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Posted in The Tyee on Oct 25th, 2009
Today’s column is from the “we had to destroy the village in order to save it” school of thought. This from a CBC report: “An estimated 90 agencies that have contracts with the Vancouver Coastal Health Region are being told to reduce costs, but provincial Health Minister Kevin Falcon says the reductions will not mean […]
Posted in The Tyee on Oct 19th, 2009
My apologies to the early 2010 critic, now stalked by cops. He tried to tell me the Olympics were a bad bet. Dr. Chris Shaw is a professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of British Columbia. In his field of neurological disease research, he is the author of more than 200 published […]
Posted in The Tyee on Oct 11th, 2009
When I was at sea recently – NO, not that sort of at sea, I mean on the ocean – I read a weighty but masterful book called The Life And Death Of Democracy, by Australian historian John Keane who also, incidentally authored a fine biography of Thomas Paine a few years ago. Amongst many […]
Posted in The Tyee on Sep 20th, 2009
Before I get to today’s subject, two respondents to last week’s column asked why the use of SLICE in fish farms protected the Pink salmon yet not the Sockeye. The answer is simple – the SLICE was used by specific farms for specific runs for a short time span when the Broughton Archipelago Pinks went […]
Posted in The Tyee on Sep 15th, 2009
Those who complain I’m not even-handed don’t get my purpose. I read comments to this column regularly and both enjoy them and profit from them. In my last article on Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea there were concerns expressed that I was not giving equal time to both sides of the issue so I thought […]
Posted in The Tyee on Sep 7th, 2009
As BC’s sockeye disaster unfolded, she flogged fish farms in Norway. Here is the story from the Black Press, scarcely known for left wing tendencies – The Fraser River sockeye run is winding up and millions of missing salmon still haven’t shown up. The Pacific Salmon Commission estimates the run size at 1.37 million sockeye […]
Posted in The Tyee on Aug 30th, 2009
I don’t like talking about the “old days”. I try to look at the past for lessons only and look at the world and its future through the eyes of my 29 year old grandson. However I must talk about the past today for the death last week of Roy Jacques, newsman and commentator non […]
Posted in The Tyee on Aug 23rd, 2009
When you’re a common scold as I am it’s too easy to lose sight of the main message when the cause expands to include so many issues. I have, I fear, been so afflicted and have unwittingly passed the problem on to you. When I joined Save Our Rivers Society in May of 2008 I […]
Posted in The Tyee on Aug 9th, 2009
Memo to media: time to expose Campbell’s fallacy Last week I spoke of the appalling mainstream media in BC and how it let Premier Gordon Campbell get away with murder of our rivers and the ecologies they support. The exception and a major one is Mark Hume of the Globe and Mail whose BC section, […]
Posted in Save Our Rivers, The Tyee on Aug 2nd, 2009
Those who have followed my checkered career will know of my intense dislike of the CanWest dailies in our town, The Vancouver (Seriously West Coast) Sun and The Province. They are simply lousy papers who play down stories contrary to the government’s interest or policy and save their criticisms until after an election is safely […]
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