Great comments here today on the Basi/Virk misadventure. The question is: now what? The law industry believes that a few unconnected citizens can sit on the sidelines crying “Foul!” but life will continue […]
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.
Justice MacKenzie not worthy of the position
Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and jurist in the late 18th century: “In the darkness of secrecy, sinister interest and evil in every shape have full swing… Publicity is the very soul of […]
Wealthcare for welfare bums, again
Have you heard the Canadian Taxpayers Federation or the Fraser Institute economists complain of wasteful and non-market subsidies to the oil industry? No? Strange. Climate Action Network Canada
Reviews needed urgently
Ben Parfitt and The Tyee make an important contribution, Our Water Secretly Sucked Away by Shale Gas Industry, showing how the BC Liberal government operates in secret to serve the oil and […]
Might we be surprised?
Presence of Gwyn Morgan and Patrick Kinsella on Christy Clark’s campaign team signaled the right wing business coalition would remain influential if BC Liberals rejected their first choice. Now, with Kevin Falcon […]
Particle board cabinet under micro-thin veneer
Will McMartin wrote this a month ago in The Tyee about Finance Minister Colin Hansen: “Hansen was true to his word — he didn’t set out any ‘new directions.’ A new direction […]
Real commentary replaces usual MSM puffery
If we regularly saw commentary like Iain Hunter: Memo to Clark: Public has an interest, the blog world would be almost irrelevant. This is smart and well written, the kind of work […]
Horgan’s policies scare the political elites of BC
This is the sort of news we should have been hearing non-stop from the Official Opposition while Gordon Campbell’s associates plundered the public treasury. Why did it take so long? John Horgan […]
Horgan speaks sense, again
NDP leadership candidate John Horgan said today that Premier-designate Christy Clark must appoint a judicial inquiry into the sale of BC Rail and make integrity a top priority of the B.C. government […]
Older does not guarantee wiser
Before Patrick Moore bills himself as “the sensible environmentalist” and claims to have been a leader of the international eco movement for more than 30 years. Others say that when Moore exhausted […]
Regulation or no regulation, you decide
The libertarians and erzatz capitalists won’t publish this sort of headline but it’s the truth: “Millions saved in Japan by good engineering and government building codes.” Friday’s quake was the fifth-largest recorded […]
Buying influence, US style
Wealthcare, a story of unrestrained greed
US based auto maker Ford Motor Company has awarded $56.5 million in stock to Alan Mulally and $42.4 million in shares to its executive chairman William Clay Ford Jr. Here is Ford’s profit […]
Hear, hear
VANCOUVER – John Horgan committed today to pulling the plug on BC Lottery Corporation’s online casino and focusing instead on responsible gaming, crime prevention and restoring gaming funding to charities and non-profit […]
Gaming the taxpayers with ersatz capitalism
Hired guns Deloitte & Touche prepared an economic impact report for Paragon’s proposed casino at BC Place. The numbers give an optimistic view of financial benefits that might arise but, as with […]
Don’t worry, be happy
Kathy Marks, The Independent, Shell oil exploration threatens one of the world’s great wonders “Shell Oil has come under heavy criticism for planning an oil and gas drilling site that could threaten […]
Real news
In Senate testimony last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fiercely criticised the commercial media, saying: “We are in an information war, and we are losing that war … Viewership of al-Jazeera is […]
Liberal wealthcare working well
McInnes, Brown, Campbell Plutonic Power Corporation announced this morning it had agreed to merge with Magma Energy Corp. The exchange ratio represents a premium to Plutonic shareholders of 32% over Plutonic’s 20 day […]
Ubiquitous fog of political misinformation
Cutting Edge of the Ledge, a weekly CKNW segment, is a classic display of journalism gone wrong in British Columbia. The participating trio – Good, Palmer, Baldrey – spreads a ubiquitous fog […]
Wealthcare, again
First to Profit from $1 Billion Smart Meter Program: Liberal Insiders By Will McMartin, The Tyee Is anyone surprised? Will there be no end to BC Liberal larceny?
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