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"If we remain silent, we kill freedom, justice and the possibility that a society armed with information may have power to change the situation that has brought us to this point."

In dealing with the Climate Emergency, our biggest enemy is no longer climate denial but climate delay – Ed Miliband

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Mourn all victims

By Norm Farrell on November 14, 2015 • ( 14 Comments )

CTV reported late Friday that “the streets of Paris are streaked with blood” and one of its star reporters spoke about “terror acts empty of human purpose.” If Tom Walter’s opinion is […]

Pacific Northwest LNG

By Norm Farrell on November 12, 2015 • ( 5 Comments )

Letter to PM Trudeau re Lelu Island https://www.scribd.com/embeds/289524162/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true

The sparkles dim

By Norm Farrell on November 5, 2015 • ( 18 Comments )

Before the 2013 election campaign in BC, incumbent Liberals were trailing in the polls and Premier Clark dueled with Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter for the lowest approval rating among Canadian premiers. […]

Investing our money in companies that kill us

By Norm Farrell on November 3, 2015 • ( 3 Comments )

BC Gov't pension managers invest over $125 billion without any stated plan to invest ethically. #bcpoli #climatechange — Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) November 3, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js BC Gov't pension investment managers placed nearly […]

Orderly, efficient and accountable

By Norm Farrell on November 2, 2015 • ( 8 Comments )

Mainstream and alternative media have given a fair degree of coverage to Clark Government efforts to ensure few papers document its activities. Rather too little attention has been paid to the motivation […]

Horgan in the BC Legislature

By Norm Farrell on October 29, 2015 • ( 20 Comments )

Hansard, October 28, 2015: Yesterday I asked the Premier if she would apologize to Tim Duncan, the courageous whistle-blower who came forward when he was bullied by an official in the Minister […]

Judge by actions, not by words

By Norm Farrell on October 28, 2015 • ( 11 Comments )

2011 Year End Report, Premier Christy Clark We are working to make British Columbia the most open provincial government in Canada and I am committed to being the most connected premier in […]

In BC, photo ops trump action

By Norm Farrell on October 27, 2015 • ( 6 Comments )

Truth does not serve needs of crony capitalists

By Norm Farrell on October 27, 2015 • ( 4 Comments )

SNC-Lavalin Inc. is the kind of ethics-light corporation that BC Liberals likes to have as a partner. With considerable public flourish, after departure of Chairman Gwyn Morgan, the company announced an amnesty […]

Wheels of justice turn slowly

By Norm Farrell on October 26, 2015 • ( 9 Comments )

The legal processes may be slow but that provides years of opportunity for people devoid of morality and ethics to speculate in stockholdings of the merchants of death. In the 1990s, the […]

Dear Globe and Mail

By Norm Farrell on October 18, 2015 • ( 5 Comments )

disposito, Prof. Holger Syme, October 16, 2015 You have the best arts coverage of all our Canadian newspapers. You have some excellent reporters. During this election campaign, you published a number of […]

Wanna Raise a Kid, Cheap?

By Norm Farrell on October 16, 2015 • ( 14 Comments )

Lawyer, writer and wit Stephen Lautens has an eye for worthy stories and a deft way with words. This example can be found at his blog, Stephen Lauten’s Parking Space: According to the […]

Hitching to a busted wagon

By Norm Farrell on October 8, 2015 • ( 11 Comments )

LNG bust could last for years, Nasdaq.com, Oct 8, 2015 Commodity prices have crashed over the past year, and the market for LNG is no different. Over the past five years or […]

A challenge to Wally Oppal and friends – UPDATE

By Norm Farrell on October 8, 2015 • ( 7 Comments )

More than two year later, almost nothing has changed for people most in need. CBC News The following was first published August 8, 2013: In 2009, Delta South voters decided that one […]

Custom election lawn sign

By Norm Farrell on October 7, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

  Print your own using a high resolution image file, available free of charge. Email: normanfarrell.ca@gmail.com  

Shockingly high BC Hydro rate increases inevitable

By Norm Farrell on October 6, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

The audio file below is a recording of my time on CFAX1070 with Ian Jessop October 06. We talk mostly about BC Hydro and the inevitable high-level rate increases. .

"Radical" environmentalists proven correct

By Norm Farrell on October 6, 2015 • ( 6 Comments )

In 2009, the Wilderness Committee issued a press release. Gwen Barlee and Joe Foy were prescient: “Requiring BC Hydro to purchase power that it doesn’t need is an idiotic decision and a […]

As we’ve been saying…

By Norm Farrell on October 6, 2015 • ( 5 Comments )

Premier should admit LNG dream is dead, David Bond, Kelowna Daily Courier, October 5, 2016: The evidence is now overwhelming. B.C.’s current energy policies, centred on the LNG export strategy and BC […]

State and future of BC Hydro

By Norm Farrell on October 2, 2015 • ( 14 Comments )

Opposition parties in BC ought to create a set of hearings to conduct a thorough PUBLIC examination of independent power contracts, alternative less-destructive energy sources and the state and future of BC […]

Wilderness destruction, only to enrich a few

By Norm Farrell on October 2, 2015 • ( 4 Comments )

Narrows Inlet by Duane Burnett: An almost pristine silent majestic oasis where the west coast rain forest mountains plunged straight into the fjord carved out by the last ice age, rich with […]

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