It’s week number two for the month of March – and news of Christy Clark as the premier designate begins to take over the reins of government in Victoria – and let’s us know some of the things she plans to do – and doesn’t.
Also there is word this week of the first person rumored to be looking at taking a run for the leadership of the BC Conservative Party.
All the news you may have missed, or need a refresher on – just click the story title to go to the full story.
Elections BC expense reports released Tuesday for the Oak Bay-Gordon Head recall campaign read like a microcosm of BC politics. A business group with strong Liberal ties supported the Oak Bay-Gordon Head Liberal MLA and a labour union, disgruntled at ...
Globe and Mail -- Mar 08, 2011
Departing Premier Gordon Campbell, the riding's MLA since 1996, has said he would be happy to quit the riding so Ms. Clark could get a seat in the house after a six-year absence from provincial politics. Ms. Clark, a former deputy premier and education ...
British Columbians in an uproar about BC Ferries president David Hahn’s decision to hang onto $1.2 million in canceled pre-paid trips, may be interested in knowing that his annual compensation package is $1 million dollars a year.
... wrongful political persecution.” Defending his call for legal aid to be fully funded as an essential public service, Mr. Doust said it's a key ingredient for a just society. “[Yet] our legal aid system is failing the people of British Columbia. ...
Clark's win opens door for Conservatives: MP
Conservative MP John Cummins believes an opportunity is presenting itself for a viable alternative on the BC political scene. Asked for his thoughts on Christy Clark's victory ...
... a good opportunity to provide guidance to organizations that are subject to the Personal Information Protection Act, or BC's privacy act applying to commercial, private-sector organizations and non-profit organizations, including political parties. ...
Opinion: Changes are coming for Clark cabinet
Christy Clark is photographed by a supporter after she was voted the new party leader during the BC Liberal leadership convention in Vancouver, on February 26, 2011. Clark now becomes the premier …
Public Eye has learned there is an organized effort to draft Mr. Cummins to run for that position. The effort has included raising money and securing potential financial backers for such an eventuality...
And there will be no review of the $6 million waiver of legal fees in the BC ...
So said premier designate Christy Clark during a media scrum outside the legislature chamber Monday afternoon. Clark announced she'd met with Lt.-Gov. Steven Point earlier in the day and had been asked to form a government, succeeding outgoing Premier...
Legal aid fails BC's most vulnerable, commission concludes
BC's legal aid system is failing to meet even the most basic needs and should be fully funded as an essential public service, a public commission has concluded. In a 67-page report released Tuesday
The president of the BC Conservatives says close to 50 new members have joined the party since Christy Clark's Liberal leadership victory. He says within a few hours of Clark's win …
Opinion: Clark's refusal to review BC Rail legal fees a bad move
When the incoming premier's axe fell last week, head of the public service Allan Seckel was caught unprepared. "There is a time to arrive and a time to leave, and now the time to leave has arrived," Seckel wrote in an email to his fellow deputy ministers
That’s all for now; enjoy your weekend. I’m Alan Forseth in Kamloops, and I’ll be back with more on Monday.
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