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.
Joseph Brean, National Post, August 15 Paul Fromm’s efforts to rouse public opinion against the Tamil migrant ship began last month from his home in Ontario, with impassioned messages posted to Stormfront.org, […]
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My father was born in Oregon and his father and grandfather in Arkansas, although the working class family fought for the Union side in the Civil War. For years, in work and […]
RCMP S/Sgt. Bob Meredith, announcing his retirement, said: I’m going away with a feeling of great pride having served for thirty years in what is truly a great and iconic organization. The […]
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Dear Prime Minister of Canada – Stephen Harper Your proposed Federal Pacific Aquaculture Regulations http://www.gazette.gc.ca/cg-gc/about-sujet-eng.html were supposed to bring salmon feedlots into compliance with the Constitution of Canada, but instead you are […]
This guest column in oregonlive.com is worth reading. While written about Portland, I suspect the admission that too many cyclists flaunt the rules of safe riding could be made in any westcoast […]
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While industry ramps up environmental destruction, the British Columbia government moves to self-regulation while reducing royalties and increasing tax credits. Worse than financial gifts to the energy industry are blind eyes turned […]
Forbes, a magazine popular with business people, ranks the happiest countries in the world: “The five happiest countries in the world–Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands–are all clustered in the same […]
From the Ottawa Citizen, September 2009: The RCMP paid a firm in Arizona more than $44,000 for “executive coaching” and other training for its top official, Commissioner William Elliott, as part of […]
Has anyone noticed that Global TV’s Brian Coxford, formerly an award winning investigative newsman, is now doing infomercials in his reports for the News Hour? Finished the recent series for Kevin Falcon and […]
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