Former BC Premier Mike Harcourt has caused enormous shock waves throughout BC’s NDP by very publicly quitting the party:

In a rare rebuke from an ex-premier to his party, Mr. Harcourt cited several grievances, but pointed to the “astonishingly stupid decision” of leader Adrian Dix in mid campaign last spring to change position on a proposed expansion of a Kinder-Morgan pipeline between Alberta and the Lower Mainland.

Mr. Dix said he would oppose the expansion after saying he would wait until an application for approval was filed to take a position.

“Coming out against Kinder Morgan just finally did it for me. I thought that was so stupid and unnecessary,” Mr. Harcourt said, estimating Mr. Dix’s reversal cost the New Democrats 20 seats and alienated blue-collar workers in resource communities across the province.

Left Coast Dippers now have a decision to make: Will they remain subservient to the whims of the environmental elitists or will they move forward with a more pragmatic approach?

The Vancouver Sun’s Daphne Bramham has a stinging column out today revealing more details of the theft questionable spending choices of members of the Portland Hotel Society. Entitled “Sense of entitlement runs rampant among political and community leaders”, here’s a snippet:

There’s a surprising lack of character in evidence these days among our free-spending, entitled-seeming political and community leaders.
Even though many are better paid than ever, it still doesn’t seem to be enough.
Here’s my theory: The people working for the public good are rankled that guys like the wolves on Wall Street are making so much more money and, for what?
So, when some of those who are supposedly working to save the world have the opportunity to pamper themselves at someone else’s expense, they feel entitled to take it. After all, they’re the hard-working good guys.