FLETCHER: Forest industry revitalization looks like the opposite
Old-timers remember the last time an NDP government tried to impose its vision of state...
Tag: B.C. Views
FLETCHER: NDP’s lawyer show is turning into a horror movie
This column has given credit where credit is due to B.C. Attorney General David Eby. Faced...
FLETCHER: NDP’s manufactured farmland crisis dies on the vine
B.C. Agriculture Minister Lana Popham has launched the second phase of her remake of an NDP icon,...
FLETCHER: Get up earlier, Americans control your clock too
So how was “spring forward” for you this year? The annual ritual of giving back the hour...
FLETCHER: NDP moving to massive expansion of nanny state
The featured item in Finance Minister Carole James’ budget for the coming year was not...
FLETCHER: Minority government resumes taxing, spending to battle poverty
Some brief updates for you today, starting with the Nanaimo by-election that was won...
FLETCHER: Eliminating efficiency for farm workers
B.C. Labour Minister Harry Bains has announced the latest changes to the minimum wage,...
FLETCHER: Little integrity left to protect
During the past summer of political uncertainty in B.C., there was a lot of earnest talk about...
Fletcher: Alternatives to urban drug ghettos
My recent columns on B.C.’s struggle with the growing westward migration of transients have...
Fletcher: Welcome to B.C., freeloaders
As the B.C. government spends millions on an international brand campaign with the recycled slogan...
Fletcher: Time to take MSP off life support
The B.C. Liberal government made a big show of selectively easing Medical Services Plan fees in...
Fletcher: Housing czar defends drug ghettos
Housing Minister Rich Coleman was flabbergasted at the angry response to his solution to the...
Fletcher: Protesters fear peace in forests
After 20 years of representing B.C. coastal First Nations to negotiate what U.S.-directed...
Fletcher: Urban drug ghettos aren’t working
Communities around B.C. are struggling to cope with the continued influx of what politicians call...
Fletcher: Things that are going well in B.C.
In the early days of this new year, readers have advised me to do several things. I’ll go with one...
Fletcher: Avatar sequel bombs in Walbran
Avatar, the future-fantasy blockbuster that beat Titanic as all-time Hollywood box office champ,...
Fletcher: Passages of 2015 — Stephen Harper
I first met Stephen Harper when he was running for the Canadian Alliance leadership in 2002....
Fletcher: Lights out for opponents of Site C
VICTORIA – The fall session of the B.C. legislature petered out two days early last week, as the...
A brief history of health care spending
The federal budget document began with an ominous warning about deep cuts. Social programs,...
Land sales leave lingering odour
VICTORIA – The B.C. Liberal government’s sale of Crown properties to help balance its election...
