Thursday July 24, 2008
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Will Canadians support a hard-nosed approach to climate change?
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Online Edition: Monday, July 14, 2008 07:38 AM
Stephen Harper is wagering that voters will back a firm foreign policy on the issue of climate change. Maybe he's right. But it's no sure bet.
Will Canadians support a hard-nosed approach to climate change?
Published: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:00 AM Page A13
Judging from his performance at last week's G8 meeting, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is wagering that voters will back a firm foreign policy on the issue of climate change. Maybe he's right but, based on the Afghanistan war experience, it's no sure bet.
All the pain Campbell's inflicting could well be for naught
Published: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:00 AM Page S1
Tomorrow, as we begin paying Premier Gordon Campbell's new tax at the pumps, television cameras will be on the hunt - notwithstanding the Canada Day holiday - for signs advertising gas at a buck and a half a litre. Meanwhile, Mr. Campbell's isolation has become increasingly apparent to anyone who's cared to look.
When saying sorry is saying nothing at all
Published: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:00 AM Page S2
Listening to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's apology last week, my thoughts kept wandering to Premier Gordon Campbell's ''new relationship'' with aboriginal peoples. We've not heard much lately from him on that subject, though he seemed for a time to be on a personal mission. And we're still left to wonder why - on an issue included in the Liberals' 2005 election platform - Mr. Campbell allowed his caucus a free vote when the Tsawwassen treaty came before the legislature.
Mr. Dion might want to look beyond B.C. for an eco-tax model
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Online Edition: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 08:00 AM
Will Dion favour a carbon tax?
Mr. Dion might want to look beyond B.C. for an eco-tax model
Published: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 12:00 AM Page A19
According to news reports, Opposition Leader Stephane Dion will soon come out in support of a federal carbon tax. His advisers, we're told, have been impressed by the favourable response to B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell's tax, and believe the proposal could help their beleaguered leader win the next election. Not so fast, you guys. We're also told that some of Mr. Dion's Ontario MPs are nervous. They should be.
Premier courting trouble, risking reputation
Published: Monday, June 2, 2008 12:00 AM Page S1
No one should be surprised that Premier Gordon Campbell's Liberals were mauled during the spring session of the legislature, which wound up last week. The legislature is traditionally the opposition's forum, and governments, playing defence, rarely win the day.
Dismissal, Harper style
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Online Edition: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 07:26 AM
Maxime Bernier arrived in Ottawa with less than a stellar political reputation. His bungling in Ottawa showed why.
Dismissal, Harper style
Published: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:00 AM Page A17
Maxime Bernier arrived in Ottawa with less than a stellar political reputation. An aide to Bernard Landry in the 1990s, when Mr. Landry was finance minister in Lucien Bouchard's PQ government, Mr. Bernier was responsible for financial institutions. Former associates remember him as a serial bungler, and for being indiscreet.
Why is Vancouver only city with an Insite?
Published: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:00 AM Page S1
My take on Insite is pretty much the same as my take on the tax we'll soon be paying at the pumps thanks to Premier Gordon Campbell having gone green: If a supervised drug-injection site is such a grand idea, how is it that Ontario doesn't have one?
