Rafe Mair, heroic analyst of British Columbia’s political economics, hits DFO, a favourite target, between the eyes at The Common Sense Canadian. Salmon Farm Apologist’s “Shoddy Science” Outed Mair reminds us of mainstream media behaviour […]
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.” Edward R. Murrow I may look too fondly at the past […]
David Mitchell and Robert Webb, two of Britain’s brightest social commentators, provide an inside look at modern healthcare:
“Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.” Heinrich Heine Acute medical distress recently focused my appreciation of close friends and loving family. What great fortune […]
I have been investigating public health services up close and personal but expect to be heading home soon after a sojourn at Lions Gate Hospital. Blogging wll resume next week. Indeed, I […]
We suffered a fatal loss recently. Not tragic but inconvenient. The family car died, soon after our local service mechanic found he could afford an air ticket to anywhere because we said, […]
If the Liberal’s promises of HST rate reductions influence your vote, consider past announcments of this government: NEWS RELEASEFor Immediate Release2010PREM0193-001340Oct. 27, 2010Office of the PremierPREMIER ANNOUNCES TAX RELIEF FOR BRITISH COLUMBIANSVICTORIA […]
Reporting on taxation, commerce and consumer issues and serving the interests of business funded think tanks, the Vancouver Sun never lets truth get in the way of its agenda. In a rather […]
A regular reader forwarded the opinion piece about efficiency that is shown below. It seemed relevant after my sad account of an unnamed person delaying and inconveniencing my important technical efforts, in the […]
With the Harper government finally holding a majority in Parliament, it’s worth re-looking at the radical milieu that gave early inspiration to Canada’s Prime Minister. Some years ago, writer Marci McDonald wrote The […]
Amy Goodman, founder, host and executive producer of DemocracyNow!, was co-recipient of the inaugural Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media. The accolade memorializes I.F. Stone (1907-1989), a titan of 20th […]
Jim Hightower, a veteran progressive commentator in the USA, recently published From Democracy to Plutocracy at OtherWords.org. He discusses misuse of the term ‘conservative’ and his words are relevant to British Columbians as well. […]
Alexandra Morton is raising another alarm; this time about secrecy surrounding the Cohen Commission into Fraser River salmon. Mark Hume of the Globe and Mail adds a valuable column as well. This […]
Montreal Gazette editorial: “Be afraid, Canadians. Be very, very afraid. That’s the message Stephen Harper has put up front at the outset of this federal election campaign. What we should fear, according […]
Under a fish farm in BC from Alexandra Morton on Vimeo. From Alexandra Morton: “This is in the Broughton Archipelago, under a Marine Harvest salmon farm. The bubbles are methane. The waste […]
Courageous Warrior or Chickenhawk? When Stephen Harper dropped out after two months as a student at his hometown University of Toronto, he had little interest in military service. Instead, he took a job in […]
Harper Lee wrote about her love of books as a child and her dedication to the written word: “Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, […]
By RICHARD (RJ) ESKOW, Campaign for America’s Future Selling the Middle Class Sell-Outhttp://www.scribd.com/embeds/53450699/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces additional funding for aid in Afghanistan, 26 February 2007, Ottawa, ON: …Afghanistan is a long way from home, but the issues we are addressing here – building […]
During the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s—a scandal whose dimensions, by today’s standards, seem almost quaint—the banker Charles Keating was asked by a congressional committee whether the $1.5 million he had spread […]
Well of course! CBC's very own internal censor, Bari Weiss, was right and proper to cancel release of the video…
In these days where we are bombarded on social media by lengthy blocks of text with no paragraph breaks… (which…
Jonathan Winter reminds me of when Pangloss tells Candide that men must perforce have been made to wear eye glasses,…
[…] Found in the internet. As a recent traveller through YVR, I wo argue with Jonathan Winters. Getting to the…
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My stepsonn posted a meme on his Mastodon account with both PP and MC claiming, à la Spartacus, "I'm Stephen…