News You Can Use

In the Williams Lake Tribune:

* Tribune reporter Erin Hitchcock interviewed me yesterday about my resignation from the local BC Liberal Riding Association & my public call for Premier Campbell to retire - see here

* Cariboo-North MLA Bob Simpson calls on the Province to have a Task Force on how to proceed with the Prosperity Mine issue - See here.
(Note - regardless of how one feels' on the Prosperity Mine issue - a healing process of some sort needs to be considered & implemented because it is not healthy for the non-native/native communities to be so divided over one economic issue when, if we work together, the economy can be much stronger as true partners

* Tribune columnist Diana French discusses my & Scott Nelson's call for Premier Campbell to retire - see here

In the Vancouver Province:

* Township of Langley Mayor Rick Green has been formally censured and stripped of his GVRD appointments for the remainder of this local government term (November 30th, 2011) by Township Council for misleading them for 7 months - see here (Note - this is an rare act - it is somewhat unheard of for a muncipal council to censure a Mayor)

In the Vancouver Sun:

* Political Columnist Vaughn Palmer discusses the Standing Committee of Legislative Initiatives decision to send the HST Initiative Petition & how it buys the BC Liberals' one year - see here