Governments prefer indirect taxation partly because politicians assume they’ll take less heat if hands of tax collectors slip into our pockets surreptitiously. That’s done in BC by instructing crown corporations to overcharge […]
When Gordon Campbell led BC Liberals into the 2009 election campaign, his platform promised, “We will maintain our competitive advantage from low cost heritage power, for residential and industrial users alike.” When […]
In the USA today, a black youth was jailed for life after a jury trial convicted him of a March 2013 shooting. The time from homicide to related conviction: 5 months and […]
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Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ― Aristotle This week the […]
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An eastern blogger, who I previously mentioned in this estimable piece, is a loquacious commentator for a preeminent corporate welfare bum. On his website Saturday, he was cheering for an escalation of death […]
After The Fraser Institute reported it’s never been easier financially to raise a Canadian child, Business in Vancouver surveyed Twitter response to the think tank’s featherbrained newspeak and found “considerable” controversy, “Yesterday, […]
How CEOs Jack Up their Pay, Kimberly Weisul, Editor & Founder of One Thing New: “Poor, downtrodden, underpaid CEOs finally have someone they can turn to in their hour of need: compensation […]
On CKNW’s August 22 afternoon news, Marcella Bernardo reported this about Verizon, the American cell provider that may offer service in Canada, “Last year’s [Verizon] revenues of 116 billion dollars were more […]
Sunday, September 18, a 95 y.o. man assaulted another senior at the residential care facility of Vernon’s Jubilee Hospital. The victim died and within hours, the elderly culprit was arrested, taken into […]
Much of my youth was spent in the coastal mill town of Powell River. Paying excellent wages, the pulp, paper and lumber company directly employed almost 2,500 workers. It hired the town’s […]
Canadian citizen Maher Arar has lived in this country for more than 25 years. He has an undergraduate degree from McGill and a graduate degree in telecommunications, is married and father of […]
From Michael Shermer, monthly columnist for Scientific American, a respected science magazine founded in 1845. Link to Dr. Shermer’s complete article, Five Myths of Terrorism. It is worth reading, particularly if you wonder […]
Alberta lands may be temporarily disturbed by tar sands activity but a site of extraction undergoes active reclamation and, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, gains new life. At least, that’s […]
RossK at The Gazetteer notes one particular whine of one particular practitioner in the corporate media, Sanctimonious was an interesting choice of word by this guy but it better fits a message he sent […]
As a companion piece to the preceding article, I republish another from December 2012: It’s not our fault, we’re awesome Wally Oppal’s report on missing and murdered women runs 1,638 pages. It […]
For BC Liberals and their best friends, the gravy train is an express. In his blog, lawyer Cameron Ward offers Missing Women Commission of Inquiry: Some well compensated, but not women’s families: When […]
REPLAY, from August 2010, worth reading again to consider if the situation has improved or degraded in the last three years. Providing a platform for Paul Fromm and his hater friends was […]
The sudden death of RCMP Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre was probably in mind when Resergeance.net posted the video embedded here. More than a few people believe that Lemaitre was misused by his superiors […]
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