Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 31st, 2016
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Allow me to introduce myself. I am a lifelong, pretty old British Columbian who loves his province with the same passion I’m sure people in Trois Rivières love theirs. Your inferential calling BC’s patriotism into question because we will vigorously oppose your approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline demonstrates clearly that […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 20th, 2016
This week I said I would talk about Site C but little did I know what I had taken on. I spent nearly a day and a half with stuff that wouldn’t likely be in the article but knew I needed to read. After devouring an enormous pile of material which I’d rather not have, […]
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Posted in Audio on Dec 19th, 2016
Rafe’s appearance on December 19, 2016, as a guest on The Goddard Report. Topics include the Kinder Morgan pipeline, federal health care funding, and housing. Click here to listen.
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 14th, 2016
Beyond doubt, British Columbia must get involved in two separate and substantial actions of civil disobedience, one with Site C and the other with the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline. Civil disobedience runs against the grain of many people but I beg you to hear me out because we have reached the point where there is […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 7th, 2016
I listened to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley on CBC with Rick Cluff this week and must say she said nothing to give me cause to change my mind on Kinder Morgan. To the contrary, I asked myself how could she be so indifferent to the problems 400-plus tankers a year full of bitumen would bring to the BC […]
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Posted in Audio on Dec 5th, 2016
Rafe returned to radio on December 5, 2016, as a guest on The Goddard Report. Topics discussed were the Kinder Morgan pipeline, and the Liberals’ unwillingness to move on electoral reform. Click here to listen.
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 4th, 2016
I simply couldn’t believe Gary Mason in Friday’s Globe and Mail In his article entitled “Sorry Vancouver: The rest of Canada needs pipelines”. I urge you to read the article so that if I misrepresent Mr. Mason you will see it for yourself. Mason gives Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson hell and by extension all of […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 1st, 2016
“They hang the man, and flog the woman, That steals the goose from off the common; But let the greater villain loose, That steals the common from the goose.” I’ll not waste too many words on Prime Minister Trudeau’s treachery. Of all the many political sins, surely the greatest of all is hypocrisy and this […]
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