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George Affleck

Government to plug leaky election finance legislation

April 25, 2018

Legislation enacted by the B.C. government last fall to cut off “big money” from municipal election campaigns hit a bump in the road this month. Bill 15, also known as Local Elections Campaign Financing Amendment Act 2017, was earlier criticized for failing to address the influence of third parties. Now it looks like the legislation […]

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Vision Vancouver’s public engagement paradox

October 12, 2012

This post ran originally at Huffington Post BC, and in The Province on their paywall free blog. Vision’s brazen redefinition of “engagement” would even impress George Orwell I’ve got an idea – let’s add the expression “civic engagement” to Vancouver’s newspeak dictionary. “Newspeak” is the term George Orwell first coined in his novel 1984. In Orwell’s […]