From our STV series in the new BC Commentary, UVic historian Ben Isitt looks to the past when he sees STV. UPDATE (April 30): It seems that there is some confusion about the term Single Transferable Vote and its applicability to the 1952 and 1953 elections. Dennis Pilon, also from U Vic wrote to say [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Social Credit'
The Ghost of Elections Past (revised)
April 29th, 2009 · Marc Lee · 1 Comment · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform
Tags: BC Citizens' Assembly·Benjamin Isitt·CCF·Co-operative Commonwealth Federation·Dennis Pilon·Liberals·Social Credit·STV & electoral reform
The Budget: A Determinant of Health
February 19th, 2009 · Colleen Fuller · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Health care
I know this budget is supposed to be good news for health, but I want to argue here that the exact opposite is true. We’ve had a lot of budgets like this in B.C., so this one is in keeping with its right wing predecessors. During the 1980s, for example, the never-ending Social Credit government [...]
Tags: budget·David Gordon·health care costs·living wage·poverty·public sector·service cuts·Social Credit
