The Campbell administration must think you're stupid because only an idiot would buy the spin it put on two bad news announcements last week. Example one: over the past year, the province's welfare rolls have grown by 15 percent. So the government has decided to partly bankroll those additional costs by cutting other services for low-income and disabled British Columbians. But the government tried to sell that decision on Thursday by sending out an information bulletin under the headline, "Province Protects Services for Low-Income British Columbians." Can you believe it? Well, I can because that was the second time the government tried to pull a fast one in as many days.
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March 7, 2010
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- Jan 25 2010Let's have more democracy so we can have less2
- Jan 17 2010A risk she's willing to take?1
- Jan 10 2010Back from the grave1
- Jan 10 2010Restaurateurs to be twice-baked?1
- Jan 5 2010Gregory: "...journalists drop stories they're afraid they may not be able to prove in court."0
- Jan 3 2010Say something, anything3
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- Dec 21 2009Spin cycle washes out civil servants2
- Dec 14 2009The union makes us strong?0
- Dec 7 2009All talk2
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- Nov 8 2009Open ocean2
- Nov 2 2009Intervention4
- Oct 25 2009Team sports?3
- Oct 18 2009The price of reconciliation?2
- Oct 11 2009Lessons unlearned2
- Oct 4 2009The dawn of the Conservative hegemony2
- Oct 4 2009Gregory: "What's new is old, again; what's old is new, again."0
- Oct 4 2009Bell takes a right turn0
- Sep 27 2009Slow burn2
- Sep 20 2009Holman: "...some interests are more equal than others."9
- Sep 18 2009Gregory: "...I view all such announcements with caution, indeed suspicion."0
- Sep 13 2009More than marks4
- Sep 6 2009Honesty is always the best policy2
- Aug 30 2009Don't blame the politicians - blame yourselves!4
- May 26 2008Anderson: "Liberal constituency associations are little more than political clubs..."0
- May 20 2008Tsakumis: "No balance exists on either side."0
- May 14 2008Schulmann: "...the New Democrats will be reduced to less than ten safe seats."3
- Oct 25 2007Anderson: "There is no conspiracy here, no double dealing, no hidden agenda."7
- Apr 18 2007Schulmann: Liberals 63, New Democrats 16 seats12
- Oct 10 2006Some compassion with your bureaucracy?4
- Mar 27 2006Do not walk on grass5
- Mar 24 2006We said, he said4
- Feb 10 2006Call in the peacekeepers!0
- Feb 9 2006Knoxing on Berland's door?5
- Feb 7 2006Realty isn't the only thing they sell0
- Feb 6 2006Tied with Knott?7
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- Sep 28 2005Rough and rude32
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- Jul 30 2005Quality verus quantity8
- Jun 30 2005All In The Family4
- Jun 23 2005Citizen journalism in action1
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- Jan 20 2005If only everyone could just get along33
- Dec 2 2004Are we not men? We are Devo!0
- Nov 23 2004Win-win or lose-lose?1
- Nov 3 2004You won't find this advice in a fortune cookie1
- Oct 15 2004An evening out with Kinsella and Alcan3
- Oct 15 2004The stars came out that night1
- Sep 22 2004A statement of fact1
- Aug 5 2004This isn't what Asha's Mum thinks1
- Aug 3 2004Getting ahead of themselves0
- Jul 26 2004The view from the Politburo4
- Jun 22 2004Conservative operative plots his revenge0
- Jun 13 2004Liberal candidate's husband also infected?2

