The Campbell crowd—they don’t qualify to be called Liberals—is willing to chop programs and degrade services to people. However, they still enjoy spending, provided monumental schemes are involved. If Peter Kiewit Sons […]
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BC Libs love regressive taxation
The single overriding purpose of the Gordon Campbell government has been to widen the gap between rich and poor. It is a self-serving plan of 2% to enrich themselves at the expense […]
Early thoughts on the budget
It wasn’t mentioned in the speech but budget making is one of the British Columbia government’s more successful job creation programs. Today, Colin Hansen brought down his third in the last year. […]
Everyone belongs to everyone else – Updated
The 1931 novel Brave New World forecast that eventual populations would be drenched by false and meaningless information and truth would drown in a sea of dross. With youngsters cultivated to not […]
Important news from Alexandra Morton
I apologize for a second email so soon, but important news on the issue of salmon farming has become daily. Most astonishing is the warning sent today to Canada from former Attorney […]
Once, there were giants
I have written here repeatedly about British Columbia’s mistaken policy of promoting private production of electricity. BC Hydro is forced to sign long purchase agreements at rates substantially above the likely wholesale […]
Only the news we want to print…
In Careless or Captured?, I questioned Vaughn Palmer’s accuracy in reporting on private power initiatives in British Columbia. This week’s Ontario takes green energy lead while B.C. keeps blowing smoke is an […]
Pigs at the trough, again
Time to bring this picture out of the archive, although I suspect we could link a story to it on many days. Michael Smyth of The Province documents how BC Liberals are […]
Blue line strangles justice
The effort continues to prevent accountability for wrongdoing in law enforcement, including police involved homicides. Who is responsible? Mostly, Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan and the Harper Government with assistance of […]
Confluence of grifters
Andrew MacLeod writes, The Tyee headlines, It Stinks Like Garbage: . . . the province’s decision, made less than six days after it came before the ministers… will benefit a company The […]
Forever hungry
Sean Holman’s Public Eye Online is a must-read for every British Columbian politico. This recent analysis of his is unconditional: British Columbians may have re-elected the Campbell administration. But they’ve never been […]
Promises that cost nothing
A long-ago Premier of British Columbia, happily aware that public attention and news coverage of his government shifted rapidly, would smirk and say, “Old newspapers are good for fish wrap.” Not so […]
A right to complain
Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President, was a racist who supported slavery and tolerated aboriginal genocide. But, he knew how and for whom government operated: Every man is equally entitled to protection by […]
Monumental monumentality
Alex G. Tsakumis, online journalist, describes Gordon Campbell and doing so, provides a text book example of word economy. When the American Psychiatric Association, which knows naught about word economy, describes Narcissistic […]
Falcon’s cry
Qu’ils mangent de la brioche! BC Liberal privateer Kevin Falcon has no sympathy, he says, for paramedics who should work overtime whenever demanded. Falcon accused the paramedics of jeopardizing patient lives by […]
About a pointless pickle
Allen Garr of the The Vancouver Courier recounts a tale worth reading. It is the story of Tom Prendergast, TransLink CEO, a transit manager with an established record of success, fast tracked […]
Join that War on Terror
BC Liberal Burquitlam MLA Harry Bloy said in the legislature Monday: . . . that 200-odd group of terrorists who came to Victoria from across Canada to interrupt the games. Anyone who […]
While you are distracted
The illusionist deflects your attention: Look at the pretty flame, the famous athletes, powerful citizens and posh people. And, feel the ghostly spirits of games past. What an occasion! Greece was the birthplace […]
Perhaps, it’s too late already
Drawing with permission (sans title) from Stephen Gilpin The Big Picture
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 […]
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This Just In https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/general/microsoft-to-use-2-8-million-gallons-of-lake-michigan-water-in-2026-for-mt-pleasant-project/ar-AA1ML7Mw Too bad about Lake Michigan. Where did you say hundred of thousands of gallons of data…