A story about her bush pilot father written by a dear friend of many years. It was read on CBC North by Northwest on Saturday, 13 February 2021.
Now for something completely different
Of course, these photographs represent something more to me than a 13 year-old’s regard for the beauty of our world. It represents the hope that the next generation will protect it…
Dream of tomorrow
The best four minutes you can spend today.
Returning to action
My consumer testing of BC’s healthcare system is now complete so activity at In-Sights will resume this week. As Arlo Guthrie said 52 years ago, “You walk in, you get injected, inspected, […]
Remembering
An old guy remembers the old days in British Columbia…
Personal story
This is not news. Instead, it’s a personal story, one of the few posted here in the last decade. I hope you enjoy at least a slight smile.
Words from my notes
A collection of words that caught my attention. Some are serious; some are bemusing; all are worthy of consideration.
Taxpayer dollars at work
This is a video of an interview conducted in England with a consultant who worked for British Columbia when the Campbell government was awarding information technology contracts. His work was much admired by BC Liberals because it fit their style of conducting public business.
BC election survival tools
Campaign survival tool: a PVR so you can skip the endless Liberal commercials we taxpayers are paying to air. Or, one of these magic instruments:
Things we know, or should know
All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten. …simple instructions for a good life, all worth remembering.
Deep-seated seething fury is 2016 frontrunner
Now that Ted Cruz has dropped from the race, it is time to consider the Presidential candidate suggested in 2012 by one important American media outlet. The Onion After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot […]
Words to ponder
“America in the 1950s made the rich pay their fair share; it gave workers the power to bargain for decent wages and benefits; yet contrary to right-wing propaganda then and now, it […]
Love this
and this:
Flaws of classic cars
In moments of honesty, we older folks will admit the cars of our youth are better in memory than they were in reality. I knew a man who lovingly restored an early […]
Adele – for those who don’t know already
From December 2011, when I first noticed the British star: I may be late but 2011 was the year I discovered brilliant young English singer-songwriter Adele Laurie Blue Adkins. Salon.com calls her […]
British satire continues
I enjoy Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, a BBC Two satirical program now in a third series. BBC TV is not readily available in North America without use of a proxy server but […]
Readers speak
I had planned today to relate a story from a few years back, about what might have been rockets passing just beneath the helicopter I rode on a harrowing flight into Victoria’s […]
David Mitchell on investor immigrants
Through the magic of search engines, this item, first published August 2012, draws regular attention from readers. Mitchell is talking about Britain but similar rules for moneyed immigrants apply in many nations, […]
Smile
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"Cardboard box? You’re lucky…"
Vancouver firm promises to build home in Third World for every local condo sold, The Province, Feb 2014 “Two Vancouver businessmen have started a real-estate gifting program with the lofty aspiration of […]
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