NDP Critic Krog Says Accountable Public Servants Should Perform Government Services
A SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH NDP JUSTICE CRITIC LEONARD KROG
On April 22nd I asked Attorney General Wally Oppal and the Opposition...
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Orwell's 2009: How Privatisation Of Law Enforcement Threatens Our Civil Liberties
Imagine a day not in the far future when the police is legislated into a private corporation independent of the government. Its...
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"Minister responsible for auto insurance gets 4-month suspension"
By Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun, April 25, 2009
Solicitor-General John van Dongen, the minister who has been responsible for car insurance in...
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Justice System In The Monopoly Of Financial Elite & The Legal Profession
"...less than 3-percent of civil cases filed are determined on their merits through an adjudication process. The Civil Justice Reform...
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Seated across from me next to the Judge at the Settlement Conference table were the three lawyers for the City, GVRD, and the Sewage Authority. They eyed me like sharks circling their bait. “All right...
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It was a posh restaurant in Gastown. Good Australian wine flowed freely, and the hors d’oeuvres were out of this planet. I had expected to see men in worn-out jeans and beards, kind of like those streakers on...
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Jim Carrey is a bank executive with a boring job. After being dumped by his wife he’s living a life of quiet desperation with rental DVD’s as his only companions. He gets passed over for a promotion and...
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Visit May Signal Historic Shift In U.S. Middle East Policy
In spite of efforts to turn the clock and transform Turkey back to a an Islamic country that the West can live with, the fact...
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Government A Spectator To Misleading Trade Practice
Airlines have milked from consumers, since 2003, millions of dollars of extra revenue in a misleading advertising scheme called the “fuel...
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I grew up with Bond movies. Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, and Roger Moore fuelled my teenage and post-teenage fantasies of a fun, exciting, glorious and meaningful life. What could have been...
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Simon Thumbs Down Megan Joy
I don't know what to say, I'm just shocked and heart-broken. For some reason that I don't understand, but I'm beginning to suspect, women that we love to hear and look at, and who...
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Freedom Of Expression vs. Political Will
BC Supreme Court Justice Frank Cole struck down what is known as Bill 42, or the gag law that prohibits pre-election advertising by third parties. With the May 12...
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WHY CAN'T AMERICA & CANADA FIX THEIR BORDER & TRADE LIKE EUROPEANS DID 30 YEARS AGO?
While the border issue is still fresh on my mind, I thought I should question why Americans and Canadians are...
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