Few British Columbia communities have been hit as hard by the forest industry crisis as Mackenzie.
Some 1,500 jobs, by mayor Stephanie Killam’s estimate, have been lost in the community as sawmills, planer mills and pulp and paper mills closed. With hundreds of good paying mill jobs gone, jobs in related service industries have disappeared at [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Danny Williams'
Where's Our Danny Boy (2)? Mayor of embattled town weighs in on needed forest reforms
May 11th, 2009 · Ben Parfitt · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability, Municipalities
Tags: Canfor·Danny Williams·Interfor·Mackenzie·Newfoundland·pulp and paper·unemployment·West Fraser
Wishing away child poverty
April 3rd, 2009 · Seth Klein · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Children & youth, Poverty, inequality & welfare
This past week, local CTV news ran a series on child poverty called “BC’s Shame”. They’ve posted the series on their website, along with the full interview reporter Mi-Jung Lee had with Premier Campbell about child poverty. The series was very good, but the premier’s comments were disappointing.
Premier Campbell spent much of the interview disputing [...]
Tags: child poverty·Danny Williams·employment·LICO·MBM·Newfoundland·poverty
Where’s Our Danny Boy?
February 23rd, 2009 · Ben Parfitt · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability
Give Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams credit for leading by example and doing what no BC politician in recent years had the guts to do: force the issue on what, exactly, the public deserves by way of public returns from publicly owned resources.
Williams’ well publicized decision in December to yank back AbitibiBowater’s public timber and hydro [...]
Tags: Danny Williams·forestry·free trade·Mackenzie·Newfoundland·pulp and paper
