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Posted in The Tyee on Jul 7th, 2014
Gone are childish notions dismissive of native land claims. The Tsilhqot’in (Roger William) case is a game changer. There is aboriginal title and it does not depend, as our title to our houses does, upon the Crown but is totally independent of Crown interests. Moreover — and this is perhaps of more immediate concern — […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jan 25th, 2014
Article by David Beers at The Tyee: Late in the afternoon of Dec. 15 Rafe Mair decided it was time to take a break from moving books out of his downstairs office in the modest Lions Bay condo he shares with his wife Wendy. He climbed the 14 stairs up to the living room that […]
Posted in The Tyee on Sep 16th, 2013
Two predictions: She can’t pass it. Creating a fail for BC. Premier Clark used to be Minister of Education so I’m sure she would be delighted to answer a few questions from old Uncle Rafe, the friendly schoolmaster. Madam Premier, you won a memorable victory last May and no one can deny it, no matter […]
Posted in The Tyee on Sep 3rd, 2013
How BC Liberals are shutting off our province’s energy options. “O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Sir Walter Scott said a mouthful! We British Columbians are the ongoing and apparently disinterested victims of a world-class deception and it has gone on since 2002 when Gordon Campbell announced British […]
Posted in The Tyee on Aug 19th, 2013
How much dissent can be aired by Canada’s public broadcaster? This is about the CBC and I assure you that I don’t intend to sneer or be an anti-arts blockhead. My column is spawned by a letter I got from a neighbour, and friend, asking me to contribute to keep the CBC from collapsing under […]
Posted in The Tyee on Aug 5th, 2013
Their shared nightmare unfolds: four more years of Liberal reign. The environmental movement is in a deep funk. You can feel it. At least for the time being the fire has gone out of the environmental belly. Of course this is because the Liberals won the May 14 election. If they have their way it […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jul 22nd, 2013
What ails Rafe Mair? The illogic of what MSP does and doesn’t pay for. “Comprehensiveness: All necessary health services, including hospitals, physicians and surgical dentists must be insured.” This is one of the five principles of Medicare, and it’s so interpreted as to avoid keeping people healthy and to avoid medical costs. Let’s assume a […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jul 9th, 2013
Private profit and a few jobs aren’t worth undoing Howe Sound’s miraculous recovery. I confess at the outset that I have a personal interest in this — but so do you, for it affects a part of our province that ought to have had worldwide and local classification as a wildlife preserve long ago. Burnco […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 24th, 2013
Six issues the press must cover to hold power in this province accountable. Now that the BC Liberals have a new four-year mandate we need media vigilance more than ever. Although to see it in action you wouldn’t know it, the press has special constitutional protection both in our written and unwritten constitutions which give […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 10th, 2013
Is their approach to campaigning and politics in general. Here’s why. It was a smashing defeat for British Columbia’s New Democrats. In my view, it will be difficult for them to be in fighting form before 2021. I understand that eight years is a long time and that in politics a week is an eternity. […]
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