Now that Mr. Oppal has delivered his report, let’s ask whether the $9 million spent on Wally and friends was worthwhile. Oppal has been charging $1,500 a day. According to CTV four […]
Poor people are economic stimulators for a few
Cronies, henchmen and the future
It’s 21 weeks before the BC provincial election and the government’s hired guns are working overtime, adding to the pile of IOU’s Liberals expect to settle by further payments of public assets. […]
Guest post from Conservative house leader
Peter Van Loan published this item when he was an opposition member during the time Paul Martin was Prime Minister of Canada’s Liberal government. Van Loan’s subsequent behaviour, and that of the […]
BC Liberals’ startling success
Many commentators claim BC Liberals are incompetent and ineffective. While true in ministries such as Justice and Children and Family Development, Liberals have been successful in the centerpiece of their strategic plan. […]
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–of cabbages–and kings
A paper produced for the Business Council of British Columbia in 2010 stated: “Since 2001, British Columbia’s natural gas sector has experienced nothing short of phenomenal growth…” Mineral production in the province […]
Peace region changes
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A society doomed by greed
Is the future healthy when one company’s CEO draws a larger salary between breakfast and lunch, on one day, than a loyal 20 year employee earns in a year? Well, during the […]
Nothing can go wrong, nrthng cun go rong…
One of Murphy’s Laws: “If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop. Corollary: […]
Ottawa’s habitual condescension
A study conducted by UBC Fisheries Centre, funded by World Wildlife Fund Canada, notes in the summary abstract, “If [the economic value of social, cultural and environmental damages] are accounted for, all of the […]
Memories of Vancouver a while ago
Aaron Chapman’s great Tyee piece, Ten Legends of Vancouver’s Penthouse Nightclub, brought back memories. I visited The Penthouse only a handful of times, in its declining, maybe declined, days. In the seventies, […]
Fracking fraud
In Fissures appear in scientists’ assurances about safety of fracking, Globe and Mail writer Mark Hume describes how industry used the work of Charles Groat, of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas, […]
Those in the way may end up in jail
When the Cohen Commission was holding hearings in Vancouver, I attended. It was not a happy or satisfying experience. The most unsettling single observation was of government scientist — a person known […]
Under threat of perjury…
Legal Saga, Mark Hume, Globe and Mail, December 3, 2012 “A legal battle by the Auditor-General to get billing records in a political-corruption case has taken a surprise turn with an admission […]
A government of universal deceit
Theoretically, politicians are stewards of the nation’s resources and regulators of industries that exploit public assets. Yet those chamberlains receive contributions worth millions of dollars every year from the people they are […]
Only when their lips move
Days ago, I posted the article If BC Liberals lied before, can we believe them now? The main point was that our provincial government feels no obligation to speak honestly to the […]
Business genius talks
Warren Buffett, the world’s third richest man, appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart along with Carol Loomis, senior editor-at-large for Fortune and author of Tap Dancing to Work. A few quotes: […]
Gentrification disrupts residents (of the garage)
Contractors are doing demolition of our our one story garage and family room, preparing to extend the existing second floor, to add sleeping and play space for three grandchildren now living here. […]
Not meaning what was said nor saying what was meant
Box of secrets revealed to Mike de Jong In the opening cluster of advertisements on today’s Global TV noon news, a message from the Liberal Government: “BC is stable and growing. We`re […]
BC`s unethical investments not smoking hot
BC Investment Management Corporation may come to regret its rush to invest in big tobacco firms. After adding shares in eight of nine tobacco stocks in fiscal 2012, bcIMC had $237 million […]
Taxpayers on hook for Liberal "campain" funding
BC Liberals and friends had better start worrying because Vaughn Palmer may be taking off gloves and blindfold. The pundit who has all the tools, and a toolbox, often laid implements down […]
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The Wall Street takeover of Canada shouldn't come as a surprise. Ex Goldman Sachs executive, Mark Carney, is demonstrating once…