Selling B.C.-brewed hooch is proving a tall order.

Obama is a Prius. So what is Gordon Campbell?

First, Mark Marissen played rough to deliver B.C. for the Paul Martin camp, leaving plenty of disgruntled Liberal party members in his wake. Then, he turned on the charm to lead Stéphane Dion to an unlikely victory at the 2006 Liberal convention. As the political strategist readies himself for the campaign of his life, will the victims of his old take-no-prisoners approach come back to haunt him?

Business people, political pundits and environmentalists all sing a similar tune. Lofty goals make for good headlines, but we need detailed policies if we have any hope of achieving emission targets set by the BC Liberals. The question: is the government’s climate-change war cry all bluster, or a signal of substantive policy changes that will impact how we do business?

In one corner: the town of Kitimat, with suspicions that Alcan wants to halt aluminum production in favour of selling power to BC Hydro. It’s doing everything it can to foil the aluminum giant’s electricity sales.
In the other corner: Terrace, with big plans to create an aluminum-based secondary-manufacturing industry. It wants to keep its largest employer happy and is less than thrilled with its neighbour’s mudslinging.
Let’s get ready to rumble

Everyone agrees that businesses should be ethically run, but very few companies have figured out how to make sure that all employees are reading from the same script. Without a formal ethics policy, a company can easily find itself on the wrong side of a corporate scandal

Yes, but who exactly is that? Vancouver’s business community can’t quite figure out its aw-shucks mayor – who’s been likened to everyone from Howdy Doody to Karl Rove in a wheelchair