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Posted in The Tyee on Aug 23rd, 2010
Five ‘vectors’ spell doom for once-solid Crown corporation. Blame Campbell’s energy policies. Erik Andersen is a former Transport Canada economist with a long and interesting pedigree of examining the affairs of business and government. He has done a report for The Common Sense Canadian — I am a co-founder and regular contributor — on the [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Aug 16th, 2010
They never say why they need so much info. I just don’t trust them. Gadfrey Daniel! I’m on the same side as Stephen Harper, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and Gadfrey Daniel! once more, the Fraser Institute! I say NO to the census “long form.” I must say, without intending to hedge, that my opposition takes [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Aug 2nd, 2010
They’re sick. Which means longer jail sentences won’t protect kids. I’ve written on this subject before, but it is so important to our society that, with your leave, I’ll tackle it again. The subject is sexual predators and what to do with them. There has been much publicity recently about sex predators being released from [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Jul 19th, 2010
Polls show BC’s Liberals are wounded. Carole James had better not assume they are dead. The latest polls put Gordon (Pinocchio) Campbell in deep doo-doo at 23 points behind the NDP. First, let’s talk about what this means for the NDP. As Carole James looks at the numbers she will note that while the Liberals [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Jul 5th, 2010
I have here, ladies and gentlemen, a jar of dots. Now you see me pouring them on the table. Here they are: Campbell fibbing about the HST. Stock market scams. Bailouts of “investment” companies. The BP oil spill. Riots in Greece. The demonstrations at the G8 and G20 meetings in Toronto. Now let’s see if [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 21st, 2010
Why are we risking all to promote addiction to tar sands oil? Last Wednesday I put the finishing touch on this column, then zounds! as I was quickly making my way through Thursday’s Vancouver Province, there was an article by local oceanographer Peter Baker on the risks of rising oil tanker traffic, with bigger ships, [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 7th, 2010
‘The Death of American Virtue’ is a cautionary tale of justice and libidos out of control. If you are like me, you found the whole business of president Clinton, Whitewater, Ken Starr, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky and a large supporting cast tiresome as it wandered on, but I can assure you that this book is anything [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 7th, 2010
I was a paper boy for The Province, and to this day, can’t wait to read certain pages. It’s been suggested by an emailer that I hate Canwest! Egad, a base canard as I shall demonstrate! When I was a lad, I belonged to the Tillicum Club organized by The Province. You got a neat [...]
Posted in The Tyee on May 24th, 2010
Farmed salmon fighting rally, historic in size, rendered puny by BC’s big Canwest papers. We all know what a word or punctuation mark can do to a sentence. For example, to write “John, says Mary, is a lousy bed companion” is very different than “John says Mary is a lousy bed companion.” (In fact, perhaps [...]
Posted in The Tyee on May 10th, 2010
Voters are mad as hell, but that’s a long way from building a serious ‘third party.’ There is a lot of chatter about a significant new party coming to B.C. politics. Given the appalling state of governance and opposition, such a discussion is not surprising. Gordon Campbell and his so-called Liberals are in high odor [...]
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