Good morning, Natalia
My family moved from the prairies to BC in the late 1940s, so I'd been quite
familiar with snow in growing up. What I recall of the BC of the 1950s is that
it was booming. I was a student at UBC at the time and was very left-wing in
my views. Bennett, a Socred, and very right wing, represented everything I
disliked about politicians.
I now have to give him more credit than I did then. He ran the province quite
well and had a big hand in developing major infrastructure such as the Bennett
Dam and the BC ferry system. However, the 1950s were very different times.
I left BC in 1957 and took a job in Ottawa. I thoroughly enjoyed the snow we
have here because I was an avid downhill skier. Now that my legs have deserted
me and I no longer head for the hills, I enjoy it less.
I have trouble understanding BC's hostility to the HST. We have the HST here
and there's been no great groundswell of uprising against it. I know from
things I've read over the past few years that BC's hospitals and schools are
not in very good shape and need a lot of improvement. However, being an
expatriate, I no longer really understand what is going on there.
Ed
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Hi Ed,
Darryl and I didn't make it out here till late 2002.
Better late than never, but despite the politics, the weather and
environmental beauty make it worth all inconveniences. We don't even have
mosquitoes down in Victoria.
So, having lived here, why are you still putting up with snow?
But, how did Bennett change things?
Natalia
On 11/5/2010 4:51 AM, Ed Weick wrote:
Good morning, Natalia
Were you living in BC during the premiership of WAC "Whacky" Bennett
(1952-1972)? I was a student at UBC in the 50s and don't have fond memmories
of how the province was run at the time.
Ed
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On a larger scale, even better news. Gordon Campbell resigned yesterday
as both Premier of BC and Leader of the Liberal Party.
He won't be completing his 3rd term, supposedly because people have been
unable to focus on all the good things he's done for the economy because they
hate him so much.
It's quite remarkable that just a few days back he'd announced a huge tax
break for everyone, but it was to ease the well-deserved flak from introducing
the HST tax he claimed wasn't even on the radar at last election time. Voters
expressed their desire for an immediate referendum to the tune of about 17%
with signatures, and Campbell said fine, but not yet--we reserve the right to
put it to a vote in the Fall of 2011, the time of the next election. Meanwhile
BC will be banking the tax to make the books look good. The tax threatens so
many small businesses, but worst still, it impacts seniors, the working
classes, and the most vulnerable. Any way, his tax break announcement was met
with an irritatingly lower approval rating than before, people knowing he'd
have to cut from vital programs to make the tax breaks possible.
He's been one of the luckiest sleazy politicians to date. Privatization
of services, wholesale of old growth forests and waterways, mining, Olympics
expense and fallout, a railroad sale scandal which I think has more to do with
this resignation than is being revealed.
Anything at all good happening since the Mid-terms? What do you foresee?
Natalia
On 11/4/2010 12:25 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
Hooray for Canada! It's wonderful that all of the news isn't bad.
REH
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Michael probably heard, but Ray, or other non-Canadian residents, may
be not:
Natalia
Council of Canadians celebrates federal government decision on Fish Lake
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OTTAWA, Nov. 2 /CNW/ - The Council of Canadians is celebrating the
federal government decision to reject the Prosperity mine project. The
Environment Canada news release states that "the Prosperity mine project as
proposed, near Williams Lake, cannot be granted federal authorizations to
proceed due to concerns about the significant adverse environmental effects of
the project."
The Council congratulates the Tsilhqot'in whose campaign to protect the
lake drew the attention of groups across the country to this very important
issue.
Environment minister Jim Prentice highlighted the findings of the
federal review panel in his decision. Council of Canadians water campaigner
Meera Karunananthan and BC-Yukon organizer Harjap Grewal presented to this
federal panel on March 22. The Williams Lake chapter also presented to the
panel earlier that day. On September 7, 2010, the Council of Canadians
delivered 15,000 petitions opposing the Prosperity mine project to Prentice's
office on Parliament Hill.
If the project had been approved, it would have resulted in the
destruction of Fish Lake, also known as Teztan Biny. Taseko had proposed using
Fish Lake as a tailings impoundment area for Prosperity mine, a gold-copper
mining project.
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