Opinion

My wife remarked the other day that she doesn’t like the fact arenas, art galleries and other public venues are now “sponsored” buildings with a corporate name and logo dominating and permeating the facility.

We’ve seen fantastic news coming out of the forest industry lately with 2010 exports of up by 20 per cent over 2009. This is a direct result to our government’s focus on establishing British Columbia as North America’s Asia-Pacific Gateway and the numerous trade missions to establish those active markets. But there is more to do right here at home.

Along with many others, I sat at through the Prosperity mine environmental assessment panel hearings last spring and heard the Taseko people say there was no way the mine could be built without destroying Fish Lake.

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It’s not for lack of trying.

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This week I brought my Victoria staff up for a tour of the Cariboo and a planning session for the coming year. As a “caucus” MLA I didn’t have a direct budget for staffing; an amount was allocated to the NDP caucus budget and I was assigned some staff resources out of a common pool.

We live in a world where news (good/bad) and information (invaluable/worthless) travels around the globe faster than our poor human brains can take it all in, and these days reality TV is a pervasive (invasive) consumer product that sometimes imparts more than we might want to know.

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