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Posted in The Tyee on Jul 26th, 2009
Dubious bluster from BC Libs on e-mails, river power The Campbell government has lost its moral compass, if it ever had one. Let me give you two examples, starting with the private rivers policy. Finance Minister Colin Hansen has a video clip. Here’s the link if it hasn’t been removed by a government noted for […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jul 20th, 2009
Less than two weeks ago Bud Mercer, head of the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit looking after security for the 2010 Olympics, raised with Vancouver City Council the specter of the violent clashes that rocked World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle and Quebec City. To combat this forecast of the dangers Mercer thinks they foretell, […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jul 13th, 2009
I was having lunch (on me as usual) with my editor last week and we were wondering aloud why the Campbell government would possibly intentionally destroy our rivers and BC Hydro, a power company that’s the envy of North America. I mentioned to Dave that I believed it was a matter of ideology based on […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jul 6th, 2009
You will remember learning a couple of weeks ago that Marine Harvest, the principal Norwegian fish farmer despoiling our waters and killing our fish, had filed their factum in their appeal against Alexandra’s Supreme Court Judgment and had not appealed the constitutional finding that only the federal government had jurisdiction over fish farms. There was […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 29th, 2009
A couple of weeks ago Wendy and I took off for London. I was bushed having campaigned, unsuccessfully all over the province against the erroneously so-called “run of rivers” policy. I hate to say it but we at Save Our Rivers will be proved right and we’ll see the end of our rivers, the end […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 22nd, 2009
Today, in 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union less than two years after the world shocking Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement in August of 1939, and just days before France and Britain declared war on Germany. Despite warnings from Churchill who was picking up German messages through the Ultra Machine the Brits had, Stalin was taken by surprise […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 15th, 2009
The election is dead! Long live the election! I believe that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will go to the people this Fall mainly because he doesn’t want to have to bring down a budget in early 2010 knowing that it will be chock-a-block full of bad news. We in BC always think that our votes […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 8th, 2009
In this nation of second chances, he’s earned one. We’re a province of wimps as the recent election demonstrated. Where was the anger at the Campbell government forcing BC Hydro to contract with private power companies for power they don’t need, these contracts now at $31 Billion and climbing? Where was the swell of public […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 2nd, 2009
Notes on Huntington’s win, James’s loss, Campbell’s heir. First, heartiest congratulations to Vicki Huntington in Delta. Liberal Attorney-General Wally Oppal said he didn’t realize how angry people were at the government. If the previous MLA, Val Roddick, had bothered to turn up to any of the rallies against overhead transmission lines or the new highway […]
Posted in The Tyee on May 19th, 2009
I tried to raise key election issues. Some big enviro groups, and most reporters, looked away. As the provincial election unfolded, we saw serious rifts exposed in the environmental movement. Where does it go now after the massive Campbell win, ratifying his plans to ravage our seas and rivers? In the vacuum created by that […]
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