Articles tagged with: BC
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The travel writer and broadcaster Jack Christie discusses his new book 52 Best Day Trips from Vancouver, with Joseph Planta.
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The fourth in a series of interviews meeting those running in Vancouver Kingsway features Don Davies, the incumbent MP and the New Democratic Party’s candidate; Joseph Planta asks him about the issues, the local campaign, the NDP’s success in recent national polls, and more.
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John Twigg discusses Adrian Dix and his winning of the BC NDP leadership, as well as other BC political matters, including the federal election, with Joseph Planta.
The Commentary »
BY JOHN TWIGG: One of the major impressions to emerge from the B.C. NDP’s leadership contest that concludes Sunday (April 17) is that there are supposedly very few if any policy differences between the four remaining contenders and not many differences in their styles and personalities either.
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The political consultant and commentator Michael Geoghegan talks politics with Joseph Planta: the federal election campaign so far, Christy Clark and other BC political news, including John Cummins entry into the arena.
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The author and chef Cory Parsons discusses his new cookbook Cooking with Cory: Inspirational Recipes for the Fearless Cook (Whitecap, 2010), food, as well as the diving accident that left him a quadriplegic, with Joseph Planta.
The Commentary »
BY JOHN TWIGG: Christy Clark won the B.C. Liberal Party leadership by promising major changes from the Gordon Campbell era and with her installation as Premier and simultaneous cabinet shuffle on Monday she began delivering those changes in a variety of obvious and subtle ways.
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The political pundit, former NDP MLA, and blogger (www.strategicthoughts.com) David Schreck talks to Joseph Planta about politics in BC: the election of Christy Clark, the challenges she faces, the NDP leadership race, and more.
The Commentary »
BY JOHN TWIGG: There are lots of levels and grounds on which the B.C. Liberal Party’s latest leadership contest could be questioned, including that Christy Clark could have won mainly because of strategy around the regional weighting system adopted shortly before the vote.
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BY JOHN TWIGG: It’s apparent from examining the entrails of Premier-designate Christy Clark’s narrow win of the B.C. Liberal Party leadership contest that she won because she became seen as the one most likely to be able to defeat the New Democratic Party opponents in the next provincial election, but there is no guarantee she will be able to do so.
