Premier should admit LNG dream is dead, David Bond, Kelowna Daily Courier, October 5, 2016: The evidence is now overwhelming. B.C.’s current energy policies, centred on the LNG export strategy and BC […]
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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.
State and future of BC Hydro
Opposition parties in BC ought to create a set of hearings to conduct a thorough PUBLIC examination of independent power contracts, alternative less-destructive energy sources and the state and future of BC […]
Wilderness destruction, only to enrich a few
Narrows Inlet by Duane Burnett: An almost pristine silent majestic oasis where the west coast rain forest mountains plunged straight into the fjord carved out by the last ice age, rich with […]
Financial fraud at BC Hydro?
What is a deferred expense? The term “deferred expense” is used to describe a payment that has been made, but will not be reported as an expense until a future accounting period. […]
Trusted editorial content may not be trusted
Postmedia is a company in trouble. It cannot sustain crippling debt to American debt holders with revenues from traditional advertising, circulation and digital paywalls. One of its responses is Postmedia Content Solutions, […]
The high life
The posh New York real estate linked to a US investigation of Malaysia’s prime minister, BC Liberal’s new LNG business partner. Malaysia’s prime minister must be feeling the heat. Accused of pocketing […]
Patronage, corruption and cronyism UPDATED
The September sale of BC Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights realized 577 thousand dollars, bringing the eight month total in 2015 to almost $9.5 million. In the year before Christy Clark became […]
Restraint not designed for les grand fromages
In Thursday’s CFAX session, I talked with Ian Jessop about British Columbia’s pension fund management agency. bcIMC has had attention here before and the graphs below represent information from the recently released […]
Farrell with Jessop, CFAX1070 August 13, 2015
The audio file below is a recording of my time with Ian Jessop August 13. We talk about bcIMC, provincial debt and other matters. .
Sea to Sky Highway subsidy $12-$15 each vehicle
It wasn’t on budget for the public but probably was for the private companies hidden behind the Sea-to-Sky Highway Investment Limited Partnership. Liberals are masters of public finance in one particular way. They deliver opportunities to deal makers and deal flippers, with details of all transactions hidden from view. It wasn’t long before the first flip happened on the Sea-to-Sky project.
They are friends, neighbours, family members
A few days ago, I published an item about misguided Canadian drug policies. This week, the British Columbia Coroner reported that Fentanyl was involved in 12 deaths in BC during the past […]
Bloggers miss you Bill Good
It’s now a year since Bill Good departed from his morning place at CKNW. His absence has been bad news for scribblers in the nether regions of the internet since it means […]
News not fit to print
A Wall Street Journal story, repeated by The Australian and Financial News, other Rupert Murdoch News Corp properties, is apparently not worthy of coverage by Canadian media. I found no reference to […]
Remembering the desperate nineties – Updated
Sources: BC Public Accounts, BC Stats, Bank of Canada Sources: BC Public Accounts, BC Stats, Bank of Canada A recent report from Statistics Canada, Exports and imports of natural gas to and […]
A sad and costly police affair
In July 2015, Sheila Lemaitre initiated a lawsuit that accused the RCMP of responsibility in the death of her husband, police sergeant Pierre Lemaitre. Reported by Canadian Press: The wife of an RCMP […]
Lumber and log exports, LNG and pay-to-play
The audio file below is a recording of my time with Ian Jessop July 29. We talk about lumber and log exports, LNG and political contributions to BC Liberals by resource companies.
Avoidance / Evasion: often a fine line
The price isn’t right, Corporate profit-shifting has become big business, The Economist: DURING THE TAX-EVASION trial of Leona Helmsley, a flamboyant hotelier, a former housekeeper testified that she heard her employer say: […]
BC lumber exports drop $46 billion over 9 years
These graphs are drawn from softwood lumber exports data published by BC Stats. My aim is to compare results in recent years to those from the desperate nineties when wild-eyed anti-business socialists governed […]
Ministerial responsibility dictates immediate resignation
A trial that began April 8, 2013 – seven months after appointment of Minister of Children and Family Development Stephanie Cadieux – concluded this week when Justice Paul Walker released lengthy Reasons […]
The reason you can’t see to the bottom…
is because there’s so much life. Despite growing up on the coast of British Columbia, I’ve not yet learned enough about our marine environment and the people who’ve lived here for ten […]
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