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 […]
Credible conclusions
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.
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 […]
Slow ferry fumble
Judging by the increases in BC Ferries’ executive compensation, I must be missing something. Fares are up and service is down. Ridership has declined after years of unbroken growth. Something else must […]
Not easy being clean . . .
Hot day, cold fudgsicle. What else would you expect? Now fully grown, she turned out quite perfectly. Happy birthday Jenn!
Wild Salmon Circle, a citizens’ group
A RALLY FOR WILD SALMON SAT. OCT. 3, 2009 Turn the Tide – Stand up for Wild Salmon WHERE: The Vancouver Art Gallery, on Georgia between Hornby and Howe WHEN: October 3, […]
Not out of sight, not out of mind
Afghanistan is a conflict that can no longer be out of sight or out of mind. Bill Moyers made that statement to Americans but it is apt in this country with the […]
The Pundit’s Progress
In the archives of this blog, readers might find one, two or more blusters directed at very experienced—and highly visible—professional pundits. For example, I wrote that both Vaughn Palmer and Keith Baldrey […]
Stop BC Education Cuts!
A forum to help all BC parents and public education advocates stand up together and send a strong message to our MLAs and provincial government that our public school students cannot afford […]
Too good to miss
At Public Eye Online, Dawn Steele, a person who makes comments that are always perceptive and incontrovertible, talks about schools being unfunded for urgent maintenance while gigantic infrastructure projects proceed. She says: […]
Keeping BC strong
Pre-Election – The Promise Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon talks about building BC’s transportation network: We’re providing TransLink with $4.8 million to purchase a new, third Seabus and help reduce traffic and greenhouse […]
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The last thing these guys think about is a healthy society. They live in a world where prestige and wealth…