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Opinion: Liberals need to cut top fat off defence budget
The Liberal regime in Ottawa has launched a Defence Policy Review for the first time since the mid-1990s, so clearly it is about time. But while the Liberals are denying this review will include cuts,...
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July 19: Defence, racism, police, ICBC
Cut the fat but don’t reduce defence spending Re: Liberals need to cut the fat off the top of the defence budget, Opinion, July 14 While I agree wholeheartedly with John Dacombe on the need to cut...
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Vaughn Palmer: Liberals begin pre-election transition into action figures
VICTORIA — New Democrat Spencer Chandra Herbert had been picking up signals for a while that a growing number of B.C. Liberals agreed with his call to explicitly recognize transgender rights in the...
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Opinion: Immigration 'conversation" is public relations exercise
Earlier this month the federal government launched what it described as a “national conversation” on immigration in which it invites Canadians to tell it what they think immigration means for Canada...
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B.C. Liberals face balancing act on housing as 2017 election looms
British Columbia’s Liberal government must walk a fine line between creating affordable housing and causing a crash, as real estate prices loom large over next year’s election, experts say. The...
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Vaughn Palmer: Liberals play to electorate with foreign home tax
VICTORIA — When Finance Minister Mike de Jong announced the province would again be collecting data on the citizenship of property buyers, he played down on what it might take to provoke action against...
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Editorial: Impact of property tax uncertain
It’s not clear exactly when the B.C. Liberal government recognized what most of its constituents knew to be true — that foreign money, mainly from Chinese nationals, was driving up real estate prices...
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PM Trudeau's non-partisan Senate plan tested by B.C. applicant
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chose a former top federal bureaucrat, a respected aboriginal judge and a Paralympian in his first round of Senate appointments earlier this year. Now, Trudeau’s...
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Conservative Party removes attack ads using shirtless Trudeau photo
The federal Conservative Party has removed the now famous photo of a shirtless Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a Tofino wedding, after the photographer served the party a cease and desist order for...
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Ian Mulgrew: Ex-premier Harcourt pumped about legalizing pot plan, likes PM's...
Former premier-turned-pot-proponent Mike Harcourt couldn’t have sounded happier and more optimistic than if he just blew a big blunt. “I did use marijuana in the ’60s and early ’70s but haven’t used it...
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