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The following piece was first published on August 2. The Stanley Cup riot review, which will be released today, is co-chaired by John Furlong. On the surface, no one seemed to bat an eye when former...
“Stop the expansion of gambling that has increased gambling addiction and put new strains on families,” promised the BC Liberals during the 2001 elections. A decade after the BC Liberals took...
Last November, the keynote speaker at the sold out annual gala for the Fraser Institute in Vancouver was Premier Gordon Campbell. Campbell's presence at the expensive event was remarked upon by those...
Pixar opened a studio in Gastown yesterday. In the video below, Premier Gordon Campbell gets very excited about it...names "thousands and thousands of talented people" in Vancouver who will...
News alerts throughout the day, well orchestrated press conferences, and events designed to showcase the province to a willing audience of writers from around the world are all part of a day in the li
A VANOC bus carrying the city and province's leading dignitaries arrived nearly a half an hour late to BC Place and the result was that the premier, the mayor and the leaders of the four host...
Premier Campbell took one step forward. Then he told the Ecotours crew in charge of the event to “hang on one sec” so he could find his “good foot." Five minutes later, he let go and zipped across Zi