This weeks column for 24Hrs Vancouver: Beef up BC training programs before turning to temporary foreign workers

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The winner of last week’s duel on farmland was Laila with 72%. This week’s topic: Should temporary foreign workers be allowed in B.C.’s LNG industry? For a premier so committed to providing jobs for British Columbians, the irony of Christy Clark’s trip to Ottawa — liquefied natural gas industry executives in tow — in partContinue reading This weeks column for 24Hrs Vancouver: Beef up BC training programs before turning to temporary foreign workers

Sea to Sky highway changes hands as Macquaries Essential Asset Partnerships sells 100% of their stake in the project

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**** Breaking News update:    In an interesting development which is relevent to the sea to sky news I posted today, I  received inside information from an overseas source early this evening that Macquarie Bank has shut down Transtoll, which is a subsidiary of Macquarie Atlas Roads. I was also told that Deloitte is the receiver handling the wind-down, and that in some casesContinue reading Sea to Sky highway changes hands as Macquaries Essential Asset Partnerships sells 100% of their stake in the project

Tax cuts + ensuing loss of revenue = a deliberate financial crisis…and a reason to introduce the P3 method of building

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I  have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. … I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America(British Columbia-l.y.) and that we haveContinue reading Tax cuts + ensuing loss of revenue = a deliberate financial crisis…and a reason to introduce the P3 method of building

Sea to Sky shadow toll story makes national news courtesy of Mark Hume and the Globe and Mail

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Mark Hume of the Globe and Mail has done an outstanding job of taking the Sea to Sky highway shadow toll story to an entirely new level in the Monday edition of the paper, and managed to get some rather creative answers from both Macquarie and the BC government. Truly,creative doesn’t even begin to describe whatContinue reading Sea to Sky shadow toll story makes national news courtesy of Mark Hume and the Globe and Mail