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.
Carbon deal represents a massive transfer of public money from British Columbian schools, hospitals and taxpayers to an already profitable private gas company. …it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.
CKNW’s Bill Good took a little heat this week from callers but did his best to defend Gordon Campbell’s appointment to the OBC, ‘Maybe it’s too soon.” Good’s ire rises quickly if […]
Friday afternoon before a long weekend – the favourite moment to dump orphaned news releases. Christy Clark’s associates wanted no relationship to the September 2 appointment of Gordon Campbell to the Order of […]
Oil Exploration Under Arctic Ice Could Cause ‘Uncontrollable’ Natural Disasterby Michael McCarthyPublished on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 by the Independent/UK “Any serious oil spill in the ice of the Arctic, the “new […]
The Canadian Press Date: Tuesday Sep. 6, 2011 8:06 PM ET VICTORIA — The New Democrat Opposition in B.C. says the rules may not have been followed when former Liberal premier Gordon […]
Speaking with his disingenuousness dial set to maximum, Education Minister George Abbott talks as if the provincial government is merely an interested observer to the teachers’ labour negotiations, “We do hope the […]
There seems to be no end to small details that paint a very disturbing picture in the coastal salmon farming industry. Why do we have to rely on private citizens to protect […]
Kudos to the Times Colonist editorialists for an honest examination of the Ordure of British Columbia fiasco: …Campbell’s honour is premature for another reason — quite simply, it breaks the rules. A […]
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.” Tzeporah […]
In the preceding article, I quote Robert Reich from the New York Times. The words are worth repeating for emphasis because Reich’s points are so little understood but so important to our […]
It was a busy news day Sunday so British Columbia’s self described source for news, weather, traffic, events and features did not have time to report on the rising tide criticizing Gordon […]
The Order of BC awards were announced after noon on Friday preceding summer’s last long weekend, best day of all for taking out political trash. Apparently, Christy Clark’s Government was shy about […]
Thomas Paine, a great radical of the 18th-century, inspired both the American and French revolutions and is widely regarded as “possibly the most influential writer in modern human history.” He is cited often […]
The above is from a search of the FRPCS site of Elections BC done September 3, 2011. Searching on the name ‘Aquilini’ returns a listing of donations with a total of $530,130. […]
CBC reports: Former premier Gordon Campbell is among 14 people soon to be awarded the honour of the Order of British Columbia. The office of B.C. Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point announced the 2011 […]
Speculating with Lives, by Horand Knaup, Michaela Schiessl and Anne Seith, Spiegel Online “In recent years, the financial markets have discovered the huge opportunities presented by agricultural commodities. The consequences are devastating, […]
Testimony at the Cohen Inquiry Aquaculture Hearings hit a new low yesterday. The lengths scientists are going to cover up the marine anemia outbreak that occurred on salmon farms in the Fraser […]
Forty years ago, American (and, by logical extension, Canadian) business worried about future survival of free enterprise. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce commissioned Lewis Powell, later a Nixon appointed Supreme Court Judge, […]
Interesting report from the Institute for Policy Studies in the USA: “Guns don’t kill people, the old saw goes. People do. “By the same token, corporations don’t dodge taxes. People do. The […]
In politics today, trolls live in the sewers of think-tanks, communications firms, corporate media, old-line political parties and government ministry offices. They provide material to fill the airwaves and pages of the […]
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Osmatic Power? https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/this-invention-may-change-the-world-of-renewable-energy/vi-AA1R2wm8?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=6957ce9d73ef405c981ba17669f2cae5&ei=32 Ocean solar? https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/this-invention-may-change-the-world-of-renewable-energy/vi-AA1R2wm8?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=6957ce9d73ef405c981ba17669f2cae5&ei=32 Why Australia opted for a multi-purpose wave energy solution. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/this-invention-may-change-the-world-of-renewable-energy/vi-AA1R2wm8?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=6957ce9d73ef405c981ba17669f2cae5&ei=32 Energy megaprojects https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/this-invention-may-change-the-world-of-renewable-energy/vi-AA1R2wm8?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=6957ce9d73ef405c981ba17669f2cae5&ei=32 The…
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