“Environmentalists and ordinary Canadians being branded as extremists is an insult to those of us who fought for our country against real extremists… The Canada I fought for is an open and […]
BC’s critical leadership vacuum
When Gordon Campbell was Premier, advantaging insiders and friends became the BC Government’s raison d’etre. Liberals were damn good at it too. When that sated Premier moved on, he left behind a […]
Quotes that resonate
“I’m not a crook.” – Richard Nixon “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” – Bill Clinton “The only charge that anyone can level against us is one of insufficient […]
Idiotic neanderthals flourish
Lunch with Anders: Speaks from conviction and going nowhere, Laura Stone, iPolitics, October 1, 2012 “I actually think one of the great stories that was missed by journalists was that Mr. Mulcair, […]
Regulating for benefit of regulators
CRTC exec who spent evening in Bell box operated in ‘gray area’: Ethics expert, DANNY JONCAS, QMI AGENCY, Toronto Sun, Sept. 28, 2012: “MONTREAL – Nine months after his appointment as vice-chairman […]
Match point for the good folks
So BC Liberals put an end to Liquor Distribution Branch privatization. Rich Coleman’s efforts withered under the scrutiny of one independent journalist and soon to be retired Liberal MLAs decided not to […]
Abuse went beyond one person in one place
Laura Robinson’s incrimination of establishment man John Furlong led to quick and predictable responses in local media. Vancouver Sun scribbler Daphne Bramham painted a sympathetic picture of the man she called BC’s […]
Journalists slow to criticize colleague
Reader contributions at mainstream media sites are occasionally unreadable, occasionally delightful. Here’s one of the latter type from the Globe & Mail after Margaret Wente defended herself on charges of plagiarism raised […]
Another reason politicians so detested
Recipients of Kenney missive wondering how government knows their sexual orientationBY GLEN MCGREGOR, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 “OTTAWA — An email extolling the Conservative government’s record on gay rights has […]
Politispeak with simultaneous translation
The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee was writing about Nick Clegg and Britain’s Liberal Democrats but she could have been referring to the Campbell/Clark BC Liberals: “a string of the same weary non-truths, exaggerations […]
Renewal without reform?
A skilled and practised word hunter, Ian Reid can flush out sources from behind stone walls. Thursday, he scooped the Legislature’s press gang and published Mea culpa, mea culpa, the release that Christy […]
The rumour mill
Here’s a quick one that came my way today from a decent source. Within the next four months, Christy Clark will decide to focus on the important duties of a single parent […]
September summer
The Spider’s Web The spider, dropping down from twig, Unfolds a plan of her devising, A thin premeditated rig To use in rising. And all that journey down through space, In cool […]
Words to ponder
“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.” – […]
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 […]
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