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.
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 […]
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 first indication that the UK could shift focus on energy resulted in a nation-wide ban on fracking. The next…
The US influence extends it's foreign policy to unwitting allies with the UK and Canada being prime examples. With this…
And then there is the OIL & Gas!!!!!!!
Historians have not been kind to elites who opposed scientific innovation. For centuries Belief among guardians of executive authority rarely…
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Aside from "The Chosen One'" PhD niece, Mary Trump, who is investigating the psychological side of DJT? Erika Jordan. Erika…