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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 […]
Posted in The Tyee on Apr 26th, 2010
BC’s river giveaway to private producers was never about self-sufficiency, we now see. The polls showing Premier Campbell in deep doo-doo came out before the Site “C” decision. God only knows what the results would have been if they had been taken afterwards. Site “C” demonstrates beyond doubt that Campbell hasn’t been telling the truth […]
Posted in The Tyee on Apr 12th, 2010
Vander Zalm and colleagues should be proud of taking the fight against the HST into the public sphere. I say three cheers for Bill Vander Zalm and his fight against the HST! He and his colleagues have a Herculean task before them in trying to get the HST removed, but they have my support. It’s […]
Posted in The Tyee on Mar 29th, 2010
If NDP can’t win voters in middle, maybe someone else should try. One of the real downers in this business is having to criticize, if not dump on, people you like. And politicians, like most people, are pretty nice people who are trying to do a good job. However, I don’t think Carole James can […]
Posted in The Tyee on Mar 16th, 2010
Notes from a quick, guided visit to Saigon, er, Ho Chi Minh City. My mandate, I think, is to a write a political column for these pages, which I’m about to do, so don’t confuse this with a travelogue. Wendy and I have just returned from the trip of a lifetime, a 37-day cruise which […]
Posted in The Tyee on Mar 10th, 2010
Susan Inman’s memoir is a must read for any family faced with schizophrenia, and for our health system, too. After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity Susan Inman Bridgeross Communications/Ingram Books (2010) I suffer from depression and have been treated for it for more than 20 years. My problem is anxiety — […]
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 […]
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