Saturday, January 29, 2011

This Week in BC Politics

It’s the weekend, and I'm off to Vancouver at 4:30 Saturday morning to attend a meeting of the BC Conservative Party … sure hope the rest of you got to sleep in.  As always, another interesting week in BC politics, including this first letter / comment from the Williams Lake Tribune, written by Independent MLA Bob Simpson:

Your next premier is brought to you by …
Recent events in BC should give us pause to consider if it's now past time we put a stop to the influence corporations have on our political process by ...

Also this week we saw the resignation of Alberta Premier Stelmach, and you will find a story on that further below.  So read on and refresh your self on some of the stories that made the news this week.  Just click on the title to go to the full story:

Plenty left for both leaderships
... it's going to be fascinating to watch …..  
BC NDP screening leadership candidates to head off Internet embarrassments
The 23-question disclosure statement asks potential candidates to bare any legal troubles, past political affiliations or disagreements with party policy ...

Falcon dismisses conflict accusation
Liberal leadership candidate Kevin Falcon dismisses any ... Falcon makes no apologies for a political pitch made by one of his supporters …

Murray Langdon Comment
The issue of sexuality is slowing creeping into the BC political scene; not because there aren't gay politicians, but because someone who's gay is seeking …

Veteran MP Randy White back to politicking
By Neil Corbett - Abbotsford News The Abbotsford MP of 13 years is promoting the BC Conservative Party in the riding that was the longtime turf for the …

Order of BC questioned after powerful Indo-Canadian business figure linked to ...
“I do find it rather interesting on a number of things — one, three months after working for someone in a   campaign, you get the Order of BC,”  

Skills tests won't be imposed on students, BC Education Minister says
BC Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid won't impose foundation skills assessment tests on students, saying it would only escalate a political battle …

BC leadership races add tension to civic political scene
you may actually vote for the ruling BC Liberal party. For the last decade or so, the BC Liberals have become a coalition of the non-NDP ...

Opinion: Uncertainty may kill the economy
... but also the negative impact on investment caused by political uncertainty -- which BC now has in spades, and not only in relation to the HST

Randy White returns for Conservative rally Saturday
White said the BC Conservative party plans on having 85 candidates when the next scheduled provincial election goes in 2013. White was elected four times to …

Resignation impacts Alberta's opposition
Party leaders eager to steal support from the provincial Conservatives and stake out new political territory contended Stelmach's abrupt decision is a ...

NDP contender Harry Lali wants Elections BC to run leadership contests
B.C. NDP leadership contender Harry Lali says Elections B.C. should run all provincial political parties’ leadership races.

Les Leyne: HST experts won't make anger go away
It was a reminder that, for all the political campaigns underway, BC still has a government of sorts. And that it's stubbornly determined to continue ...

Polls predict Clark vs. Farnworth
PM Both of BC's major political parties face a similar dynamic in their leadership contests …

Bye for now … and have a great weekend.

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