Derrick O’Keefe
Articles by Derrick O’Keefe
Don’t let Christy Clark and the Liberals continue to fly under the radar
January 12 2015 Left BankThree key B.C. political issues to watch in 2015
Since Christy Clark took over as Premier of British Columbia, she has convened the Legislature in Victoria so seldomly that it’s easy to forget …
2015: A Farewell to Harper
December 8 2014 ColumnsCanadian Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq arrives in Lima, Peru this week for the annual United Nations climate talks. Under the Harper government, Canada has been a global embarrassment on this …
Big developers retain control of Vancouver’s City Hall
November 17 2014 Left BankPeter Armstrong didn’t get everything he paid for in Vancouver’s municipal election.
Armstrong, President of the Non-Partisan Association and founder of the Rocky Mountaineer, poured in $470,000…
Vancouver election: Growing movement challenges developer control of City Hall
November 3 2014 Left BankIt’s sometimes hard not to be despondent about electoral politics.
In Toronto, the years-long surreality TV show known as the Ford brothers was finally defeated, only to be replaced by John …
One City and COPE liven up the Vancouver election campaign
October 20 2014 ColumnsThe crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.” – Antonio Gramsci.
These words from the Italian revolutionary’s Prison Notebooks are on the sign …
Vancouver election: What’s the point of the NPA?
October 6 2014 Left BankMaybe Kirk LaPointe and his team with the Non-Partisan Association are Seinfeld fans, because so far theirs has been a campaign about nothing.
The NPA, the traditional party of Vancouver’s …
Who has the right to this city? Proposal to tax empty condos in Vancouver is part of an overdue debate
September 22 2014 ColumnsIn the 2008 municipal election, Gregor Robertson swept into the Mayor’s office on a promise to eliminate homelessness in Vancouver.
The issue was the centrepiece of his campaign, even though …
Why has Vancouver’s ‘progressive’ Mayor been so quiet about the BC teachers’ strike?
September 8 2014 ColumnsInstead of going to back-to-school this month, BC students and parents are getting a lesson in class struggle. They are the collateral damage of Premier Christy Clark’s BC Liberal government and …
The Peoples Social Forum puts Indigenous struggles front and centre
August 25 2014 ColumnsThis past weekend in Ottawa, thousands of activists from all across Canada participated in the Peoples Social Forum.
With little more than a year until the next federal election, much of the talk …
With Trudeau riding high, it’s time for soul searching on Canada’s left
July 7 2014 ColumnsTom Mulcair with NDP candidate Joe Cressy, who lost the Trinity-Spadina riding in last week’s byelection. | Photo courtesy of Joe …