Christy Clark has jumped on the telephone town hall bandwagon, announcing one for this coming Wednesday evening to pitch voters in the Vancouver-Point Grey by-election. Fielding calls in a...
View ArticleBell heads for the HST boiler room
He can sell lumber to China, but can he sell the HST to British Columbia? Folks around the province are about to find out, as Jobs, Tourism and Innovation Minister Pat Bell comes off the bench to join...
View ArticleCummins goes from gay rights for treaty rights
B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins continued his magical mystery tour of legal history today, heading to court to take on B.C. treaties and specifically their commercial fishing rights. This is a...
View ArticleWill Lekstrom vote against another treaty?
Here’s Blair Lekstrom, making an announcement last year about fossils. Speaking of which, B.C.’s Harley-riding, Bruins-loving transportation minister was asked yesterday if he will vote against the...
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