A news magazine that provides opinion not packaged for Canada’s big business, is The Tyee. David Beers’ publication has nerve, dedication and skill. It offers the most honest and principle based political […]
Let the MSM die, we have alternatives
Norm Farrell
Gwen and I raised three adult children in North Vancouver. Each lives in this community, as do our seven grandchildren. Before retirement, I worked in accounting and small business management. Since 2009, I have published commentary about public issues at IN-SIGHTS.CA.
Victim of his disease or victim of Jim Chu?
Years passed before video surfaced showing police officer Lee Chipperfield applying a fatal head shot to unarmed Paul Boyd as the already wounded man crawled across a Vancouver roadway. We might wonder […]
Welcome to Alberta
“Alberta’s expansive wilderness boasts some of the most spectacular scenery and authentic outdoor experiences you can imagine… “With its vast blue skies, magnificent Canadian Rockies, rolling fields of wheat, boreal forests and […]
Capital punishment, without process
A video was released this week showing the ugly homicide of Vancouver citizen Paul Boyd. If you consider the video offered any new information, reconsider. This was written almost 18 months ago […]
Examining the status quo
If unlike me, you are not ancient, listen to Simi Sara at CKNW’s audio vault, May 31, 1 pm, to remember how excellent talk radio can be. This is broadcasting that explores […]
Who’s next?
Could my spouse, one of my good citizen sons or daughter, one of six grandchildren or I, or you, be shot dead by Vancouver Police Constable Lee Chipperfield, or any one of […]
Screw the needy, our money goes elsewhere
“…complicit in a complex web of legal, administrative and political strategies designed to forward a multi-billion dollar infrastructure development program to enrich the largest most profitable companies on earth at the expense […]
The voters’ choice: People’s Order of BC winner
Meet salmon farming’s worst enemy: a determined biologist, Craig Welch, Seattle Times, May 26, 2012: …It was Morton who stunned U.S. scientists last fall with trace evidence found in wild salmon of […]
Serving humankind
Christine Lagarde, scourge of tax evaders, pays no tax, Kim Willsher, The Guardian, May 29, 2012
Government – for people or for business?
Jumbo-friendly Bill Creates Municipality Without Residents, The Tyee, May 28, 2012: Provincial legislation passed last week paves the road further toward construction of the controversial Jumbo Glacier ski resort and real estate […]
Full cooperation with the law
Advance of fascism
Perhaps my concern in an earlier blog post about trending toward fascism missed an important proof. In July 2010, the chairman and cofounder of the Blackstone Group, one of the world’s largest […]
Rewarding friends, jailing opponents
Again in 2012, Alexandra Morton was not awarded an Order of BC. Perhaps she is not sufficiently distinguished or perhaps she failed to offer financial support in the way others of this […]
Salute democracy while suppressing it
In British online news magazine The Week, Alexander Cockburn gives his take on America. Had he turned eyes north, the American based writer would have noticed similar trends in Canada. “…if there’s […]
Pollution monitors kicked out the door
What would your choice be? Would you provide chauffeurs on standby 16 hours a day so that every cabinet minister could avoid the shame of riding in a taxi but still return […]
Coleman regulates the ‘independent’ regulator
if we needed more evidence that BC Hydro has become the tool of financial pirates, Rich Coleman provided it Tuesday with news that public hearings scheduled to begin a month from now […]
Liberals legislate silence from environmentalists
Virus sparks quarantine on B.C. salmon farm, Curt Petrovich, CBC News, May 17, 2012 B.C.’s salmon farming industry is on high alert after the discovery of a lethal fish virus [Infectious Hematopoietic […]
Add to your bookmarks
Keep your eyes on 2010 Gold Rush – News and Views on Vancouver 2010 (And Beyond) From Bob Mackin. On Twitter, follow hashtag #LiquorLeaks as Bob reports on Liberal friends maneuvering to […]
Say, what?
In making consumer choices, most of us don’t have time for careful sorting of fact from fiction. As a result, we rely on sources presumed to be accurate and free of bias. For years, […]
J’accuse – BC Hydro, plaything of fraudsters
BC Liberals and their media surrogates regularly accuse BC’s NDP governments of responsibility for “skyrocketing spending and debt.” Not that it matters to Liberal supporters, but we can determine if the aspersion […]
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