What types of services should Coast Guard be responsible for, and what should be left up to either other agencies or even private industry?That's a question being raised, as the controversy over the closure of the Kitsilano Coast Guard base continues.Only 36 calls responded to by the Kits base last year were for maritime distress.Coast Guard's … [Read more...]
Should BC drop trade limits on interprovincial wine shipments?
June 17, 2012 by
Should BC drop all trade limits on interprovincial wine shipments before other provinces do the same?That's what the owner of a Penticton winery wants, as a bill allowing wine imports from other provinces moves through parliament.John Skinner of Painted Rock winery says the province must side with the industry, and not liquor control … [Read more...]
Clarks admits VIHA should have known better over contract
November 22, 2011 by
Premier Christy Clark says the Vancouver Island Health Authority staff were not following protocol when they handed a $ 180,000 communications contacts to her deputy ministers' husband, and did not tender it. When asked on CKNW’s the world today with Gord MacDonald whether she would discipline her deputy or the head of the health … [Read more...]
Should Surrey have a Municipal Auditor-General?
November 16, 2011 by
That was one question presented to candidates at a meeting hosted by the Surrey Board of Trade Tuesday evening. While current City Councillor Tom Gill says the Surrey First team supports the position, as long as the Province provides the funding, Independent mayoral candidate, Vikram Bajwa says that role should have been created years … [Read more...]
Premier says “Occupy” should pack up and leave
November 4, 2011 by
After admitting she sympathizes with their cause, the Premier says it's time for Vancouver's Occupy protesters to pack up their tent city. Speaking at the kick-off of her two-week trade mission to Asia, Christy Clark says there's more than one way to bridge the gap between this province's rich and poor. "......One of them is to do what … [Read more...]
Report cards should be essential: employer
October 26, 2011 by
VANCOUVER - The organization representing B.C. schools wants report cards to be declared an essential service and school districts to be reimbursed for services that striking teachers haven't performed.The B.C. Public School Employers Association will file an application with the Labour Relations Board today in an effort to put pressure on teachers … [Read more...]
NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang: Windows on ARM should hit tablets first, battling Intel is a bad idea, would love his chips in iPad
October 20, 2011 by
NVIDIA's founder and president Jen-Hsun Huang has never been one to dodge a question, and that made for an excellent closing interview here at AsiaD. Outside of (re)confirming what lies ahead for Tegra, he also spoke quite openly about his feeling towards Windows on ARM in response to a question from Joanna Stern. Here's the bulk of his … [Read more...]
New position should improve matters
October 11, 2011 by
The Executive Director of the Downtown Business Improvement Association says he's now in the loop about plans for the Grey Cup. Although he won't talk about what the plans are, Charles Gauthier says his association is much more involved than it was a little over a month ago when he said the DVBIA was being left out of planning … [Read more...]
Should the Park Board or the PNE be running Hastings Park?
September 17, 2011 by
Who exactly should be running Hastings Park - the Vancouver Park Board or the PNE? That's a question NPA Councillor Suzanne Anton wants answered... "the PNE now runs the whole of the park and what the neighborhood wants is it wants a different kind of authority over the park probably under so that the Park Board itself would control the park areas … [Read more...]
