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Posted in General on Oct 15th, 2009
I’m often asked where I’m plying my trade these days so here’s the answer … in no special order …
CBC AM 690 Monday mornings at 7:40 AM (political panel with Moe Sihota and Erin Chutter).
CFUN 1410AM Monday mornings at 8:00 AM where I comment upon environmental matters with host Simi Sara.
“The Search” on Joytv 10 [...]
Posted in General on Aug 31st, 2009
The Hon. Gail Shea,
Minister, Fisheries and Oceans,
Parliament Buildings,
Ottawa, Canada.
Dear Ms. Shea,
Re: DFO’s poor record for wild salmon protection as opposed to un-restrained support for salmon farming in B.C.
This is the perspective of two of us who have a combined experience of over 85 years in biology and oceanography – most of this time with DFO. [...]
Posted in General on Aug 21st, 2009
On Thursday August 20 I attended a rally against fish farms held at Pender and Burrard in Vancouver. I gave a short speech – and it was lousy, Stooping to use the “f” word, I called the government liars. I was trying to get the message out that one of the principal things we must [...]
Posted in General on Jul 18th, 2009
Back in 1956, as a law student in his final year, I had my first piece published and it was in the law school journal then called Legal Notes, now the UBC Law Review. My subject was illegally obtained evidence – should it or should it not be admissible? This is topical 53 years later [...]
Posted in General on Jul 10th, 2009
Gadfrey Daniel! Someone wants the Calgary Stampede to stop tormenting animals. Surely we’re not going to stop a few people having a bit of fun by binding up a bull’s balls then jumping on him and hauling him to the ground, tying him up then taking a bow? I suppose it must also be the [...]
Posted in General on Jul 3rd, 2009
It’s interesting to speculate on what government is going to look like for the next couple of years.
When the House sits we will, right off the get-go, see a budget that bears little relationship to the one brought down a short time ago to carry the Liberals to its electoral victory. It [...]
Posted in General on Jun 28th, 2009
I see that the Monarchist League of Canada its Union Jack bloomers in a twist because the Queen won’t be opening the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Did it ever occur to the Monarchist League that if Canadians gave a fiddler’s fu… er,fart about the monarchy there would be no need for them?
When I grew [...]
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2009
It’s my fault, really. I should have taken young Kevin Falcon aside and given him the benefit of my wisdom, earned the hard way.
Back in 1976 I was a newly minted member of Bill Bennett’s first cabinet as Minister of Consumer Services. Early on, after a very long cabinet meeting, I did a long, rambling [...]
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2009
Re: the “lost” emails in the Virk Basi case.
This travesty is being played up as either a matter of following normal procedure or an error or both.
It’s clear that the government was under no obligation to delete this information.
Here is the sticking point for the government.
The Attorney General is the law officer of the Crown [...]
Posted in General on Jun 25th, 2009
I suspect that the fix is in with Alex Morton’s recent victory which I reported to you. In essence what happened is that the Province decided not to appeal the part of the decision saying that the federal government, not the provincial government, had exclusive jurisdiction over fish farms. They clearly did this because they [...]
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