Canada’s Best Known Political Commentator
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 3rd, 2010
Here’s an Article by Rafe at The Common Sense Canadian which tells us that even the former Attorney General of Norway and the owner of the world’s largest salmon farming company agree that salmon farms must be moved out of migration routes.
Posted in The Tyee on Nov 16th, 2009
Hobbling BC Hydro so private firms can profit big is bad public policy.
Two Simon Fraser University professors, both experts in power issues, have written scathing critiques of the Campbell government’s energy policy.
First, they affirm the argument I’ve been making for over a year — that BC Hydro is being forced to buy private power at [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Nov 9th, 2009
Far be it from me to ruin the happy tune, but here are three key questions.
I can hear it now… Tom Jones is telling us about stepping off the train… the old house is still standing… there’s his Momma and his Poppa… and of course sweet Mary with hair of gold and lips like cherry… [...]
Posted in Save Our Rivers on Oct 20th, 2009
Buried on Page 2 of the Vancouver Province today, October 20, is a headline “Province halts major transmission system inquiry.” This means that, when you look behind the Campbell government’s never abating never ending fog about energy, this means that the BC Utilities Commission, the public’s watchdog will not carry on its independent investigation into [...]
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 Save Our Rivers on Aug 11th, 2009
The rivers issue is going to put Gordon Campbell and his government inside a box where the sides unceasingly close in. It can’t help but do that as more and more British Columbians understand what has happened.
Campbell was lucky as hell that in the last election the NDP were unable to make this their issue [...]
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, combined [...]
Posted in Save Our Rivers on Aug 7th, 2009
We at Save Our Rivers Society are girding up our loins for the continued battle to save our rivers from the capitalist predation being undertaken with all the help Campbell & Co can give.
I’ve been asked given the Liberals won the last election giving them four more years to do as they wish, we don’t [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Save Our Rivers on Jul 26th, 2009
The Campbell government is a collection of dissemblers such that you can’t take anything they say seriously. The so-called “harmonized sales tax” is the latest example. And isn’t “harmonized” such a lovely warm and fuzzy word? In fact it is nothing more than a raising of the sales tax but to tell people that requires [...]
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