Ian Mulgrew of the Vancouver Sun wrote: Access to justice in B.C. is becoming more problematic for the less-than-wealthy and is a principal reason for declining confidence in the legal system. Court […]
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.
Perhaps, it’s too late already
Drawing with permission (sans title) from Stephen Gilpin The Big Picture
Billionaire Bailout Society
Here are its salient features: We promote accumulation of vast fortunes without limits. We shun progressive income taxes that could narrow the gap. We keep most of finance deregulated even after it […]
If we ain’t broke, don’t fix it
I won’t admit to learning about this first on Global TV. Let’s say that I stumbled on it during newsgathering. You should too.Billionaires for Wealthcare A few members of this organization: Bill […]
Ground-beef or slaughter house trimmings?
A while ago, Gwen and I decided to change our food buying habits. Wherever possible now, we buy as close to the producer as we can and we select ethically grown products. […]
Oversight or undersight?
The David Suzuki Foundation gives natural gas a higher score than coal and nuclear fuels but still finds its use problematic. Combustion emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides contribute to acid […]
Warning issued
New Face of Community Policing Dr. Mike Webster, interviewed by Global TV News, warns that all is not well in the Olympics militarization team with its $1 billion budget. He is worried […]
Apologies come after the Games
Lately, I’ve been thinking of Network, a great Sidney Lumet movie written by Paddy Chayevsky. It makes we wonder. Is it, finally, time to be angry? Will even that question result in […]
Credible conclusions
Doug McArthur, from SFU’s Public Policy Program, wrote comments here about Jessica MacDonald’s disconnection from levers of power in Victoria. The Prof is qualified to speculate about whether or not MacDonald jumped […]
Ethics in science
Elizabeth Blackburn, of the University of California, San Francisco, shares the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine. She and others were credited with important advances in fundamental knowledge of cellular biology, with relevance […]
Compounding regressivity
Lobbyists and media outlets, each serving special interests, push North American governments to favor regressive taxation. Unsurprisingly, the tax systems, rife with avoidance opportunities, burden the middle and lower classes more heavily […]
What recession?
If you are not regular readers of Paul Willcocks at Paying Attention and Andrew MacLeod at The Tyee, you should be. They shine light on an expense payment of $167,342 to BC […]
How to become a dominant retailer
Story from a book by Nelson Lichenstein: Around the time that the young Sam Walton opened his first stores, U.S. Congress extended the minimum wage to retail workers but granted an exclusion […]
ALC now a tool for developers
Drive along south-east Marine Drive in Burnaby today and notice that more farmland has disappeared under developers’ sand piles, being readied for construction of new strip malls and warehouses. How long before […]
Preserving nature, in all the dimensions
Doug Pyper is a photographer and photojournalist with a passion for British Columbia’s great outdoors. Today, he blogs STORYTELLER and provides links to both pdf and hard copies of an important report by […]
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty
Before he was elected Premier, Gordon Campbell wrote, When government does its business behind closed doors, people will invariably believe that government has something to hide. Secrecy feeds distrust and dishonesty. Openness […]
RCMP intention without action is useless
Superintendent Wayne Rideout appeared again at the Braidwood Inquiry and talked about the RCMP’s ability to conduct investigations of itself. Speaking personally, he said the present system results in an unwinnable predicament, […]
Papering the house
Opening and closing pageants, figure skating finals and the hockey medal round; those are easy sells. Hockey tickets for Germany vs Belarus or for sports such as skeleton, curling, biathlon, synchronized snow […]
BC Liberal movement grows stinky
How many Liberal MLAs does it take to change a light bulb? Forty-nine. One to do the job, one to supervise the motion from the Speaker’s chair and 47 to blame the […]
And, the winner is . . .
KABUL, Sept. 20 — The big winner in the fraud-ridden, never-ending Afghanistan elections is turning out to be a party not even on the ballot: the Taliban. A stream of revelations about […]
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It was a bizarre speech but really little different from many of the things Donald Trump has said recently. His…