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B.C. could eliminate interest rates on student loans at a cost of $34 million a year, but the minister responsible says it wouldn't help students gain access to a post-secondary education.
 
 
 
Premier Christy Clark's seeming about-face call for changes to the federal government's health-care funding plan, in order to prevent "devastating" cuts to seniors care, is no way to run the province, NDP leader Adrian Dix said Saturday.
 
 
 
Flagging in the polls, and with just 16 months to go before the next election, Premier Christy Clark has replaced her chief of staff with an influential Conservative strategist who has lobbied on behalf of Enbridge.
 
 

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Les Leyne: Finally snared by the long arm of cuts

Building a new 360-cell jail in the Okanagan was pitched Monday as solid progress on the justice front.


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Times Colonist editorial: HST lessons, 19 months later

Someday, probably when the wounds have started to heal, British Columbia's incompetent rollout of the harmonized sales tax will provide plenty of material for university courses dealing with business management, public policy, citizen engagement and more.


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Les Leyne: Shoot for the moon! Go for a bridge!

Shoot for the moon, Premier! Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has provided a simple blueprint for politicians in a particular situation to follow.


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Les Leyne: That pipeline? Province has little to say

The province of Alberta is registered as a government participant in the Enbridge oil pipeline hearings.


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Editorial: Transit heading off the rails

Bus riders, taxpayers and commuters stuck in traffic jams have a right to wonder what is going on with the transit in this region.


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Hydro cancels PR and...

B.C. Hydro has abandoned controversial plans to hire up to 25 research, polling and public relations...

Feb 09, 2012 Times Colonist » Politics
 
 
 

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