The Liberal/Con will come with but look what we got, it is so beautiful! It looks like a commercial for Imperial margarine.The cost for all the over runs the liberals have done always comes with the feel good story with these Free enterprise Coalition lots.The liberals can't do anything wrong. Now some of them want to boost the ranks of the BCCP now that the game is up on the Liberal/con coalition.They bad-mouth the ones that will fill their party very soon and tell us they are new! Go NDP Go!

Hey atleast all that money went to your union buddies to build the roof. Is it really worthewhile to start pissing and moaning now?

the most expensive roof to house a 2nd rate footbal team and a junk yard soccer team....Will we EVER see that stadium filled to capacity? NOT likely.....it was built for EXPO...hey Liberals its 2013 expo was 1996.....The entire staduim should have been blown up its a waste of space and complete loss of revenue for the city....World class city my behind...we have a mayor with a vision of no cars in a city and a government feeding at the trough....thankfully i will retire away from this dump

From the Winnipeg Free Press: Nova Scotia sours on NDP government:

A lot of Nova Scotians believe a former appliance repairman can fix the province's stubborn economic and fiscal problems-enough, in fact, to make Stephen McNeil a shoo-in for premier if an election were called today.

McNeil, a 48 year old who made the jump from small business owner to provincial politics a decade ago, leads a resurgent Liberal party that's riding high in the polls and threatening to make Nova Scotia's first NDP government a one term wonder.

The New Democrats are approaching their fourth year in power, fuelling speculation that Premier Darrell Dexter will call an election this year(unlike Manitoba, Nova Scotia has not introduced fixed term elections). But his government's sagging popularity, a struggling economy and and an unkept promise to balance the books could delay a vote well into 2014.

The NDP woes-and the Liberals gains-come despite some impressive accomplishments since June 2009, when the party won 31 of 52 seats and 45 per cent of the popular vote. The "orange crush", as pundits dubbed it, relegated a Progressive Conservative government to third party status.

Dexter has reined in spending and brokered a deal to save a paper mill and hundreds of jobs. He shared the glory when the Irving-owned Halifax Shipyard was tapped to build Canada's new fleet to warships, a deal that will pump billions of dollars into the provincial economy. Last fall, computer giant IBM announced it will open a Halifax data centre and hire up to 500 employees.

The job-creation initiatives have been costly-tax breaks for IBM, up to $260 million in forgivable provincial loans to the billionaire Irving clan to kick start the shipbuilding program-and have put the New Democrats in the odd position of being criticized as too cozy with big business.

The Liberals have scored points with attack ads urging voters to "take the chequebook away from the NDP"

And there have been plenty of setbacks and controversies to crown out these good-news headlines. Another paper mill and other factories have closed; jobs lost have offset many of the new ones created or promised.

Statistics Canada counted 5,000 jobs lost in December alone, pushing the province's unemployment rate to 9.3 per cent. With the national rate hovering at seven per cent and on the decline, it's no wonder Dexter has stepped back from the electoral brink.

The premier also has failed to deliver on a promise to balance the budget. The province projects a higher than expected $277 million deficit this fiscal year and is spending almost $900 miilion a year to service a debt that's well north of $13 billion.

It all adds up to some startling polling numbers. McNeil's Liberals, with just 13 seats in the legislature, won the backing of 41 per cent of decided voters in major polls conducted in August and November. NDP support slid from 31 to 29 per cent, barely eclipsing the 27 per cent support for the Conservatives and their leader, accountant and former political aide, Jaimie Ballie.

There's a silver lining for the NDP in these ominous numberss-four out of 10 respondents were undecided or have no plans to vote, and 3.5 per cnet margin of error may be inflating the Liberal numbers.

Dexter, for his part, appears ready to call an election as soon as the job figures and polling numbers improve.

"We have put in place a recipe for prosperity in the years to come," he asserted in a year end interview with CBC Radio, sounding very much like a leader test=driving his next campaign platform.

The government may be most vulnerable on the hot button issue of power rates. Nova Scotians pay some of the highest electric bills in the country and face a fresh round to rate hikes.

The fall session of the legislature was stormy, with the NDP targeting the Liberal frontrunner as Public Enemy No.1. A low point was reached when a government backbencher suggested McNeil's expertise on the issue of power rates was limited to "to power it takes to run a washer or a dryer."

IF THE POLLS ARE RIGHT, HE'S STILL THE KIND OF REPAIRMAN NOVA SCOTIANS WANT TO PUT IN CHARGE.

Written by Dean Job, Winnipeg Free Press

FROM PROBE RESEARCH IN MANITOBA: DEC 2012 PROVINCIAL PARTY STANDINGS-PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVES TAKE THE LEAD:

For the first time since winning a historic fourth term in October, 2011, Manitoba's governing New Democratic Party is no longer the first choice for Manitoba voters, a new Probe Research survey conducted for the Winnipeg Free Press shows.

The Progressive Consevative Party, with new leader Brian Pallister, has taken a slight lead over Premier Greg Selinger's NDP, with 43 per cent of decided voters, currently idicating that they would vote for a PC candidate in a hypothetical election (up from 39% in September) Support for the NDP, meanwhile, has dropped in the past three months (from 45% in September to 39% in this current sounding.)

THIS IS CALLED POLITICAL CONSUMER AFFAIRS WHICH TAXPAYERS IN NOVA SCOTIA AND MANITOBA ARE DOING.

YOU ALSO HAVE TO APPLY THIS POLTICAL CONSUMER AFFAIRS IN B.C. JUST LIKE WHEN YOU ALL GO OUT AND PURCHASE SOMETHING WHEN IT COMES OUT OF YOUR HIP POCKET.

YOUR HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF WHY?

WHY DID THE NDP GOVERNMENT OF DAVE BARRETT IN B.C. ONLY LAST ONE TERM AND THEN GET VOTED OUT?

WHY DID THE NDP GOVERNMENT OF GLEN CLARK ONLY WIN RE-ELECTION WITH A 3 SEAT MAJORITY OVER THE OPPOSITION?

WHY IS IT THAT IN THE ALBERTA LEGISLATURE, THERE IS ONLY 4 NDP MLA'S?

WHY IS IT THAT IN THE LAST SASKATCHEWAN PROVINCIAL ELECTION, THE NDP, THE OFFICIAL OPPOSITION PARTY HAD 20 SEATS BEFORE THE ELECTION AND ONLY 9 SEATS AFTER THE ELECTION EVEN WHEN THEY WERE OPPOSITION PARTY GOING INTO THE ELECTION?

WHY DID THE SASKATCHEWAN NDP LEADER LOSE HIS SEAT?

HOW COME SASKATCHEWAN, ONCE HOME TO NDP COUNTRY OF TOMMY DOUGLAS NOT HAVE ONE FEDERAL NDP MP ELECTED TODAY?

HOW COME THE NDP IN ONTARIO ONLY HAS 17 NDP MLA'S AND IS THE THIRD PARTY IN THE PROVINCE?

HOW COME THE NDP GOVERNMENT OF BOB RAE IN ONTARIO ONLY LASTED ONE TERM AND WAS VOTED OUT?

HOW COME QUEBEC, NEW BRUNSWICK, AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, DOES NOT HAVE ONE NDP MLA IN THEIR PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE?

HOW COME NEWFOUNDLAND ONLY HAS 5 NDP MLA'S?

AND WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR A NDP GOVERNMENT IN B.C. WHEN IN FACT YOU WOULD VOTE THEM OUT IN 2017?

DON'T BLAME WHO IS GOVERNMENT! YOU THE VOTERS ARE TO BLAME FOR YOUR VOTING PATTERNS AT THE VOTING BOOTH.

Adinal: Why is the cast stapped government of Greg Selinger's NDP government in Manitoba selling off government assets?

REMEMBER, THE NDP IS UNITED FROM ONE END OF THE COUNTRY TO THE OTHER. A PROVINCIAL MEMBERSHIP IS ALSO A FEDERAL MEMBERSHIP.

A NDP B.C. GOVERNMENT WOULD CONTINUE ON WITH PREVIOUS BLUNDERS AND ALSO THE CURRENT BLUNDERS IN MANTIOBA AND NOVA SCOTIA.

Wake up and smell the coffee!

Chandra-Herbert - Do some background work before you stand on your soap box and try & grab headlines. Fact: The casino application & review was nixed by the City of Vancouver. Fact: Telus, a publically traded corporation, not a Crown Corporation as you would have some believe, did not bid high enough offer to warrant the change in naming. Not only would this cause significant issues for BC Places second largest tenant, it was not worth the ROI. I would suggest the BC Liberals hold a public investigation & review on the BC NDP's as to the stupidity of their own grandstanding and obvious fact that they feel the public purse can be opened anytime they think they want to screw over any political opponent. Oh, and Ken280, no need to comment. You spew the same BS and message and offer no new feedback or comments - Just like your political master Dix.

for close to a million bucks they turned a nice soft pillow into the hind end of a porcupine...independant is the only way to vote , that way there is no partisan bs...

Taxpayers have the right to know how their money was spent, and whether it was spent wisely; not for political purposes - isn't that what we elect government for?

LorAx: The Catalyst Corporation was is serious financial trouble last year on the verge of going under and when worse came to worse, our present day government in B.C., the B.C. Liberal party said enough is enough, took the bull by the horns, got everyone involved, around a board room meeting and set out a plan to save the company with all the company officials, the workers, the retirees, and all of the creditors to once and for all getting an organized plan of re-organization into operation.
Just this month, Catalyst was back on the stock exchange and the company is back to normal financially.

THIS RE-ORGANIZATION SAVED ALL OF THE JOBS THAT WERE AT RISK, KEPT THE RETIREES WITH THEIR COMPANY PENSIONS AND DID NOT COST THE B.C. TAXPAYERS A SINGLE DIME.

If this is so, why couldn't the NDP Nova Scotia government done the same with their pulp mills. Instead they take out the chequebook and write a cheque in the millions to a private company and even after writing the cheque could not save all of the jobs.

WAC Bennett has long passed on, but he always said, "THE NDP COULD NEVER RUN A PEANUT STAND?"

Ken280: Speak up and tell the readers why you want a new government for a one term only. Don't B.S. your answer.

LorAx: You are avoiding the issues big time, and Kevin O'Leary would say not good enough. Kevin says research, research, research, before proceeding in barking.

GLEN CLARK WON RE-ELECTION WITH A 3 SEAT MAJORITY OVER THE OPPOSITION. THAT DID NOT GIVE HIM THE AUTHORITY TO GO AND BUILD FAST CAT FERRIES AFTER HE WAS TOLD BY HOLYMAN NOT TO BUILD THEM.

WHAT KIND OF POLITICIANS ARE THESE NDP MLA's?

Ken280: Please list the names of the readers that are not listening to my comments please.