People with disabilities in a Ridge Meadows supported work program will be out of work if the province withdraws support after 20 years. A September 10 report in the Maple Ridge / […]
Disabled losing jobs to get "real jobs"
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.
For traditional media to avoid irrelevance
Ian Reid is back at his computer station this week and that is good news for blog readers. He wrote a piece at The Real Story last October that is worth reexamination because the […]
Vaughn Palmer’s credibility: M.I.A.
In another liberal surge of empathy, Sun pundit Vaughn Palmer described the “post-HST fiscal triple whammy” faced by “action man” Kevin Falcon. He described the aggravation of replacing HST with PST, a […]
Fueling jihadist sentiment
The Terrorism Issue That Wasn’t Discussedby Gareth Porter, CommonDreams.org In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by the question of […]
Everything by the book, but books were wrong
High-rise tank is new solution in farming fish,by Arthur Max, Associated Press, from Seattle PI KAMPERLAND, Netherlands (AP) — Adri Bout trawled Dutch waters for 25 years until he recognized the ocean’s […]
Demand Creates Jobs
10 Years Of Capital Gains Tax Cuts Proves: Rich Win, You Lose, by Dave Johnson Why are “capital gains” taxes so much lower than taxes on other income? The reason capital gains […]
$20bn± procurement – no bid, no competition
The Harper Government of Canada is continuing on a path to acquire Lockheed Martin F-35 multirole fighter jets. First Canadian deliveries originally were anticipated in 2016 but the U.S. Air Force reported […]
Falcon: Revenue neutral HST an "urban legend"
When the referendum delivered an unwanted result, BC’s provincial government reshaped, polished and coordinated messages to the public. One particularly troublesome claim, made by Finance Minister Colin Hansen during the July 2009 HST announcement, […]
Jet set poseur or selfless campaigner ?
Recently, I’ve posed the question: Is there an inevitable journey for professional environmentalists from impecunious youthful idealists to zealous hustlers loyally serving industrial interests for personal gain? I made the inquiry in […]
Globe editorial by confounded ideologue
The Globe and Mail presented an editorial this week that appears to be written by a confounded ideologue seconded from a Toronto high school paper. It really is the most appalling example […]
More contempt for the public by public officials
While we consider the subject of contempt for the public by public officials, Damien Gillis provides a definitive view of its existence. In a must read report on testimony at the Cohen […]
Contemptuously serving the governing party
Chief Justice Lance Finch issued a release defending Gordon Campbell’s appointment to the Order of British Columbia. Finch’s effort at exculpation is a rare event. For the most part, Superior Court judges […]
Threat to Canada is extravagant exaggeration
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says “draconian” anti-terrorism measures that were scrapped in 2007 are once again necessary because Canada faces a major threat from “Islamicism.” Interesting fact: the Christian and Missionary Alliance […]
Dear Greenpeace, re Tzeporah Berman
Tzeporah Berman was at Capilano University Wednesday evening performing at the North Shore Credit Union Centre for the Performing Arts. Her act was promised to be an exploration of the past and […]
Schools help fund Encana’s foreign investments
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.
Tossing the myth of impartiality
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 […]
Little enthusiasm to defend the OBC appointments
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 […]
‘Uncontrollable’ natural disaster inevitable
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 […]
Horgan speaks on OBC
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 […]
Intermittent economic storms
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 […]
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