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.
Paul Kamon‘s foodie site Urban Diner is great for news about local dining. At the UD Forum, most participants are professionals, including owners, chefs, servers and other industry insiders and suppliers. There are […]
Rafe Mair likes to remind citizens that when preference for private power generation became BC Liberal policy, they talked about “Run-of-the-River” projects. The implication was that small, benign installations would be community […]
An advisor to Stephen Harper left the PM’s office in 2008 to become executive director for the Canada School of Energy and Environment, a “think-tank” begun with $15 million in federal money. […]
Province columnist Ethan Baron bluntly questions suitability of a BC Liberal insider acting as key advisor to Christy Clark. Online magazines and blogs including this one, have been warning about former Fraser Institute […]
Awareness builds elsewhere but the BC Government subsidizes hydraulic fracturing and enables the gas industry unprecedented access to fresh water, while ignoring the economic value of this precious resource. And they claim […]
Mainstream media, through industry associations, promise to be accurate, unbiased and accountable to readers, viewers or listeners. However, in words of Hamlet, “. . . it is a custom more honour’d in […]
Cuts announced in Tuesday’s federal budget are “the result of identifying efficiencies in operation“, says DFO Minister Gail Shea. By 2014, almost $57 million will be trimmed from Fisheries and Oceans. Read […]
This is from the Statement of Principles of the Canadian Newspaper Association. “However, the operation of a newspaper is a public trust and its overriding responsibility is to the society it serves. […]
In addition to stenography, media damages the quality of information through misleading headlines. Here is an example sent to me by an In-Sights reader. It is a Kamloops Daily News article written for […]
I’ve discussed stenographic journalists who publish statements without appraisal, fact checking or balance, even when controversial or questionable allegations are repeated. The usual justification is that somebody said something and reporters merely […]
The Globe and Mail, courtesy of Justine Hunter and Ian Bailey, provides a fawning profile of Christy Clark, complete with this unchallenged quote, “There is a lot of appetite … for a […]
Alexandra Morton reports on testimony at the Cohen Inquiry that suggests a concerted effort by Fisheries and Oceans Canada to ignore and undermine science, even their own, if it points to fish […]
Christy Clark‘s financial backer and key advisor Gwyn Morgan contemplates the difficulties faced by autocratic rulers in the Middle East: “Only a few weeks ago, instability in the House of Saud seemed […]
Risk, Radiation and Regulation, by Nancy Folbre, Economics Professor, University of Massachusetts The New York Times, March 18, 2011 Early warnings about potential nuclear dangers in Japan and about Wall Street’s propensity […]
Extracts of testimony to the Standing Committee on Natural Resources, House of Commons, February 3, 2011 Will Koop (Coordinator, British Columbia Tap Water Alliance): . . . the rush to develop B.C.’s non-renewable deep […]
Simi Sara, speaking with John Horgan on CKNW, made a plea for politicians to speak clearly, from their own hearts: “I’ll tell you what I don’t like, having done this for a […]
“In her first opportunity to raise issues of concern to British Columbia, did Premier Clark discuss the likely fallout from the June 24th referendum on the HST?” asked Horgan. “Did she raise […]
News item, The Star, Encana to buy stake in B.C. liquefied natural gas terminal “CALGARY—Canadian natural gas giant Encana Corp. is looking to tap into lucrative overseas markets by taking a 30 […]
From: Documentary Storm, Free Streaming Videos Gasland, a film by Josh Fox (Use this link, not embedded one in photo below.) H/T John W.
RE: Sean Holman’s Public Eye: Lines of defence prepared for Hochstein appointment Comment by Warren White of Victoria, sent also to MSM pundits: Palmer, Hall, Good, Bailey, etc. “FYI – the email […]
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President Trump’s Iran [“Excursion”] was war-gamed in various ways for years in advance. The advice offered afterwards? Don’t. Why the…
There are examples worldwide of methods to produce electricity that provide us with solutions; some are tried and true and…
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Historians have not been kind to elites who opposed scientific innovation. For centuries Belief among guardians of executive authority rarely…