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TRAVIS – ‘Hundreds of hospital beds’ could disappear in an instant

March 24, 2020 // 1 Comment

THE WARNING SIGNS were there, but by Feb. 27, those signs were a little too frequent and it became apparent that it was time to suck it up and head to a hospital, never my [Continue]

TRAVIS – BC Liberal’s missiles over closure of trade offices in Asia are duds

January 17, 2020 // 1 Comment

YOU LIKELY MISSED THEM, but on Dec. 30, B.C. Liberal MLA and trade critic Ben Stewart launched two tweet missiles. They were duds. Stewart’s first tweet: “Just [Continue]

TRAVIS – Ledge needs to get over petty spats and into spending transparency

August 23, 2019 // 1 Comment

“IT’S YOUR FAULT.” “No it’s not, it’s yours.” “Stop bickering, why don’t we all just agree to blame it on the Speaker?” “We can’t [Continue]

TRAVIS – Government’s credit card charges reveal eclectic spending record

March 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

GOVERNMENTS MUST DREAD the day they have to post their credit card charges online. Thousands of charges totalling in the millions of dollars, it’s a sure bet someone [Continue]

TRAVIS – No pot of gold at the end of the private auto insurance rainbow

February 1, 2019 // 1 Comment

IMAGINE A LAND where drivers pay 55 per cent more for auto insurance than other drivers in Canada, a land where an insurance company may not cover you because of the city you [Continue]

TRAVIS – Drama at B.C. Legislature more Shakespeare than Animal House

December 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

IT WOULD SEEM Animal House has closed at the B.C. legislature in favour of a new production – A Taste of Shakespeare – with scenes from Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Titus [Continue]

TRAVIS – Looking for an answer to a fairly straight-forward question

November 29, 2018 // 2 Comments

A BIT OF GOOD NEWS came out of Victoria this week, which could have easily been missed under the avalanche of bad news that was coming out of the capital. British Columbia is [Continue]

TRAVIS – Time to dial down the rhetoric in B.C.’s referendum campaign

November 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

HAVING SURVIVED two referendums in Quebec – the 1992 Charlottetown Accord and the 1995 referendum on independence – I feel I might have a few experiences to share and [Continue]

TRAVIS – The mud is flying – it must be civic election time in B.C.

September 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

JUDGING BY THE MUD flying, it would seem – splat – local elections are well underway across B.C. If the campaign turns out anything like the opening acts, there’s [Continue]

TRAVIS – Was that really the best way to pick a new party leader?

February 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

WHEN A POLITICAL party sets rules for a leadership race and tries to be all things to all members, the result can end up looking more like the proverbial camel designed by a [Continue]

TRAVIS – When there’s an elephant in the room, acknowledge it’s there

January 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

WHO COULD possibly have imagined what 2017 had in store for British Columbia 12 months ago? We were all eyewitnesses to a future political-science seminar that left 87 MLAs [Continue]

TRAVIS – Some ideas on New Year’s resolutions for B.C. political class

January 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR again to propose a few New Year’s resolutions for B.C.’s political class and this year there’s a bit of a theme to the [Continue]

TRAVIS – How much money does a B.C. political party really need?

September 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

THE HEADLINES should have read “B.C.’s Wild West reputation laid to rest.” Instead, British Columbians woke up to “Taxpayers would give millions to political [Continue]

TRAVIS – Sifting through the former government’s credit card charges

September 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

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 often be on top of a [Continue]