Great comments here today on the Basi/Virk misadventure. The question is: now what? The law industry believes that a few unconnected citizens can sit on the sidelines crying “Foul!” but life will continue […]
Horgan’s policies scare the political elites of BC
This is the sort of news we should have been hearing non-stop from the Official Opposition while Gordon Campbell’s associates plundered the public treasury. Why did it take so long? John Horgan […]
Politicians – gilt edged investments
2003, Dr. Marvin Rosenau, senior fisheries biologist with the BC environment ministry, warned that a residential development proposed for Mission would destroy the only urban ecosystem of its type between California and British Columbia. The […]
Behind the screen in the wizard’s chamber, we have . . .
There is unusually heavy traffic here for a Saturday evening so I assume readers are looking for a reaction to today’s anointment of The Progressive Group’s selection as Premier. I was already […]
Odd couple – government and truth
New York Times reports a dodgy technician with a penchant for gambling wagered that Republican contacts, irrational fear of terrorism and dubious technology were cards for a winning hand. Indeed, he earned […]
From the highly principled world of business
News item from Financial Times Hedge fund managers are hiring security firms to sweep their offices and homes for listening devices, security experts say, in reaction to the US government’s insider trading […]
Madoff investors victimized twice
The army of lawyers and consultants helping to recover funds from Bernard Madoff’s fraud stands to earn more than $1.3 billion in fees, according to new figures that detail the cost of […]
Hansen – true to his word, sort of
Will McMartin notes the Finance Minister is unchanged, “Hansen was true to his word — he didn’t set out any ‘new directions.’ A new direction for a BC Liberal finance minister would […]
Report Card failure
SFU Prof Donald Gutstein is expert on the Fraser Institute. It recently published the annual schools report card and Gutstein carves it into little pieces. Read here. The schools report is an […]
How was this a "communications error" ?
From Christopher Foulds, Kamloops this Week (KTW) Stowe told KTW someone in the Blazers’ organization signed up the players, though he did not know if the memberships were accompanied by the $5 […]
Dumbocracy
The BC Liberal Party claims almost 50,000 new members since its leadership race began with a total membership now approaching 90,000. Kevin Falcon’s camp accuses Christy Clark’s camp of bypassing membership sign-ups. […]
When profit ranks before morality
News item: Kevin Falcon, former BC Liberal Minister of deregulation, applauds Prime Minister Harper on plan to reduce business regulations. Falcon says, “. . . regulations are job killers, plain and simple, […]
Dirty business that blackens Canada’s name
Policy Note, the blog of The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, noted last summer that, with attention focused on HST, few observers noticed the latest Carbon Tax increase and its regressive nature. “When […]
It is one thing to get growth going, another to share that
News item: Egyptian security forces have used rubber bullets, tear gas and water canon in running battles with tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators demanding that Hosni Mubarak, the president, step down. […]
Like babies, promises easy to make, hard to deliver
Paul Willcocks asked at his blog Paying Attention why MLAs don’t get more respect. He then proceeds to give a number of good reasons, including this: “MLAs do have a high opinion of their own […]
Maybe we need political prisoners in Canada
Read more at CBC, Senator charged with fraud still spending “A senator charged with fraud and banned from sitting in the upper chamber since 2007 continues to charge taxpayers more than $10,000 […]
‘Good Corporate Citizens’ or what ?
Did Gordon Campbell’s Liberals choose ‘Good Corporate Citizens’ when they gifted development rights in Bute Inlet and other areas of British Columbia’s coastal wilderness? The key investors in Plutonic Power are not moms […]
Aunt Blabby wants to know who is using her name?
From Neal Hall, of the Vancouver Sun’s Nothing to See Here Department: Kieran’s e-mail said he had been fishing that day with Paul Taylor, then deputy minister to finance minister Collins, and […]
From July 2010 – A cheapjack’s parachute is stained
Tales from the True History of a Young Man’s Adventures as a Fortune-Teller, Grafter, Knocker-Worker, and Mounted Pitcher on the Market-Places and Fairgrounds of a Modern and Enterprisingly Romantic British Columbia: April […]
The Plain Truth
Rafe Mair says: The plain truth is that the Campbell government has wallowed in deceit and sharp practice from the outset . . . [The] government and especially the premier, have told […]
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