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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 20th, 2012
I urge you to read again Rex Weyler’s blog on the Common Sense Canadian on the consequences of a bitumen spill in Vancouver Harbour. And “consequences” should very much on our minds, front and centre. We are talking three pipelines and two tanker routes. For the Northern Gateway project we have two pipelines. The reason [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 13th, 2012
This is neither a complicated nor a long story – but it’s a tragic vindication for a hell of a lot of people who have been telling the story, ignored at best, more often vilified. Look at page 1 of the story in the Vancouver Sun, May 11 under the heading “HYDRO AWASH IN PRIVATE [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 6th, 2012
What is civil disobedience? I ask because I’m going to be urging such a course in the times to come. Although he didn’t invent the idea, Mahatma Gandhi invented the modern term when he protested a tax on salt imposed by the British which hurt the poor Indian especially. He broke the law deliberately and [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 23rd, 2012
The two by-elections are very bad news for the Liberals, not much better for the Tories and excellent news for the NDP. Let’s start with the last first. The loyal opposition is now in the position where a couple of Liberals crossing the floor can bring the government down. I don’t believe that will happen [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 18th, 2012
It’s indeed an overworked accolade but Dr. David Suzuki is a great man. In the Environmental world he is in that pantheon of heroes that include the likes of Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques Cousteau. Dr. Suzuki is a scientist but is better known as the man who brought the environment into [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 16th, 2012
How wonderful it is to have such breaking news fanatics as the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Province. The Sun on Friday the 13th carried a headline story of how Kinder Morgan is planning to increase its pipeline capacity to 850,000 barrels per day at a cost of $5 Billion. The Province with a breathlessness [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 9th, 2012
Craig McInnes of the Vancouver Sun today has an article essentially supporting the Enbridge Pipeline and the tanker traffic down our coast. His position is that with all the science available these things can be done safely. Craig deserves a trip to the woodshed or, as also happened in my young days, to have his [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 8th, 2012
Of course Christy Clark must resign. It’s not going to get better as time passes. I would be the last to say that the entire problem is of her doing – she was handed a poisoned chalice by Gordon Campbell who is the ultimate Teflon man; he pays nothing for going to jail and when [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 4th, 2012
I think the Harper budget is a plus for the environment. It comes in a way from a roundabout look at things. The government will take habitat protection out of the Fisheries Act and will put developments on a “fast track”. Why is this good news? Because we now have it in writing what the [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 28th, 2012
The resignation of John Van Dongen from the Liberal caucus to become an instant one-man Conservative caucus has, for me at any rate, put the focus on John Cummins. Let’s look at Mr Cummins’ record and positions. Mr. Cummins’ claim to fame is his integrity – his record of standing up for BC and his [...]
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