BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC When Premier John Horgan was sworn in as B.C.’s 36th premier in 2017, he could have chosen to keep the […]
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BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC The warning signs were there, but by February 27, those signs were a little too frequent and it became apparent […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC You likely missed them, but on December 30, B.C. Liberal MLA and trade critic Ben Stewart launched two tweet missiles. […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC This time last year, I was hoping 2019 would have a lot less 2018 in it. Didn’t quite work out […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC B.C. may have developed an allergy, an allergic reaction, if you will, to getting to the bottom of things. It’s […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC One person’s conflict-of-interest – real, potential or apparent – isn’t always a conflict-of-interest for another, but how do they act […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Last week the B.C. government released its short-list of three proponents each for the new Pattullo bridge and the Broadway […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity of B.C. From the deaths of 30 horses at California’s Santa Anita Park this racing season to last month’s raid at […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC “It’s your fault.” “No it’s not, it’s yours.” “Stop bickering, why don’t we all just agree to blame it on […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Over the past few days, British Columbians have been treated to a second Surrey city councillor, Brenda Locke, jumping Mayor […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC You can virtually take it to the bank. Getting elected to public office often comes with a whole new set […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Pity assignment editors in newsrooms across B.C. this month. No shortage of material. Monty’s Showroom – now ashes, after the […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Governments must dread the day they have to post their credit card charges online. Thousands of charges totalling in the […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC There’s a bit of a Swiss cheese – full of holes – feel to some of the defences put forward by clerk […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Imagine a land where drivers pay 55 per cent more for auto insurance than other drivers in Canada, a land […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC It’s that time of year again to propose a few New Year’s resolutions for B.C.’s political class and this year […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC It would seem Animal House has closed at the B.C. legislature in favour of a new production – A Taste […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC A bit of good news came out of Victoria this week, which could have easily been missed under the avalanche […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Having survived two referendums in Quebec – the 1992 Charlottetown Accord and the 1995 referendum on independence – I feel […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Istuary Innovations is back in the news this month and not for particularly good reasons. Founded by Sun Yian, Istuary […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC If you’re just tuning back in to B.C. politics, you may have missed a great political adaptation of West Side […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Echo chambers has been popular as a buzz phrase as of late, the idea that we post and share links […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Ever sense that you’ve been listening to one, or more, of these rants again and again over the past few […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC It was hardly front page news on the west coast, but St. John’s lawyer Ches Crosbie, son of former Progressive […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC There was a time when it took a new government a few years to pick up the bad habits of […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC The big money party is over and what a party it was. Given its well-deserved reputation in B.C. it’s fitting […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Could a similar question be posed of money laundering at B.C. casinos to that of the philosophical thought experiment, “if a […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC When times are tough, governments like to spin bad news budgets as a call for every segment of society to […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC British Columbia is often defined by what divides us: geography, politics, social interests, environmental issues. Something else that divides us? […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC When a political party sets rules for a leadership race and tries to be all things to all members, the […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC So you’d like to borrow $10.7 billion? Yes sir. It’s for a hydro-electric dam. Well that’s a lot of […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Who could possibly have imagined what 2017 had in store for British Columbia twelve months ago? We were all […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Difficult to imagine them getting caught dead in the same room a few weeks ago, but to paraphrase William […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Risky to confess such things – especially publicly – but there are a few things that get under my […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC It’s a story all too common in British Columbia. Here’s how CTV News reported it: “Police believe a […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC There were likely more people on the floor of the legislature listening to it than watching it live on […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC It started out innocently enough. One task: how successful were the cuts at B.C. Hydro following former premier Christy […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC The B.C. government’s proposed public subsidies for political parties may be hogging the media spotlight, but there are some other […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC There’s nothing quite like poring through 87,527 credit card charges to the B.C. government’s plastic in 2016/17. Charges that can […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC B.C.’s 2017 election will go down in the history books and in more ways than one. The province’s closest election […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC It had to have been lost in the mail. It’s the only plausible explanation. I can’t imagine any other reason […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC As the new B.C. government settles in and email accounts are transferred over, it’ll soon be time for them to […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Houston, we have a consensus. Well, almost. All three parties in the B.C. legislature now support a ban on corporate […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC They’re the stories that tug at us when we read them. Here’s one from Waco, Texas: “My 86 year old […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Athletes seek it, why wouldn’t politicians try and do the same? The little things that can help a party gain […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC It was a pretty safe bet going into election night that regardless of how the vote broke that there were […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote: “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” It’s the missed opportunities […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC This past weekend the Globe and Mail reported that lobbyists in the province have been making political donations on behalf […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC If last year’s provincial budget could be described as petty, after Finance minister Mike de Jong doled out an increase […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC Splat. It would seem British Columbia’s 41st general election is well underway. The uproar this week over news that someone […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but 2017 is an election year in British Columbia. On the presumption they’re not […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC 2016 is almost a wrap and – safe to say – one for the books. In keeping with the spirit […]
BY DERMOD TRAVIS Integrity BC It’s official. After hitting send to more than 2,680 news releases this year, the B.C. government’s Communications and Public Engagement […]