Articles tagged with: politics
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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 host of TVO’s The Agenda Steve Paikin, the moderator of last night’s federal leaders debate talks to Joseph Planta about the debate, its format, Martin Short, and more.
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The political commentator and consultant Warren Kinsella provides his take on the federal election campaign thus far, last night’s leaders debate, his forthcoming work with the Sun News Network, with Joseph Planta.
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The journalist Andy Lamey discusses his new book, Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and What to Do About It (Doubleday, 2011), with Joseph Planta.
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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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BY JOHN TWIGG: Despotic hypocrite Harper triggered election in desperate bid to gain powers of a majority | Harper claimed he was forced into the election call but instead he could have softened his draconian Bills | The non-confidence vote was over his apparent abuses of Parliament and had little to do with the new budget’s array of vote-buying goodies.
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The political strategist, author, and former vice president of the National Citizens Coalition Gerry Nicholls looks at federal politics what with an election call looming, as well at The Office as Steve Carrell’s character Michael Scott leaves, with Joseph Planta.
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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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Recently, I wandered into First Used Books, an estimable shop on that strip of Kingsway between Broadway and Main. I saw on the shelf a biography of Louis St. Laurent, Canadian by Dale Thomson. Having no books on St. Laurent I bought it.
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The author and academic Mark van Vugt discusses leadership, the research and science behind it, and his new book Selected: Why Some People Lead, Why Others Follow, and Why It Matters (Random House, 2011), with Joseph Planta.
