By RJ Eskow, ourfuture.org “Mitt Romney got a lot of press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that “corporations are people.” He did not go on to sing that […]
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.
By RJ Eskow, ourfuture.org “Mitt Romney got a lot of press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that “corporations are people.” He did not go on to sing that […]
‘Canadian Canary’, an always intelligent contributor in the blogosphere, left this comment on my CBC story. It deserves prominence so I am reposting the comment on its own: Canadian Canary said… “Stephen […]
An articulate piece worth a complete read at Aljazeera. Tea Party Terminators by Cliff Schecter, President of Libertas, LLC and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. “. . . After its humble […]
Asked about HST, Federal Minister of Finance Flaherty recently stated that he expects British Columbia to “honour the terms of the agreement that we have. . . “ This left the implication […]
By Dave Johnson, ourfuture.org Just ten years ago this country was running huge surpluses and paying off its debt. But then we elected Obama and all hell broke loose. Oh, wait… Something […]
During the short period of post-WWI liberal democracy in Germany, jazz flourished although conservative and right-wing movements hated Negermusik for its roots. Fremdländisch (alien) music, they believed, raised hopes of freedom and […]
Haig Simonian in Zurich, Financial Times, US presses Switzerland over secret accounts: Almost two years after Switzerland signed a landmark agreement with the US to identify certain bank customers, the two countries […]
Jane Taber, Globe and Mail, Harper takes a swipe at Turmel’s commitment to Canada “Stephen Harper took a swipe at Nycole Turmel Wednesday, arguing that at the very least Canadians should be […]
Journalist/Commentator/Blogger Harvey Oberfeld provides excellent views about street disturbances currently troubling a number of poor British communities: UK Uprisings Now, France Last Year, Vancouver in June Not Just Thugs. Harvey O. says: […]
What Does the S & P Downgrade Mean, If France is Rated Higher than the U.S. “The decision by credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the United States after markets […]
Frank Rich wrote an interesting op-ed in the New York Times a few months ago. I thought of it again after reading another story in the news recently. I think the dots […]
Licia Corbella, Postmedia News, Aug 4/11 “Ethical oil campaign aims to silence critics. Website’s ads hammer myths about energy-buying practices: Canada’s resources or ‘bloody’ oil that funds terrorism . . .” Nathan […]
Stephen Hume of the Vancouver Sun writes: “It now appears British Columbia is officially declaring total war on wolves in the Cariboo and Chilcotin – a region which covers about one-third of […]
Opinion by Drew Westen, New York Times, Aug 6/11 “As I stood with my 8-year-old daughter, watching the president deliver his inaugural address, I had a feeling of unease. . . there […]
Paul Rosenberg, ALJAZEERA, America’s Own Taliban Prior to 9/11, the Taliban government in Afghanistan did not register very much on American radar screens, with one notable exception: when it blew up two […]
Oh, What a Tea Party! by Richard Reeves, Truthdig “. . . The big winners in the budget “deal” were the people who understood the least: the tea party folk, a minority, generally […]
(Click here for 96 more everyday reasons) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said it best: “Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.” More specifically, taxes are the price we pay for the […]
This week, a mainstream media pundit, while defending imposition of HST, referred to a report by “The Independent Panel.” That, would be the BC government creation noted in a January News Release from the Finance […]
This article was posted a year ago but is worth repeating because the underlying situation has grown worse. British Columbia’s child poverty rate is the highest in Canada and the province has […]
Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star, Aug 01/11 “. . . So, months ago, when Washington embarked on a frenzied search for ways to reduce the massive U.S. deficit, a tax loophole that allowed […]
Unfortunately, about 130 million Americans support Trump according to major polling organizations. That's particularly scary and reminds us of a…