Blogging With Baldrey

• Keith Baldrey: Examining B.C.’s ballots on electoral reform

  Voters are being asked if they wish to keep the current first-past-the-post system or switch to one of three systems of proportional representation.

  Politics

  Nov 2, 2018
  
• COMMENTARY: Can the BC NDP carbon tax plan stand up under pressure?

  Can the BC NDP government’s plan to hike the province’s carbon tax to $50 a tonne by 2021 hold up in the face of a growing number of premiers opposed to the very idea of such a tax?

  Oct 19, 2018
  
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• COMMENTARY: Does this LNG megaproject challenge B.C.’s climate targets?

  The plan, to be released later this fall, is expected to contain some ambitious targets to reduce B.C.’s greenhouse gas emissions.

  Oct 11, 2018
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• Keith Baldrey: The BC NDP and Green Party relationship is about to be tested

  Two issues are coming to the fore that may ultimately strain the relationship between the NDP and the party that is propping it up into power.

  Politics

  Sep 21, 2018
• COMMENTARY: BC NDP leaves behind past internal baggage

  Not only has the party matured, but it has left behind some internal baggage that dogged it for years.

  Politics

  Aug 10, 2018
• COMMENTARY: A bus service is a lifeline for rural riders, and the NDP government should recognize that

  Much of B.C. will soon be without a bus service and that’s alarming. But should the B.C. government step in and fill the looming void with a taxpayer-subsidized bus program?

  Jul 20, 2018
• ANALYSIS: Informing B.C. voters about proportional representation is not going to be easy

  Lack of interest may provide the side that opposes switching to a proportional representation a bit of an edge over PR proponents.

  Politics

  Jul 13, 2018
• COMMENTARY: B.C.’s high-flying Attorney General David Eby certainly has his plate full

  Eby is the attorney-general, yet his plate is filled with policies and files that extend well beyond the traditional scope of the province’s top attorney.

  Politics

  Jul 5, 2018
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• COMMENTARY: The BC NDP remains firmly in charge of B.C.’s agenda

  The answer is obvious: the NDP is firmly in charge, while the B.C. Greens have settled into a very distant backseat on the government bus.

  Politics

  Jun 14, 2018
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• COMMENTARY: Can tougher Justin Trudeau stand up to pipeline heat?

  Whether this works for him will not be known until he tests the electorate next year, but anytime a political leader seems tougher, things tend to work out for the better more often than not.

  Politics

  Jun 7, 2018