How odd...no money for education, but money for bailing out redundant B.C.Rail executives who should have been gone long ago!
Everyday, it seems there is something else with this government...either another cut to a program or a handout to a fat cat.
Shame!

Not sure what BC Rail has to do with UNBC.

Costs go up; a 2% increase in tuition is not out of line with inflation.

So we should all charge 2% more for whatever we sell, or whatever we do, to "be in line with inflation"?

If your costs go up by 2% it makes perfect sense to raise your prices by 2%.

Everything increasing except for wages. To bad that did not increase, even 2% would be nice. It is okay for utilities to get 33% and 17% though. Our elderly, sick, poor and students are panicking and we all sit like lumps on logs.

"So we should all charge 2% more for whatever we sell, or whatever we do, to "be in line with inflation"? "

I think that is the reason for the name ... inflation.

How much of that is inflated prices versus inflated expectations of the purchaser, that would make an interesting dicusssion. Too many, in my mind, do not take inflated expectations in mind.

For instance, the simplest of all things, try to find a spec builder of a 1,000 sf or so single family residence these days. When I came here in the 1970s, that was the most common sf residence being built.

communication .... cable TV (remember, we used to get a couple of channels + CBC French free over the air) .. cell phones, internet, computers (a brand new commodity that almost everyone has at least one of) ... in our case that adds up to $250/month when it used to be something like $20/month .....

eating at fast food places .... same thing ... went from cooking at home, to buying frozen precooked dinners for "emergencies", to buying fast food and eat on demand instead ..... and thus resulted in the "inflated" bodies ambling around ......

And, then, as Municca points out, we also saw the widening wage gap ... some got more, others stayed stagnant.

Good one gus!
And faxman...it isn't B.C.Rail per say...it's the tax dollars that are being wasted on payouts to B.C. Rail execs.that COULD be going to things like education,healthcare,etc,etc,etc,etc,etc.
Odd how with all the cuts we are dealing with there is no money for things like education, but there is money to build things like new casino's in Vancouver?

"Everything increasing except for wages. To bad that did not increase, even 2% would be nice. It is okay for utilities to get 33% and 17% though. Our elderly, sick, poor and students are panicking and we all sit like lumps on logs."

The thing about increasing wages is that someone has to pay for those increases. In the private sector that cost is passed on to the customer and if they chose not to pay you run the risk of going out of business. In the private sector, those increases are passed along to you and me -the taxpayers. The government can either increase our taxes or they can cut services. Personally, I prefer to see services cut. (Ideally I'll like to see a lot more user fees imposed rather then a blanket increase in taxes. If you go to the doctor 3 times a month I think you should be paying more for that service then someone who goes once a year.)

I don't think many people are sitting around like "lumps on logs"; times are tough, people have to look after themselves and their families first. If there's a little bit left at the end of the month then the socialist in me is more than pleased to chip in.

BTW andyfreeze, I think you'll find that the BC Rail execs all had these things called "contracts". We can't go around ignoring those contracts just because some people in PG don't like them. (I include myself as a member of that "some")