Liberal leadership candidate Kevin Falcon applauds the federal Red Tape Reduction Committee. No surprise there since it is a program of deception and misdirection, a specialty of Falcon, who claims he reduced […]
He mines the best from lodes of prosaic expressions: “There’s the old saw, “if a husband sends his wife flowers for no reason, there’s a reason.” So be it with the BC […]
Last week, ‘Time to evacuate Arkansas‘ was posted at In-Sights for a touch of humor. This week, David Suzuki and Faisal Moola took a more serious approach, writing Mass animal die-offs and the ongoing […]
News Item: The provincial Crown is seeking the return of up to one million pages of documents disclosed to defence lawyers in the Basi-Virk political corruption case. B.C. Supreme Court Associate Chief […]
Vancouver Island MLA John Horgan launched his NDP leadership campaign today with a promise to change the party’s focus from in-fighting to cooperation focused on challenging the sitting government: It’s time to […]
Canada has a well financed lobby aiming to Americanize healthcare in this country. The objective is not to improve our wellness, it is to open new markets to multinational corporations. I believe […]
ProPublica reports: “Almost all oil production on Alaska’s North Slope remains shut down after workers on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline system discovered a leak over the weekend. BP, the pipeline company’s largest single […]
John Horgan is the first serious candidate in what has been the NDP leadership crawl. Does he have a chance of winning? Let us consider. First, his website offered a bio: John […]
Consider the connections between the headline about rules on disclosure and other stories involving RCMP. Constable Geoff Mantler might prefer the British system that would have authorized him to arrest and charge […]
Good reading this weekend at The Legislature Raids. BC Mary had linked to an article at In-Sights. and reader Skookum1, left a comment at TLR that included this: …Instead of complaining about the cost of […]
The Province of BC paid $6 million to lawyers representing Basi and Virk. Does the public have the right to see an itemized invoice and full disclosure about purposes of the payment? […]
A reader pointed us to a recent BBC News report about a British politician convicted of financial fraud. Please compare this legal action to outrageous conduct witnessed in the Basi Virk trial […]
A reader pointed us to a recent BBC News report about a British politician convicted of financial fraud. Please compare this legal action to outrageous conduct witnessed in the Basi Virk trial […]
A week ago, the Canadian Taxpayer Federation (CTF) was issuing alarmist press releases across Canada, claiming that taxes and medical premiums were rising dramatically in 2011. In this region, they claimed that […]
In March 2010, Finance Minister Colin Hansen issued a three-year service plan and Ministerial Accountability Statement. In it, he makes various assertions. One is a forecast that 2010 Public Accounts will be […]
Dave Lundy, commenting at theleftcoast.ca, leaves his view of early entrants to the NDP leadership race: “So let me get this straight, the first 3 candidates for the leadership of the opposition, […]
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 […]
Liberal leadership candidates, especially Mike de Jong and Christy Clark, do not see evidence or indicators of wrongdoing in the sale of BC Rail and they are untroubled by bribery and corruption […]
Sometimes Ian Mulgrew mails in a shoddy effort: on Basi/Virk, for example. Other times he is thoughtful, incisive and on target: Dsziekanski and the RCMP, for example. Today Mulgrew is on track. I […]
You know about coal miners and canaries. Life for a bird in a coal mine might be short but it could be meaningful. Being sensitive to poisonous gases, canaries warn of dangerous […]
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,…
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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…