BC gas taxes highest in Canada

Gas taxes keep going up in British Columbia, and families and seniors are feeling the pinch. Analysts are predicting prices may hit $1.70 per litre this summer, and CTF BC Director Jordan Bateman is calling on government to reduce the 48 cents a litre in taxes it takes. Read more »

BC government's PR firms

The B.C. Government, despite spending $26 million on inhouse spin doctors, handed out $400,000 of untendered contracts to consultants last year. Read more »

HST and Carbon tax reason for BC government's unpopularity

While pundits, media and politicians ponder the collapse of poll support for the governing BC Liberals, CTF BC Director Jordan Bateman points to two unpopular taxes as the core of the problem--the HST and the carbon tax. Read more »

TransLink executives receive big bonuses

TransLink executives want performance bonuses after raising gas taxes two cents a litre, losing millions to fare evaders, and running a $30-million deficit. CTF B.C. Director Jordan Bateman says no way. Read more »

Big pay for transit police

With TransLink finally being forced to cut fat within its $1.4 billion annual spending spree, CTF BC Director Jordan Bateman points to high salaries and the transit police as logical places to start. Read more »

TransLink executives receive big bonuses

TransLink's top 9 executives are in line for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses, despite the transit authority running a $30 million shortfall, raising taxes and fares, and doing nothing as $233 million has been lost to fare evaders over the past decade. Read more »

Host of new tax increases for BC

April 1, 2012 brings a host of new tax increases for BC residents, including Hydro increases, ferry fares, and even more gas tax in the Greater Vancouver region. Read more »

TransLink has lost $230 million due to unpaid fares!

CTF BC Director Jordan Bateman has calculated the cost of fare evasion to TransLink taxpayers and transit users--nearly a quarter of a billion dollars has been lost since 2000. Read more »

TransLink's fare evasion problems

TransLink, Greater Vancouver's transit system, has a fare evasion problem--made worse by the fact they have no ability to collect the $173 fines they issue. All of this comes at the same time as TransLink wants another billion dollars in tax grabs, which CTF BC Director Jordan Bateman outright rejects. Read more »

TransLink can't collect its fines

TransLink, Greater Vancouver's transit system, has a fare evasion problem--made worse by the fact they have no ability to collect the $173 fines they issue. All of this comes at the same time as TransLink wants another billion dollars in tax grabs, which CTF BC Director Jordan Bateman outright rejects. Read more »