Former NDP cabinet minister Harry Lali wore a trademark bright blue suit and pink tie when he visited the legislature this week, but, unlike his wardrobe, he got a decidedly muted response from most of the politicians there. Lali visited the capital building to execute a rare political doublecross, jumping from the BC NDP to […]
Premier David Eby is an intelligent person. Unusually so. He’s able to hold nuance and speaks in extended, complex sentences (journalists notice these things). Yet often in Question Period, he feigns simplistic interpretations of the Opposition’s position to deflect uncomfortable political questions. Throughout this past session, when opposition members repeatedly demanded a ban on hard […]
Business is booming in B.C.’s northwest, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the crumbling streets and leaking pipes of the region’s towns and cities. That disconnect between the economic prosperity of the region’s natural resource projects, and its cash-starved municipalities, led a delegation of mayors to travel to Victoria this week to plead […]
