If you enjoy science, and particularly the history of science, visit From Curiosity to Knowledge for details. Frontispiece to Sprat ‘s History of the Royal Society (1667). Engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, design […]
Happy 350th anniversary
What’s another billion
FIN alternatives, Jan 4/2010 An icy battle between a pair of hedge funds is casting a shadow over one of the central venues of this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Davidson Kempner […]
Forever hungry
Sean Holman’s Public Eye Online is a must-read for every British Columbian politico. This recent analysis of his is unconditional: British Columbians may have re-elected the Campbell administration. But they’ve never been […]
Promises that cost nothing
A long-ago Premier of British Columbia, happily aware that public attention and news coverage of his government shifted rapidly, would smirk and say, “Old newspapers are good for fish wrap.” Not so […]
Tolerating death and violence
Police reserve the right to take over activist groups for 2010 . . . the head of the 2010 Olympic police force has refused to promise that his undercover officers won’t take […]
What we don’t know
Gas Drilling is one of ProPublica‘s Hot Topics. Be sure to follow their links to associated stories. In northeast British Columbia, environmental risks from gas production compound, while government eliminates oversight. The […]
A right to complain
Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President, was a racist who supported slavery and tolerated aboriginal genocide. But, he knew how and for whom government operated: Every man is equally entitled to protection by […]
Billionaire skates for Olympics
Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee has been pardoned, again. This time for his 2008 tax evasion and embezzlement convictions. The Korean businessman had been fined $109 million and given a three years […]
Some businesses still optimistic
CBC headlines, “Slopes are empty, Whistler Mayor tells skiers.” Mayor Melamed says an Olympic chill has descended, emptying the slopes. Apparently not all those in the hospitality industry have noticed a paucity […]
Vancouver 2010 Official Scalper
Someone stands to make millions, and allegedly, more than any other company in the events industry for the event. And he’s done it all with tactics that might be construed by some […]
Freedom of the press, for those who own one
Malignant media disables our flow of news and information. Accordingly, most of us are skeptical of content. It is noise to which we give little consideration.
The meaning of words
Terry Dion Ironbow, 29, was struck by a car driven by an RCMP officer, on the Trans-Canada Highway in Valleyview, at around 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 11. The officer had just finished […]
Here, there and everywhere
The Times, Dec 11/09, Terror police to monitor nurseries for Islamic radicalization Nursery-age children should be monitored for signs of brainwashing by Islamist extremists, according to a leaked police memo obtained by […]
Real and unreal
Sometimes, it is easy to separate truth from codswallop. Further Evidence of Richard Colvin to the Special Committee on Afghanistan Stephen Harper’s Government might be astonished to hear allegations of Canadian complicity […]
Bendy stretchy gang goes gold
Lululemon Athletica was publicly scolded by VANOC for unveiling a cheeky product line in honour of a “Cool Sporting Event That Takes Place in British Columbia Between 2009 & 2011.” For the […]
Her salary is $233,247 ? ? ?
“Maybe the salmon will return a year later,” [federal fisheries minister Gail] Shea said in an interview on CBC radio’s All Points West during her visit to Prince Rupert yesterday. “Nobody knows […]
Roots of policing by consent
Much of what I’ve written on this blog is critical of the administration of justice, particularly in policing and specifically within the RCMP. Critics suggest that I am naively unfair and misunderstand […]
Sliding toward totalitarianism
The Independent, Dec 3/09 Jerome Taylor: I was questioned over my harmless snapshot I was on the South Bank of the Thames trying to compose a shot of the Houses of Parliament […]
Enright talks to Kennedy, again
The Sunday Edition for December 13th, 2009: Introduction: Paul Kennedy is both the RCMP’s strongest critic and its staunchest supporter. With his findings on the horrific death of Robert Dziekański and its […]
CBC’s Michael Enright talked to Paul Kennedy
Michael Enright introduction: There are two public images of the RCMP. There’s the historical almost mythical image of the Horsemen in Red Serge taming the west, bringing law and order to a […]
in-sights.ca 
Well of course! CBC's very own internal censor, Bari Weiss, was right and proper to cancel release of the video…