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The Vancouver mayoral advantage
I checked my work email earlier today and noted there were three messages from the NPA. That they would make a “significant platform announcement” on Tuesday, an amendment to that email and also a list...
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Letters: Portland Hotel Society scandal, Jenny Kwan, port, truckers, economy,...
Bunch of bad apples It infuriates me to read about the management of the Portland Hotel Society. Executive director Mark Townsend says the board and management had to make a “stark choice” of whether...
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Gordzilla in the City: The Happiest Place On Earth isn’t bringing too much...
When my wife and I took our kids on their requisite trip toDisneyland several years back, I do not recall having to ask her thefollowing question: “Now, honey. Just to be clear. Can you assure me that...
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Letters: Jenny Kwan, Portland Hotel Society spending scandal, bus drivers,...
How did she not know? NDP MLA Jenny Kwan was quoted as saying, “I was assured at the time by my former husband that he paid out of his pocket for the family portion of the travel expenses.” Does that...
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Editorial: Audit raises questions that need answers
The incomplete KPMG audit into just three fiscal years of the Portland Hotel Society and its shocking findings should only be considered a good start by the provincial government. Imagine what else...
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Letters: Portland Hotel Society, NDP, Jenny Kwan, John Horgan, Taylor Van...
Where was the board? I am on the board of a smaller, not-for-profit agency and I am appalled that there was no financial governance by the previous board of directors and executive director of the...
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Letters: Linda Reid, Jenny Kwan, Portland Hotel Society, port strike, back to...
First Kwan, now Reid? Now I know why Liberal minister Rich Coleman was so nice to NDP MLA Jenny Kwan about her paying back the $35,000 to the Portland Hotel Society for those free trips. I assume, now,...
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Letters: MLA spending, Linda Reid, Jenny Kwan, Raj Chouhan, Portland Hotel,...
No excuse! Legislative speaker Linda Reid wants us to believe that past practice is a reasonable excuse for getting taxpayers to pay for her husband’s trip to South Africa? Maybe the auditor should be...
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Letters: MLA pay, Rich Coleman, underage drinking, train whistles, right to...
MLAs are paid enough The sticky fingers of MLAs Jenny Kwan, Raj Chouhan and Linda Reid are troublesome. Sadly, other MLAs likely have a hand in the cookie jar, as well, and are probably “just following...
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E-Street: Given the Portland Hotel Society spending scandal, should Victoria...
I think someone who’s honest should look into these kind of things. The problem is; where do you find someone who’s honest in the system? Maybe there should be an independent body that has the...
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E-Street: What needs to be done to reduce the cost of government?
People need to start holding our fascist leaders accountable for every dollar. The government is supposed to work for the people, not the other way around. We have people in power that obviously don’t...
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Letters: TransLink, plebiscite, tax policy, Jenny Kwan, proposed building,...
Plebiscite replaces proper tax policy with mob rule Democracy is good, mob rule isn’t. Most of us appreciate the right to vote for the people who rule and run our government — the foundation of...
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Podcast: In the House with Michael Smyth and guest Keith Baldrey
The first guest of Michael Smyth’s new podcast In the House is Keith Baldrey, legislative bureau chief for Global BC television. Please join us as Michael and Keith as they discuss hot topics in B.C....
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Dermod Travis: B.C. parties’ request to know who voted is a bad idea
Hear the one about four political parties that walked into a Vancouver hotel with the chief electoral officer last September? Sorry, no punchline. But the parties had reason to chuckle. Selflessly,...
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