Ian Reid is reporting that thousands of pages of BC Rail documents are newly released under FOI rules. All but five are blank. The word ‘five’ is not a misprint but I […]
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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.
What’s up at PavCo besides operating losses?
Whispered leaks say that PavCo’s professional managers are arm wrestling with political hacks who want only happy talk reaching ears of the public. Trouble is, good news at PavCo is mostly spin […]
8 BC Liberal donors = $1.3 million in 2011
Premier Photo Op: Your rich friends mislead
Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators, Nick Hanauer, Bloomberg Businessweek “I’m a very rich person. As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, I’ve started or helped get off the ground […]
Diet for a dying planet
And You Thought It Was Just ‘Pink’ Slime, Lena Groeger, ProPublica
Serving the greedy, not the needy
Wading through financial reports of BC’s two main political parties leads me to the conclusion that BC Liberals have lost interest in honest and ethical government and are now focused on lining […]
Cash for kids
Former Judge on Trial in ‘Cash for Kids’ Scheme, JON HURDLE and SABRINA TAVERNISE, New York Times, February 8, 2011 “SCRANTON, Pa. — A former Pennsylvania judge went on trial in federal […]
Scrub, scrub, scrub
TRIUMF, located at the University of BC, is a laboratory for nuclear and particle physics research and related sciences. It is funded in part by the Government of British Columbia. In addition […]
Down this road, no taxes for business
While getting refunds of every cent they pay, representatives of big business enthusiastically support you and I paying HST to fund safe streets and private schools. However, they aim to relieve themselves […]
Go away, we have something to hide
Benjamin Alldritt, North Shore News reporter invited by the North Vancouver-Lonsdale Liberal Association to “A North Shore Evening with Premier Christy Clark”, gets disinvited by one of Clark’s minions: “I’m sure you […]
Questions for SFU and Wilf Hurd
April 5, I sent an email to Wilf Hurd, Simon Fraser University’s Director, Government Relations, (Contact info), posing three questions: Have you issued a public statement responding to Jonathan Fowlie’s report in […]
Low in approval but high in cash
BCL source and NDP source Although BC Liberals report $3.1 million donations from individuals, much of that sum is given by people with specific business interests. Below, I list individual Liberal donors […]
See what happens when you split the vote
On today’s Trailing Edge from the Ledge, BC Liberal press officer Sean Leslie disclosed strategy to be followed after the party’s candidate, federal Conservative wonk Laurie Throness, fails to win the once […]
Hochstein threatens Clark and Cummins
It is no surprise that a handful of self-interested BC business folks are confounded by the rejection and disintegration of their proxy government. I’m startled though when a representative of the unelected […]
Still Looking after needy minorities – RERUN
First published May 2010. From the reliable Justine Hunter and Ian Bailey at the Globe and Mail, read HST backlash could prove to be B.C. Liberal’s Waterloo. This excerpt: Mr. Canseco, a […]
"Vote for us, even if we’re crap…"
Until recently, Paul Willcocks of the blog Paying Attention was one of the truly fine journalists working at Postmedia newspapers. Unlike some electronic epistolarians, Paul offers a fair degree of respect to […]
Cool wind map
H/T Doug Coupland. Follow him on Twitter. Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. These are near-term forecasts, revised once per hour. So what you’re seeing is a living […]
Media dam protecting Libs now broken?
Ex-MLA expensed over $2,000 to attend party fundraisers, Jonathan Fowlie, Vancouver Sun: “VICTORIA — A former B.C. Liberal MLA now working as a director at Simon Fraser University has been giving public […]
The word is malfeasance, AKA theft
http://saveourrivers.tv/powerplay_player5.html Protect salmon habitat? Protect BC consumers? Protect BC taxpayers? No way. H/T John W.
Hypocrisy "R" Us
According to cash strapped TransLink, senior executives are eligible for bonuses of 15-20 % as part of the company’s incentives plan. Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom is outraged, sort of. He thinks a […]
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