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Treaties changing history, one fishing hole at a time

j hunter@globeandmail.com Archie Charles has been fishing in the Fraser Canyon since the 1920s. As a boy, he journeyed 50 kilometres from Seabird Island up the Fraser River in a cedar dugout canoe. Last year, the 87-year-old grand chief of the Sto:lo ...

From JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail,  29 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Chuck Strahl,  George Abbott

Baby girl for B.C. health minister

T he eminently quotable B.C. health minister Kevin Falcon, known for his partisan and often abrasive rhetoric, was captured yesterday in a rare moment, sounding as soft as a marshmallow. He was cooing over his first child, baby Josephine, born Friday ...

From JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail,  26 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Kevin Falcon

NDP slams six-day wait to fill privacy watchdog role

T he B.C. government has replaced its independent watchdog for information and privacy six days after hiring away the commissioner as a deputy minister and leaving the work of the office in a legal vacuum. But the opposition New Democrats said yesterday ...

From JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail,  26 Jan 2010

Interim privacy commissioner appointed

T he B.C. government has replaced its independent watchdog for information and privacy, six days after hiring away the commissioner as a deputy minister and leaving the work of the office in a legal vacuum. But the opposition New Democrats say the delay ...

From JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail,  25 Jan 2010

Watchdog quits, leaving void

B .C.'s former information and privacy watchdog, David Loukidelis, has left his old office in legal limbo, with no one to scrutinize the provincial government and almost 3,000 public bodies. The executive director of the province's Office of the ...

From JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail,  23 Jan 2010

B.C.'s privacy office left in legal limbo

B .C.'s former information and privacy watchdog, David Loukidelis, has left his old office in legal limbo, with no one to scrutinize the provincial government and almost 3,000 public bodies. The executive director of the province's Office of the ...

From JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail,  22 Jan 2010

No happily ever after likely in the post-Olympic budget

j hunter@globeandmail.com *** In just over a month, British Columbians will wake, bleary-eyed, to a post-Olympics hangover. Delivering the wake-up call is the task of B.C. Finance Minister Colin Hansen, who will reveal his next budget March 2, just as ...

From JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail,  22 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Gordon Campbell,  Pat Bell

Ontario edges B.C. in green-energy fight

O ntario has leapfrogged British Columbia as the go-to jurisdiction for green-energy investments, with its promise of generous long-term energy contracts that include a guaranteed revenue stream for solar, wind and other alternative power projects. It's ...

From JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail,  20 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Dalton

Big pledge, little cash on domestic abuse plan

K ash Heed, B.C.'s Solicitor-General, vowed to deliver “huge, system-wide” new measures to tackle domestic violence Monday but has committed just $25,000 so far to support his cause. And that level of financial commitment just won't do the job, the ...

From JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail,  19 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Mike Farnworth

B.C. set to reveal domestic-violence reforms

T he British Columbia government is expected to unveil measures designed to reduce domestic violence Monday, a response to the mass murder of an Oak Bay family more than two years ago. B.C. Solicitor-General Kash Heed, who has taken responsibility for ...

From JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail,  18 Jan 2010

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