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Posted in General on Jun 3rd, 2017
Those who think that the feds and Alberta have got the only quiver with arrows in the Kinder Morgan fight are very sadly mistaken indeed. The overriding factor is the deep resolve of an angered British Columbia to keep out what are seen as almost foreign despoilers of their land. Damned near everyone is a […]
Posted in General on May 6th, 2017
I had intended, with my latest article in the Common Sense Canadian, to end commentary on the May 9 election but Premier Clark, Hall of Fame fibber and hypocrite, has outdone herself with her proposed $70-a-tonne carbon levy on exports of thermal coal from British Columbian ports, a move that will devastate producers in both […]
Posted in General on Mar 18th, 2017
“Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise.” I concede that Martin Luther’s words in 1521 at the Diet of Worms were far more important than my borrowing them here but when I decided to write this, they were on my mind. I hope you and Luther will forgive my trespass. I take the unusual step […]
Posted in General on Feb 24th, 2017
By Economist Erik Andersen It is unfortunate that the government exploits the public’s ignorance of finances. We know that BC Hydro abuses the privilege of using regulatory accounting. Carrying $6 billion of uncollected expenses as a asset is an insult and the former Auditor General more or less told them so. Prior to 2003 the […]
Posted in General on Nov 25th, 2016
Mr. Prime Minister, as you contemplate approving pipelines in our province, I respectfully suggest you ask yourself a couple of questions. How come Donald Trump, a Republican, could say the most outrageous things about Hillary Clinton a Democrat, supported by a very popular presidential couple, yet voters elect him anyway? The polls had Clinton from […]
Posted in General on Nov 22nd, 2016
No one should be in the slightest surprised at the anti-British Columbia stance of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals. As Talleyrand famously noted when, after the fall of Napoleon the Bourbons were restored, “they learned nothing and forgot nothing”. Thus it is with the Liberals who, once safely back in power, turn their attention to […]
Posted in General on Sep 23rd, 2016
Story by Jayson Stark at ESPN: The Man. The Voice. The Stories. One man, no added interviews in the middle of the game, no mindless giggling with a colleague no one had ever heard of before either, no insane irrelevancies pulled off the internet to help him fill the time, just Vin Scully. There were […]
Posted in General on Sep 13th, 2016
It’s time again for the Fall Classic, folks. No, the World Series will have to wait a couple of months, I refer to my annual pre-World Series baseball column. I bring to this effort a lifetime of experience going back to the school playground at Maple Grove Elementary where my baseball career started. I was […]
Posted in General on Aug 16th, 2016
Ichiro 4278, Pete Rose 4256, Ty Cobb 4191 Those are the all-time numbers of base hits for three of the very greatest baseball players to ever live. Last night Ichiro – like Tiger, the Babe, and The Rocket, that’s all the identification he needs – tripled off the right field fence for his 3000th US […]
Posted in General on Jul 27th, 2016
More blood has been shed on the shores of the Danish Faroe Islands in the second grindadráp (grind) of the year, in the same village where 43 pilot whales were slaughtered just three weeks ago. At approximately 4pm yesterday, a pod of up to 200 pilot whales was spotted by locals on the island of […]
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