CBC Vancouver News reports that Torstar, owner of Toronto’s largest paper, is in the running to take over financially and intellectually bankrupt Canwest Newspapers. To determine if this might be an unsatisfactory […]
Today’s wtf moment
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.
Cry for British Columbia
First published October 18 2009, this issue rises back to the top because the proposed Victoria marina has cleared another roadblock. Abraham Lincoln said: Democracy is the government of the people, by […]
More regulation and smarter regulation
New York writer Joe Conason is one of the sharpest political commentators around and one of the most accessible. He writes at Truthdig.com, an online news magazine for progressive voices: . . […]
Two hits and a miss
A two day visit to Victoria this week allowed me to gather information that will prove useful to future writing in Northern Insights. I met people who were informative and furthered my […]
Reader contribution
Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Quesnel Advertiser Newspaper in Quesnel, BC and bought a mule for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day. The next […]
Best way to rob a bank is to own one, an anti-regulation story
PBS program Bill Moyers Journal has been available by broadcast, podcast and online transcript. Moyers is proudly a long time bane to public injustice and America’s military industrial complex. Also, of course, […]
Russian rebellion
As British Columbian’s learned during the Olympics, important people must never waste time standing in lines or sitting in slow moving traffic. That is for people of lesser purpose. Muscovites know this […]
Final solution
Item: Vancouver school year shortened 10 days to deal with a budget shortfall. Item: Between the 2001–02 and 2008–09 school years, 176 public schools in BC have been closed, unprecedented in BC […]
Leadership race warming?
Victoria pundit Les Layne says, “Before she became a very adroit politician, [Carole] Taylor was a veteran broadcaster. She never says anything by accident.” B.C.’s Carole Taylor joins outcry against HSTBy Justine […]
Markets – incorruptible gods, unless they are not
Indisputable evidence that self-regulation leads to disaster, one more example:From McClatchy Newspapers, Apr 22/09 WASHINGTON — A Senate panel investigating the causes of the nation’s financial crisis on Thursday unveiled evidence that […]
Site C – first purpose
On April 10, Northern Insights reported that Liberals will force BC Hydro to provide firm-power to private producers for export. Privates want a choice of selling to BC Hydro or contracting with […]
Modern public service
Justice Department lawyer Alain Prefontaine would not provide a date for the Military Police Complaints Commission as when it could expect the release of documents relating to the transfer of prisoners by […]
Voters have not forgiven . . .
On April 17, AngusReid Public Opinions published a poll on the British Columbia political scene. BC Liberals Plummet as HST looms; British Columbians Want a New Party This is the analysis provided […]
The fix was in
Harvey Oberfeld may be the éminence grise of the western Canadian blog world. Or, perhaps I should rephrase that to the more respectable ‘world of online journalism.’ He says he writes now […]
Sandler said, "I can’t stand the abuse of power. . . ‘
Northern Insights / Perceptivity repeatedly directs readers to ProPublica, an American non-profit investigative news agency. I link to that site because it is one of the most useful sources of original news. […]
Crown Prince of Untruth speaks
Backed against the wall, British Columbia’s Crown Prince of Untruth complains about Vander Zalm’s veracity? It could only be more absurd had King Gordon spoke those words. Absurdity, thy home is British […]
When regulators do not believe in regulation
I began writing an article about tobacco companies convicted of multi-billion dollar fraud through smuggling schemes to escape punitive taxation of poisonous products sold to slow-witted youth and the addicted. I thought […]
BBC Radio 4 – audience participation
I get a political fix from the BBC Radio4 Now Show
When the lead story is nothing at all
Would you be surprised if the federal government announced they were going to begin checking airliners for missing jet engines, pilots for defective vision or horses on the payroll for signs of […]
Influence byond reason – Rerun
Update:People involved with a certain unnamed think tank have been making noises about articles in a certain unnamed blog. They are concerned about that which is politely called “publication of allegedly defamatory […]
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