BC Pays a ‘Huge Premium’ for Contracting Out Health Admin: Analyst Cost of Maximus contract has ballooned over its 10-year term. By Andrew MacLeod Today | TheTyee.ca Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria and the author of A Better Place on Earth: The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia (Harbour Publishing, 2015). Find…
Get more acquainted with the next premier of British Columbia (if he can win the May Election) Please visit these 3 links: Click on link below for second video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP0F8X8TfzI …
Privatization, lack of investment and broken promises have been and are costly. By Paul Willcocks Today | TheTyee.ca Paul Willcocks is a journalist and former publisher of newspapers, and now an editor with The Tyee. This report is part of The Tyee’s reader-funded B.C. 2017 election coverage. To learn more about becoming a Tyee Builder, go here. …
Here are 41 of the sketchiest things that happened during Christy Clark’s time as Premier of BC The Victoria Times-Colonist’s editorial board recently suggested Clark’s “ethical standards” do not reflect “the values British Columbians should expect from political parties.” Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail’s editorial board said Clark’s BC Liberal government is “addicted to money” and added that “the perception…
Contract reform would let locals grab share from giant multinationals, NDP says. By Andrew MacLeod www.TheTyee.ca Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative bureau chief in Victoria and the author of A Better Place on Earth: The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia (Harbour Publishing, 2015). Find him on Twitter or reach him here.…
Click on link below to read the budget problems in British Columbia Canada. The Liberal Party is failing Canadian citizens again! http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-government-wont-match-transit-funding-in-federal-budget/article34393421/?cmpid=rss1&click=dlvr.it …
One week after an apparent gang shooting outside a Surrey hotel, NDP leader John Horgan is promising to increase funding to the city’s Wraparound program to $500,000 a year. The program is a partnership between the Surrey School District, the RCMP and the city which aims to keep kids out of gangs by forging positive…
So far, LNG industry hasn’t done much except fill BC Liberal coffers. By Peter McCartney and www.TheTyee.ca Peter McCartney is climate campaigner for the Wilderness Committee. In the last four years, Clark’s BC Liberals have received over $1 million in political contributions from fracking, gas pipeline and LNG companies. Photo: BC Gov’t Flickr. British Columbia’s much-hyped…
