News Item: “Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters will be building an even bigger Wall at BC Place on May 26 next year. “In an announcement made Tuesday morning, BC Place and […]
Stadium skeptics proved wrong
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.
More Campbell associates break lobbying rules
In March 2008, Gordon Campbell intimate Ken Dobell plead guilty to violating British Columbia’s lobbying legislation. Dobell had retired as deputy minister to the premier in 2005 and then busied himself as […]
Does Postmedia need paywalls or headstones
One might argue the four traditional estates of the realm — clergy, nobility, commoners and news media — may now be joined by a fifth: think tanks. In most cases though, these policy institutes are agents of the second estate, the nobility. If one examines the most influential of the thousands of think tanks spread throughout the western world, they are mostly financed by and serving one-percenters.
One person’s voice echoes widely
Alexandra Morton has been nominated at The Tyee for The People’s Order of BC and you are eligible to vote. These words—familiar ones to readers of In-Sights—explain the nomination: Alexandra Morton has […]
Liberals reward immorality
Without ethical foundations, leadership in government is merely random wandering among near infinite possibilities. A whim of yesterday had value then but none today. No one knows what will be expedient tomorrow. […]
Shocking RCMP performance
Documents on tortured Canadian Almalki say he posed no terrorist threat, Andrew Duffy, Postmedia News, October 25, 2011 OTTAWA — Ottawa engineer Abdullah Almalki says new documents show the RCMP’s assessment of […]
The smoking gun is visible
If the linked article had been written by almost any other journalist in the province, one might wonder if it involved exaggerated criticism of a disrespected government. But, since the author is […]
Isolation in the midst of a crowd
Campbell and David McLean The bubble of power mentioned in the preceding story suffocated Gordon Campbell. Gradually, he became isolated, surrounded chiefly by people desperate to please. Track his administration from 2001; […]
We don’t see what we most need to notice
Take note America: the public is angry, Moisés Naím, Financial Times, October 26, 2011 “Over a century ago Alexis De Tocqueville wrote that Americans’ higher tolerance for inequality relative to Europe’s was […]
Patience saves a life
We are critical when violent situations involving police end badly so its appropriate to applaud an opposite outcome, when the public is protected and the threat is taken down without serious injury. […]
Will Hahnless BCF now build major ships here?
British Columbia’s shipbuilding industry is happy today, gearing up to work on an $8-billion piece of the largest marine construction program in Canadian history. The federal government takes pride in what they […]
David Cobb flees scene of the crimes
“Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.” – Shakespeare . Dear Customers, As you may know, I have confirmed that I am stepping down as President and CEO of BC […]
Redistributing wealth to pals and insiders
Private Power by the Numbers: Hugely Overpriced IPP’s Mean Soaring Hydro BillsGwen Johansson, The Common Sense Canadian, Originally published in the Alaska Highway News “…Besides having to acquire more electricity than needed, […]
Virtue in short supply
ETHICS:A matter of daily practical concern described glowingly in universal terms by those who intend to ignore them.– John Ralston Saul From West Coast Environmental Law, 11 October, 2011 In a recent […]
Online journalists saved the bacon
Gordon Campbell and PavCo’s David Podmore made an announcement in March 2010: Downtown Vancouver is getting a new $450-million casino and hotel complex to anchor its new “entertainment epicentre,” B.C. Premier Gordon […]
Street protests ignored
The one-percenters and their agents in government remain deaf. As rage at Wall Street rises, its moneymen shower cash on candidates, David Goldstein, McClatchy, October 17, 2011: “WASHINGTON — Even as protests […]
Outside noise and the jetsetter toff
No person should be surprised when Community Living British Columbia next puts its large insensitive foot into another sticky situation. Friday, after the CLBC tossed CEO Rick Mowles, Board Chair Denise Turner said about […]
Pull up some dust and sit down
This is a change of pace, i could not resist.
Willing to help with the oil resource curse
http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf Aljazeera, US troops to help Uganda fight rebels “US President Barack Obama has announced he is deploying 100 “combat-equipped” troops to Uganda to help efforts against rebels of the Lord’s Resistance […]
Phony issues from self-interested fronts
Canadian Federation of Independent Business wants municipal politicians to take the CFIB Taxpayer Pledge, committing to three principles: 1. Property Tax Fairness: “A commitment to narrow the current gap between commercial and […]
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