Housing Costs.. Election Gaffes.. Losing Our Religion?

April 30, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Costs Ballooning On Vancouver Development According to documents obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation, BC Housing, an arm of the provincial housing ministry, paid nearly $400,000 in "private market rent supplements" to former residents of Vancouver's Little Mountain social housing project. Continue reading... Who Won The BC Debate What Were They Thinking? B.C. Election Gaffes Is B.C. Going Atheist? Who Won The Leaders TV Debate? I Won. No, I Won B.C. Leaders Debate Full Of Hits, Zingers B.C. Leaders Debate Full Of Hits, Zingers Racist Nanaimo Newspaper Letter Rebuttal I Won. No, I Won With Kinder Morgan, Clark Will Destroy Vancouver LOOK: Amazing Photo Taken In B.C. JORDAN BATEMAN Adrian Dix: The Unpredictable Premier? Voters want to know where their potential leaders stand before they have to walk into a polling station and put a tick next to a party's name. While it's impossible for anyone to fully anticipate and articulate every possible challenge and scenario ahead of a four-year term in office, taxpayers want a predictable pattern set out. Political leaders should be able to change their mind as circumstances change, but nothing had changed about asset sales or Kinder Morgan. Continue reading... KERRY SAURIOL Mommy Bloggers Are Working Women, Too As part of her attempts to win the womens' vote for this election, Christy Clark and her various women and mom-focused ministers have been inviting moms and working women to small round table discussions to raise awareness about what the Liberal government can do to help mothers and working mothers in particular. The biggest issue that was brought up over and over was childcare. Due to love of career or by pure financial necessity, more women are working AND raising families and AFFORDABLE childcare has to be part of this juggling act. However what was emphasized also was FLEXIBLE childcare. Why? Because working mothers are not settling back into traditional 9-to-5 positions or even the few remaining shift work employment available out there. What are working mothers doing now? We are creating our OWN work. Continue reading... MARNI SOUPCOFF CBC Should Have Stuck With "Any Race Except Caucasian" The CBC should have the courage and decency to make its casting choices transparent. If it sees a value in exposing kids to minorities who aren't well represented on television, and therefore wants to hire a non-white kiddie host, then tell us so. And be there with the guts, data, and fortitude to stand behind that decision. Don't throw the casting agency under the bus and point to vague diversity language. Doing so only confuses all concerned. It also leaves paranoid notions to fester about what kinds of discrimination Caucasians must experiencing from CBC behind closed doors. Continue reading... JASON TETRO Biofuel: What's New To Make You Go VROOOM! The use of germs to produce biofuels has been in exploration since the mid-1990s, but finding the right organisms is a difficult task. The horse rumen has a vast array of environmental bacteria and ...something else. Could this be the treasure trove scientists are looking for? Continue reading... PAUL BRENT Corporate Canada's Getting Sneakier After the RBC Layoffs The recent RBC outsourcing fiasco was so unusual, revealing and, for many Canadians, infuriating. Corporate Canada was watching as RBC flailed around amidst the firestorm of its own creation. You have to know everyone was taking notes. Publicly traded companies will be far more careful on farming out jobs. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.