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.
David Roberts, Grist, Stuff white people like: denying climate change: There’s a study running soon in the journal Global Environmental Change called “Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white […]
From Nick Turse, Tomgram, Uncovering the Military’s Secret Military: “. . . .But there are now about 20,000 full-time special operations types [like those who assassinated Osama bin Laden], at least 13,000 […]
Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers, August 3, 2011: “The new deficit-cutting package protects the defense industry at the expense of nonmilitary programs, potentially including border enforcement, veterans’ benefits and foreign aid.Shaped in part […]
Salmon Farms: Feedlots of the Seas, by Barry Estabrook, The Atlantic Monthly “I’ve visited salmon farms, read scientific articles, and interviewed the multi-billion-dollar industry’s advocates and detractors, but never have I encountered […]
From David Mitchell’s Soapbox “Then there’s Dragon’s Den, a veritable temple of rudeness, which also tells a barefaced lie about how business is done. The people who do that job for real […]
“was up at Narrows Inlet for a week plus…..taken a couple of days ago…..don’t want to see penstocks, powerlines and powerhouses in the next photo…..” Ken Renewable Power Corporation (RPC) hopes to […]
Continuing Global’s ‘expert examination’ of HST, Doug Herbert provided this from Sun Peaks on the July 31 6pm Vancouver News Hour: “The difference in price for a secondary residence pre-HST and post-HST […]
I pay little attention to AM radio nowadays. My audio library of spoken words—gathered mostly from American and European sources—is much more informative. However, while in the car last week, I heard […]
The Telegraph, July 31, 2011 “The European Commission has apologised for decades of an EU fishing policy so disastrous that the next generation of children may never see fish on their dinner […]
From The Atlantic July/August Ideas Issue, Dispatches – Food, by Corby Kummer: “[Las Vegas] a congenial city to set up shop and even raise a family. And restaurant workers who can’t afford […]
Alex G. Tsakumis interviewed Rafe Mair on The Money and Wealth Program (CHEK-TV, July 30 7:00 pm). Don’t miss the entire conversation. The two newsmen focus on topics that mainstream reporters are […]
July 30, 2011, from Associated Press by commondreams.org: “Thirty-six years after Richard Nixon testified to the Watergate grand jury, a federal judge yesterday ordered the first public release of the transcript about […]
The Resolution Foundation, an independent research and policy organisation working to improve the lives of people with low-to-middle incomes: “The share of national income going to the bottom half of earners in […]
Annihilating Democracy with the Tea Party Commentary by Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz, correspondent in the Washington office of DER SPIEGEL: Democracy depends on compromise and the American government depends on all branches […]
This is old news but worth revisiting. I was reminded because of a notice in my inbox that Capilano University is selling tickets to a lecture by Ms. Berman in September. Is […]
The Government of Canada will match donations to World Vision for East Africa drought relief. Question: should Canadian foreign aid be delivered by an evangelical relief and development organization whose stated goal […]
The Common Sense Canadian‘s cartoonist in residence. While working at a paper mill and raising two children as a single-dad in Kitimat, BC, Gerry Hummel began working as a self-taught editorial cartoonist […]
Talking about the HST referendum, BC Liberal highbinder Kevin Falcon assures us that: “. . . he has confidence in Elections BC to oversee the vote. “This is getting increasingly ridiculous,” said […]
Does any BC citizen believe that the HST referendum result is not yet decided? I, for one, think the current mail-in vote is so full of pretence that it is a travesty. […]
Section 2(b) of the Charter states that “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: … freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.” Everyone, […]
It was a bizarre speech but really little different from many of the things Donald Trump has said recently. His…
Millions of US, Americans support Trump! He is not an aberration! When Trump is gone there are many more to…
[…] I generally avoid spending money on American publications, but The Atlantic remains indispensable. Today, staff writer David A. Graham…
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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Unfortunately, about 130 million Americans support Trump according to major polling organizations. That's particularly scary and reminds us of a…