“In any society where wealth and income concentrate overwhelmingly at the top, the affluent will almost always come to sneer at public services and the men and women who provide them.” – […]
Words to ponder
Investigating BC’s new police investigator
With the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) now at work on the RCMP shooting of Greg Matters, it is worth reconsidering an In-Sights article written in 2011. Following appointment of Richard Rosenthal as […]
Signs
The next photo surprised me for its location. It wouldn’t be out of place in an elementary school washroom but this was photographed at a washroom in the Buchanan Building at the […]
Tax avoidance, crippled services, monster deficits
“The Republicans have got the facts backward. A rising tide definitely raises all boats. They somehow believe that rising boats raise all tides.” William O. Beeman, commenting on Bill, Barack and Us […]
Not so free speech
Piper Super Cub threatens Otawa Labour Day weekend, RCMP arrested the pilot of a Piper Supercub flying near the Gatineau Quebec Hot Air Balloon Festival. Not because Gian Piero Ciambella was in […]
Serving the real masters
“Royal Dutch Shell PLC has begun construction on a $1.35-billion project to capture and bury greenhouse gas emissions, the first of its kind to sequester carbon from Canada’s oil sands. The project […]
The fun theory
One reason why the rich stay that way
Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me That Mitt Romney ‘Didn’t Pay Any Taxes For 10 Years’, Huffington Post, July 31, 2012 WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he […]
Liars believe their own lies
Corporation That Paid Nothing In Taxes For Four Years Tells Congress It Pays Too Much In Taxes, Think Progress, July 20, 2012 “Over a four years period from 2008 to 2011, Corning […]
Someone else’s stuff is shit and your shit is stuff
Regular readers will know that I’m involved in a home renovation project, one that is just beginning. Presently, the 20 foot shipping container in the driveway is being filled with our stuff. […]
A bubble of deference and flattery
Pathos of the Plutocrat, Paul Krugman, New York Times, July 19, 2012 “…Mr. Obama always bends over backward to declare his support for free enterprise and his belief that getting rich is […]
The way a 3-year old cleans spilled milk
The Cost of an Oil Spill in Burrard Inlet: $40 Billion…For Starters, Rex Weyler, The Common Sense Canadian, May 2012 “But let’s keep in mind: “There is no such thing as “cleaning […]
Unwelcome hero of working people
In the preceding article It is an old and cruel tactic, a reader’s comment referenced long dead miner Albert ‘Ginger’ Goodwin. Today, few young adults know this icon of trade unionism but […]
It is an old and cruel tactic
The Battle of Blair Mountain, Chris Hedges, Truthdig: …Reduce wages and benefits to subsistence level. Break unions. Gut social assistance programs. Buy and sell elected officials and judges. Fill the airwaves with […]
Lying about telling lies is Liberal truth
Margaret MacDiarmid was pushed onto the BCLDB platform by Christy Clark and Rich Coleman and the puppet masters behind them. Standing alone in the spotlight, the ironically named minister of open government […]
Important summary of Cohen Inquiry evidence
Watershed Watch presents a “Cliff’s Notes” version of key evidence and testimony from the ongoing Cohen Sockeye Inquiry. “Concerned that key evidence was hard to access and could become buried and forgotten, […]
Rewards for success or failure
Paying Workers More to Fix Their Own Mess, David Leonhardt, New York Times, March 2009 ” ‘We cannot attract and retain the best and the brightest talent to lead and staff the […]
Trust in God, but not in Enbridge
Not long ago, an animated parody by editorial cartoonist Dan Murphy offended oil transporter Enbridge. The company tried to make Murphy’s troublesome work disappear by pumping up pressure in the Postmedia boardroom. […]
Hero – redefined
Bravery and drone pilots, Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, July 10, 2012 “The Pentagon is considering awarding a Distinguished Warfare Medal to drone pilots who work on military bases often far removed from the […]
Being fracked
Clark’s fracking registry: a fractionary issue, Vanessa Annand, The Martlet, Sep 22, 2011, Volume 64 Issue 7 “…Fracking, a process that allows companies to pump out hard-to-reach deposits of oil and gas […]
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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…