Tag: Mount Polley

Inexcusable delay in BC courts

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More than ten years have passed since Canada’s worst environmental disaster. In August 2014, a mining company’s tailings dam failed, spilling toxic sludge into Polley Lake, Hazeltine Creek and Quesnel Lake, Experts commissioned by the BC government said the 40-metre dam was poorly designed. Unstable ground underneath the dam caused it to shift and shear, a result BC Hydro hopes will not occur at its precarious Site C.,,

Punishment does not fit the crime

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When Justice Kenneth Affleck jailed a senior who was honestly motivated to improve the world, the judge was following a long-established Canadian legal tradition. It dictates: Punishment need not fit the crime when the perpetrator is a white-collar criminal or a senior officer of a wealthy corporation.

BC Liberals and pay-to-play

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Is the BC Liberal Party involved in racketeering, extorting cash from corporations in return for protection from legal and financial sanctions? That the question can reasonably be asked demonstrates the urgency of prohibiting major payments to political parties by groups doing business with government or subject to regulation by public authorities.

Double standard? Of course!

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In British Columbia, where income and disability assistance rates went unchanged from 2007 to 2016, the Campbell and Clark Governments have bent over backward to provide corporate welfare to people who write large cheques to the BC Liberal Party.