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mafic, yeah, the NDP ran the province into some pretty hefty debt. But the campbell government has been pretty anti-education and anti-health and

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Aug 19 '09, 11:01

well, anti-everything. It sickens me how far they'll go to maintain the all-important balanced budget.

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honestly, I don't have much of a problem with much of the education stuff, and they've actually substantially increased health spending. - mafic Aug 19, 11:10 6
- There are almost no grants or bursaries available to students in BC right now - an extremely sharp decline from ten years ago. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 11:11 5
  - there are also 30,000+ more post-secondary spaces available, - mafic Aug 19, 11:15 4
    - Great, more spaces. Wonderful. Except that it's more and more out of reach to the average person, due to increased costs. - Beryllium Aug 19, 11:18 3
      - to get this discussion back on track ... let me list my current outrages in BC - Beryllium Aug 19, 11:35
      - tuition increases are frozen at inflation. in real terms it costs the same to go to UBC today as it did in the mid-'90s. -- nm - mafic Aug 19, 11:26 1
        
        Books and living costs have no such freeze. (Book prices are outrageous - I'm sure you experienced the same thing) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 11:36
In fact, I want to petition them to change their name. They are horrendously mis-named. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 11:02

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