Articles tagged with: politics
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From what ridings to watch to the image of Gordon Campbell and Carole James, some 26 days before Election Day in British Columbia, Ian King covered the waterfront in his chat with Joseph Planta. King writes the ‘Ballotbox Bulldog’ column in Terminal City Weekly, and has his own blog up at ianking.ca.
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Besides the general election on May 17th, there’ll also be a referendum on electoral reform. From Kelowna this afternoon, Nick Loenen, a former Social Credit MLA, talked with Joseph Planta about why he’s supporting STV and why British Columbians should vote for it on Election Day.
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Adriane Carr, the leader of the BC Green Party and their candidate in Powell River-Sunshine Coast talked with Joseph Planta about how the campaign was shaping up across the province and in her riding; as well, why British Columbians should consider voting Green on May 17th.
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The danger of electing Hillary Clinton president in 2008 is discussed and argued in Hillary: America’s First Dictator (Trafford, 2005). Its author, Chuck Slate talked to Joseph Planta about why Clinton is perhaps ill-suited for higher office, as well as decried the culture of apathy and complacency in the United States.
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Denis D. Metin, an American teen who has written a vitrolic but thought-provoking book, This Great Nation of Ours: Fighting American Ignorance (Trafford, 2005), talked with Joseph Planta about ignorance in America and its government’s ignorance in its foriegn policy.
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Pierre Bourque, Canada’s internet guru of Bourque Newswatch talked politics with Joseph Planta, as well as his art career and more.
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In wide ranging chat, Global National’s Kevin Newman talked with Joseph Planta about the role of an anchor in television news in Canada and the United States, his role as an MS Ambassador for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, as well as what it was like interviewing Margaret Thatcher.
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Former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister, the Hon. Sinclair Stevens talked with Joseph Planta about the Gomery inquiry, as well as the nature of public inquiries, as well as the Progressive Canadian Party, of which he is the Chair of the Macdonald-Cartier PC Fund.
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Link Byfield, Chairman of the Citizens Centre for Democracy and Freedom, columnist for the Calgary Sun, and an Alberta senator-in-waiting, talked with Joseph Planta about the Citizens Centre’s campaign for a same-sex referendum, as well he shared his thoughts on the Gomery inquiry.
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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.
