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Vaughn Palmer: Seattle columnist was a fan, and sometimes a critic, of B.C.

Joel Connelly kept coming back to B.C. after proving to his bosses that his Seattle readers cared about their neighbours

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VICTORIA — Journalist Joel Connelly was in his second year with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper when he travelled to Victoria to interview Dave Barrett, then in his second year as NDP premier of B.C.

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Barrett had been instrumental in driving up the price of B.C. natural gas delivered to the U.S. in the middle of the 1974 Arab oil embargo.

Washington state’s two powerful senators, Henry Jackson and Warren Magnuson, were pressuring the U.S. State Department to get Canada to back off and lower the........

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