Darryl Walker's blog

Labour Day is a day to celebrate and a time to re-commit ourselves to the goals we have set as an organization. Read more »

“Told you so.”

We’ve all had those moments: an ugly story comes to light, and you are just left shaking your head, thinking, “I told you so.”
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The controversy over the arrival of 490 Tamils in B.C. aboard the MV Sun Sea seems to centre around how we view them in our mind’s eye. Are they refugees, or illegal migrants? Are they honest people trying to escape oppression, or well-to-do migrants paying large sums of money to get around our immigration policies? Read more »

In what is becoming one of the biggest forest fire seasons in recent memory, B.C.’s professional forest service steps forward once again to protect public safety and property.  Read more »

Every five years I dutifully fill out our country’s census and I look forward to the results. They tell us where we are as a country and allow governments, stakeholders and average citizens to form opinions and make decisions based on reliable data about our current situation. Read more »

BCGEU members are telling us problems at two B.C. government ministries are becoming more severe. The problems affect workers at the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) and the Ministry of Housing and Social Development (MHSD). Read more »

Vulnerable British Columbians are facing personal upheaval thanks to service cuts at Community Living B.C. The B.C. government has told the provincial crown agency to find roughly $22 million in “efficiencies” this year. Read more »

I had the chance a few weeks ago to reconnect with Joe Marino, the general secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union in the UK. I first met Joe in my late teens aboard a ship sailing from Montreal to Liverpool. He invited me to Manchester to meet his family. During my six-month stay, Joe and I took jobs at a unionized bakery. Read more »

I recently had the opportunity to meet again with Allan Seckel, deputy minister to the premier and the head of the B.C. Public Service.

Although we have met previously, our recent meeting was the first since the province announced an end to ‘budget related’ public service job cuts. Read more »

The recent failure of an earthen dam near Oliver, and the resulting damage to property and homes, raises serious questions about the B.C. government’s policy of de-regulation in areas of environment and public safety.
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