The Trudeau government will alter Canada’s harsh tone on international affairs to emphasize conflict resolution and peacekeeping. The Prime Minister said when deploying our men and women in uniform, the case must […]
The Trudeau government will alter Canada’s harsh tone on international affairs to emphasize conflict resolution and peacekeeping. The Prime Minister said when deploying our men and women in uniform, the case must […]
I’m headed to Alert Bay for Thursday’s showing of Barb Cranmer’s “Our Voices, Our Stories.” Ms. Cranmer, a partner in the Culture Shock gallery, just returned from the San Francisco Indian Film […]
Psychologist Dr. Mike Webster writes often about relationships between senior management and the men and women delivering police services in our communities. He knows about moral disengagement, which allows virtuous people to commit inhumane acts and Webster’s words can help us gain understanding…
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 […]
Letter to PM Trudeau re Lelu Island https://www.scribd.com/embeds/289524162/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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. .
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 […]
If Mr Burns was born in America would he stay? US records new depopulation figures? https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americans-leaving-the-us-migration-a5795bfa In its 250th year,…