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Where the money goes – ICBC top 50 – 2010

By Norm Farrell on December 3, 2011 • ( 20 Comments )

 Salary   Expense   Total  1 SCHUBERT, Jon President & CEO   449,201      55,570   504,771 2 KIRKNER, Art V-P, Field Services   315,824    188,681   504,505 3 PRIOR, Geri  Chief Financial […]

What will you tell us next?

By Norm Farrell on December 2, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

More sleaze reports: Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? Federal Judge Pimp-Slaps the SEC Over Citigroup Settlement Congressional perks: Lawmakers’ most surprising benefits Super-PACs and Dark Money: ProPublica’s Guide to […]

Sharing urban roads

By Norm Farrell on December 2, 2011 • ( 3 Comments )

Photo Courtesy of FlightAware.com

Free market, Canadian style

By Norm Farrell on December 2, 2011 • ( 7 Comments )

From J-Source.ca “New Brunswick is about to become the first place in Canada where readers must pay for local news. “The Irving-owned Brunswick News Inc. has decided that the era of free […]

"No ISA in BC" says BC Liberal Don McRae

By Norm Farrell on December 2, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Link to Super Heroes 4 Salmon Here

Gettin ‘r done for the good old boys

By Norm Farrell on December 2, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Hockey violence or government corruption?

By Norm Farrell on December 1, 2011 • ( 9 Comments )

CBC asks: What was B.C.’s top news story of 2011? They ask readers to vote on these choices: Stanley Cup riot Demise of HST Occupy movement Kienan Hebert abduction Sled-dog massacre Fracking […]

Spin Cycles recycled

By Norm Farrell on December 1, 2011 • ( 1 Comment )

First published here in April 2009, this piece contains a couple of classic clips from a program about political comments. One before spin-masters were invented and another that demonstrates spin of heroic […]

Comparative values

By Norm Farrell on November 30, 2011 • ( 2 Comments )

How we spend our money reflects our values, particularly for conscious choices, the ones we make after full consideration. That occurred to me when reader Lew linked to a Jonathan Fowlie blog, […]

Luxurious new offices and enduring gratitude

By Norm Farrell on November 30, 2011 • ( 9 Comments )

Consider recent spending priorities of David Hahn and the BC Ferry Directors. At the least, taxpayers and ferry users ought to be concerned, perhaps outraged. In 2008, the company announced plans to […]

Advocates not reporters

By Norm Farrell on November 30, 2011 • ( 4 Comments )

Canada kept detection of salmon virus secret, Craig Welch, Seattle Times environment reporter, Nov. 30/11 “A decade before this fall’s salmon-virus scare, a Canadian government researcher said she found a similar virus […]

More from Tyson Creek

By Norm Farrell on November 30, 2011 • ( 33 Comments )

I wish to emphasize the first hand report in comments of a person who knows Narrows Inlet well and understands the effect on an area that should remain unspoiled. Wilderness Committee people […]

Snoozing, slothful syndicate of political poodles…

By Norm Farrell on November 29, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

At the Rafe Mair birthday celebration last week, we got to hear Rafe tell an anecdote about writing a piece celebrating free speech. The article was written for the Ryerson School of […]

Liberal MLA’s search for the BC Rail story

By Norm Farrell on November 29, 2011 • ( 1 Comment )

Premier Photo-Op assigned her minions to look for clues in the BC Rail case. Drawing from DFO resource:  SALMONIDS IN THE CLASSROOM: PRIMARY Don’t miss Bill Tieleman at The Tyee, Railgate? Asked […]

Trending toward turmoil

By Norm Farrell on November 29, 2011 • ( 2 Comments )

The Poor, the Near Poor and You, New York Times, Nov. 23/11: “…And times are tough for the middle class. But everyone needs to recognize a chilling reality: One in three Americans […]

More theatre of the absurd

By Norm Farrell on November 29, 2011 • ( 6 Comments )

Langley Mayor Peter Fassbender says negotiations are complete, an agreement for continuing the RCMP role in British Columbia is done. Attorney General Shirley Bond – the person who promised to slash top salaries […]

More Corus charitable work

By Norm Farrell on November 28, 2011 • ( 2 Comments )

Annual financial reports filed by Canadian charities with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), are rudimentary and largely unchecked by tax department officials. This suggests rather little oversight is exercised despite the billions […]

"The hypocrisy is quite sickening"

By Norm Farrell on November 27, 2011 • ( 8 Comments )

Paraphrasing Benjamin Disraeli’s words to the British Parliament in 1845: The BC Liberal government is an organized hypocrisy. I visited the BC Liberal website today and found this homepage. The frame from […]

Net-zero mandate, not for all

By Norm Farrell on November 27, 2011 • ( 5 Comments )

Net-zero is OK for teachers, regular healthcare providers and the remaining public sector workers but not for important friends who do favours for Premier Photo Op. For example, and this is but […]

I see nothing, I was not here…

By Norm Farrell on November 27, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Premier Photo Op was born in the sixties, apparently influenced by one particular TV show. While it ended production in 1971, Hogans Heroes was in reruns long after. With a hat tip […]

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