Keith Reynolds

Voter turnout has been falling federally and provincially. At a local level it is already very low. Why should we care?

The B.C. government has announced changes to the way local government elections will be run. One of the changes will be four-year municipal elections.

One more of British Columbia's public-private partnerships (P3s) has headed down the road to ownership in a European tax haven.

With all of the uproar over the British Columbia Auditor General's report on the Pacific Carbon Trust in late March there was a second report that didn't get as much attention as it deserves.

British Columbia's government announced it had extended its agreement with Maximus BC, a U.S. subsidiary corporation, to manage B.C.'s health information for another five years.

If there is a new government in B.C. on May 15, it will be confronted with issues that make the transition harder than most government changeovers we have seen in the past.

Maybe we have a balanced budget, but if we do it comes at the price of reckless and continuous undermining of education and social supports in B.C.

Here in British Columbia there is complete silence on the issue from both the government and the media.

One of the major topics of discussion at the annual gathering of the Union of BC Municipalities has been the taxes local governments collect to provide their services.

When even the governor of the Bank of Canada is talking about inequality and the unfairness of privatizing gains and socializing losses, we know we have gone badly wrong in our economic thinking.