Gordon Campbell

NDP MLAs rip Liberals for cancelling B.C. legislative session

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008

If Premier Gordon Campbell won't do the people's business, B.C.'s New Democratic Party MLA's say they will.

NDP poll surge illustrates a parliamentary system at its best

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008

In Victoria, when rumours first surfaced in June of a poll showing the NDP running neck-and-neck with the Liberals, few political observers believed them. After all, Opposition Leader Carole James had been trailing Premier Gordon Campbell by double digits almost since the past election. And, not to be too cruel about it, most of these observers had written her off in the next election.

Campbell may have his populist groove back, but voters never forget

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008

Was that the old, populist politician Gordon Campbell in a hard hat, driving the big yellow excavator to demolish a toll booth on the Coquihalla yesterday'Just as it was looking like someone stole his mojo, the B.C. Premier has resurrected a little of the tax-cutting, red-tape-slashing champion who so handily defeated the New Democratic Party government in 2001.

Demolition of Coquihalla toll booth underway

News1130 - All News Radio (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008

The process of decommissioning the toll booths on the Coquihalla Highway is officially underway. Premier Gordon Campbell and Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon took part in a ceremony this morning kicking ...

Keep the promise: Protect the Great Bear Rainforest

A Free Man's Life (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008

Dear Premier Gordon Campbell, A promise is a promise: Protect the Great Bear Rainforest I am writing to remind you that the world expects nothing less than the full implementation of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement by March 31, 2009, including ecologically sound forestry practices. With just a few months to go before the final March deadline, I am concerned that critical elements of your promise...

Campbell revs up to demolish Coquihalla tollbooths

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell has scheduled a little demolition derby with his Transporation Minister Kevin Falcon Thursday morning on the Coquihalla highway.

Campbell calls two by-elections for Oct. 29

Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008

Premier Gordon Campbell has called two Vancouver area by-elections for Oct. 29.The Vancouver-Burrard seat was vacated by Liberal Lorne Mayencourt, who resigned in September to become a candidate in the current federal election for the Conservative Party.

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B.C. Premier calls 2 byelections for vacant Vancouver ridings

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008

Premier Gordon Campbell has called two byelections for the Lower Mainland ridings of Vancouver-Burrard and Vancouver-Fairview electoral districts for Oct. 29, 2008.

One downside to news Coquihalla tolls scrapped

News1130 - All News Radio (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008

Critics of Gordon Campbell are having a field day with this one. It turns out there is a downside to his recent announcement that the tolls on the Coquihalla are being scrapped. Just seven months ago ...

Romios Gold Resources Inc.: Romios Gold Resources Pleased With British Columbia Government's Initiative to Advance the Northwestern Power Line

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Romios Gold Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: RG)(OTCBB: RMIOF)(FRANKFURT: D4R) is pleased to hear that Premier Gordon Campbell, and the Province of British Columbia have announced to immediately start the environmental assessment process and First Nations Consultation on the Northwest Transmission Line (NTL) along Highway 37.

Toll removal takes highway workers by surprise

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008

A Coquihalla Highway toll worker says motorists knew the tolls were coming off the highway before he did.Premier Gordon Campbell made the surprise announcement about the end of the highway tolls during a speech to the Union of B.C. Municipalities in Penticton, B.C., on Friday.

The carbon tax has come back to haunt B.C.'s Liberals

Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008

The idea of a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is dying politically in the place where it was born: British Columbia.The provincial tax's growing unpopularity is threatening Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell's grip on power, while the very notion of a federal carbon tax, even if offset by lower personal income taxes, is crippling the federal Liberal Party in the province.

B.C. Premier, Emerson Slam NDP for Promise to Negotiate New Softwood Deal

Thompson Ahern E-News (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008

(Globe & Mail) NDP Leader Jack Layton was roundly criticized Friday for proposing to tear up the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement, with both B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and former international trade minister David Emerson saying the idea is preposterous. The B.C. Premier waded into the federal election campaign for the first time Friday, denouncing Mr. Layton’s stance on softwood. The deal,...

Tolls removed from Coquihalla Highway in B.C.

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008

A shortcut from Seattle and Vancouver to the British Columbia interior has nearly been paid off, so Premier Gordon Campbell has decided to quit charging tolls on the Coquihalla Highway.

Tolls removed from Coquihalla Highway in B.C.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008

PENTICTON, British Columbia -- A shortcut from Seattle and Vancouver to the British Columbia interior has nearly been paid off, so Premier Gordon Campbell has decided to quit charging tolls on the Coquihalla Highway.