Articles tagged with: BC
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The Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform was charged with looking at British Columbia’s electoral system. They’ve recommended that the current system be replaced with a new scheme, BC-STV. Frankie Kirby co-represented Vancouver-Kensington as a member of the Citizen’s Assembly, and she talked with Joseph Planta about the assembly’s recommendation.
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Gregor Robertson, the BC NDP candidate in Vancouver-Fairview for the upcoming provincial election, talks to Joseph Planta about why he’s entered the political arena, after years of success running Happy Planet Foods.
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Otto Langer, Director of the Marine Conservation Program at the David Suzuki Foundation is a former Department of Fisheries and Oceans biologist and a contributor to a new book, A Stain Upon the Sea (Harbour, 2004), a strident and robust case against salmon farming. He talked with Joseph Planta about the book, and gave an informative overview of the industry and its perils.
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Broadcaster and author, not to mention former politician and former lawyer, Rafe Mair talked with Joseph Planta about his new book, Rafe: A Memoir (Harbour, 2004), as well as his career in politics and broadcasting.
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Former Vancouver alderman and provincial cabinet minister Darlene Marzari tells Joseph Planta why she’s voting ‘yes’ in the upcoming plebiscite on whether councillors should be elected in a ward system.
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Blake MacKenzie, the Director of Communications for the BC Alternative Task Force talks with Joseph Planta about the proposed merger between the BC Conservative and BC Unity parties.
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Jamie Lee Hamilton talks with The Commentary’s Joseph Planta about her blog, the Downtown Eastside, the Jeff Berg matter, civic politics and wards, and more.
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David Schreck talks with The Commentary’s Joseph Planta about BC politics and more.
