Canada’s Best Known Political Commentator
Posted in The Tyee on Mar 3rd, 2010
Each new wave of digital device takes an extreme disliking to me.
It seems to be axiomatic that the older people get, the harder it is for them to make changes. The old ways were better. This newfangled stuff will ruin civilization, or at least the part which isn’t already ruined. I try to avoid this [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Feb 1st, 2010
My critics are wrong to say I ’support’ nuclear power. Plus: Steve Fonyo’s fall.
Today a potpourri.
First, to correct a misimpression making the email circuit, I have never pronounced support for nuclear power. Here’s what I said in The Tyee:
“I do not, repeat not, say we should adopt a nuclear power program in B.C., only that [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Dec 28th, 2009
Given what’s now known about concussions, there’s no excuse for approving extreme fighting.
There are some things I will just never understand. For a few hundred thousand dollars, OK maybe a million or two, we’ll leave the ill, especially the mentally ill without adequate health service but we can afford the billions on the Olympics. It [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Dec 21st, 2009
Well, at least inviting a hard look at nuclear energy as an option.
Batten down the hatches! Hide the good booze! Prepare for the worst! Rafe is going to talk about nuclear, hereinafter called N to preserve the sensibilities of readers!
First a bit of background as to why I would discuss this matter now having done [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Dec 14th, 2009
I was your biggest fan. Now I say to your wife Elin, ‘Sue the bastard!’
He was one of the best ballplayers of all time. He played in the 1919 World Series for the Chicago White Sox and had 12 hits and a .375 batting average — in both cases leading both teams. The 12 hits [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Dec 7th, 2009
Carole James is no autocrat — and her party, for better or worse, lacks discipline.
Much note has been taken in the press of the conflicting speeches of Jim Sinclair and Carole James at the recent NDP conference, with Sinclair representing the BC Federation of Labour and James speaking for herself and those who support her. [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Nov 30th, 2009
And here it is: campaign hard, with Carole James, on saving our natural environment.
We may be seeing what no person in his right mind would have dared speak of just a handful of years ago. I speak of the chance that the NDP may overtake the Liberals as the government in waiting. It could happen. [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Nov 23rd, 2009
I was raised conservative, but look where I’ve ended up!
Denouement: the outcome of a complex sequence of events.
As one whose lifetime has been involved in a complex sequence of events, my outcome has left me a bit bewildered at what I’ve become — a severe opponent of “big C” conservatism because I see it as [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Nov 16th, 2009
Hobbling BC Hydro so private firms can profit big is bad public policy.
Two Simon Fraser University professors, both experts in power issues, have written scathing critiques of the Campbell government’s energy policy.
First, they affirm the argument I’ve been making for over a year — that BC Hydro is being forced to buy private power at [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Nov 9th, 2009
Far be it from me to ruin the happy tune, but here are three key questions.
I can hear it now… Tom Jones is telling us about stepping off the train… the old house is still standing… there’s his Momma and his Poppa… and of course sweet Mary with hair of gold and lips like cherry… [...]
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