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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian, The Tyee on Jul 8th, 2012
Robyn Allan is the former President and CEO of the Insurance Corporation of BC and is an economist by trade. I have enormous respect for Ms. Allan and concur with her conclusion, stated frequently and as recently as July 6 in The Vancouver Sun, that the proposed Enbridge Pipeline will have a deleterious impact on […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 27th, 2012
BC’s crucial environmental battles pit citizens against politicians’ love of corporate money. Call out the militia! The capitalist hordes are at the gate! Corporations have a legal body but no conscience or soul. They look out for themselves alone and don’t give a rat’s posterior for anything else. Do I sound like a radical to […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 11th, 2012
Why we can’t depend on our provincial leaders to protect our interests. Canada, but especially British Columbia, is headed towards a very nasty showdown and nobody in charge wants to address the reasons. Things have changed — a lot according to Jeff Rubin and his book The End of Growth (reviewed today on The Tyee […]
Posted in The Tyee on May 28th, 2012
Are we a society that cares for one another? Taxes are a key measure. As I get closer and closer to the day of reckoning I find myself thinking a lot about the Bigger Issues — and events I’ll never live to see. As Samuel Johnson said, “depend upon it sir, a hanging in a […]
Posted in The Tyee on May 14th, 2012
Pundits celebrating BC Lib defector’s Railgate statements should dredge up his fish farm file. Writer Nelson Algren had as three rules of life: “Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.” To this I might add […]
Posted in The Tyee on Apr 30th, 2012
There was a time when BC’s politicians had the nerve to say no. Political times have changed mightily since I left the legislature 32 years ago. Of course one would expect change over such a long period, but I’m not talking about the coming and goings of leaders and such. I speak of a sea […]
Posted in The Tyee on Apr 17th, 2012
By bringing back the Mental Health Advocate her party yanked. There are 600,000 British Columbians with mental health issues. I am one of them. If the physically ill in our province were dealt with as mentally ill people are, the legislature and its lawn would be crammed with irate people and there would be violence. […]
Posted in The Tyee on Apr 2nd, 2012
Why Premier Clark has her hands full keeping her own party in line. Premier Christy Clark is in a lot of trouble — especially if she loses the Chilliwack byelection to the Conservatives which, with John Van Dongen crossing to the Conservatives, is almost a certainty. That she’s in trouble anyway has been (finally) canvassed […]
Posted in The Tyee on Mar 19th, 2012
Under a premier’s iron fist, our representatives quiver. Here’s the fix. I’m going to vouchsafe unto you the secret of radically improving government. On Dec. 11, 1975, I was elected MLA for the then-single riding of Kamloops, on the Socred ticket under Bill Bennett. During my time as a minister, I had the extraordinary good […]
Posted in The Tyee on Mar 6th, 2012
Driven by one irrational fear, business leaders ignore host of financial pratfalls by Campbell/Clark. The emperor has no clothes, nor has the empress for that matter. As I read about the fawning receptions by the Vancouver Board of Trade for former premier Gordon Campbell and the present premier, I found it nauseating and bewildering — […]
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