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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 6th, 2015
To: The Rt. Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister Dear Prime Minister, Most issues we face today we’ve faced before. For an older person like myself there is a strong sense of déjà vu. We’ve been through deficits and surpluses; prosperity and recessions; government overspending and government parsimony; and there’s always a list of special issues […]
Posted in The Tyee on Mar 2nd, 2015
Harper’s niqab stand seems ‘deliciously timed’ for a fall election. What the hell is the matter with us, anyway? The prime minister of Canada goes out of his way to criticize the Federal Court of Canada because it permitted a woman to take the oath of citizenship while wearing a niqab, a veil. She made […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 23rd, 2015
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has thrown down the gauntlet with his promise of federal tax giveaways for LNG enterprises. I expected this sort of nonsense – just one look at the smug sneer of power on the face of James Moore, Minister of Industry, over the last few months, indicated that this decision was coming and […]
Posted in The Tyee on Feb 16th, 2015
Is Harper pushing us towards a new McCarthyism? Prime Minister Stephen Harper, unless thwarted by a surge of surprising voter intelligence, has found the winning formula. Leading his coven of three-piece-suit and pearl necklace know-nothings, he will rally the electorate in a rout of the mortally dangerous non-Christian hordes within and without our borders, saving […]
Posted in The Tyee on Sep 15th, 2014
And ruminations on the federal election we must soon endure. This is about the federal election and our province, but first… One almost hates to pay any attention to the man. Brian Mulroney, a certified fudger of facts to his own advantage, has now taken on almost everybody within his range. God knows I have […]
Posted in General on Jul 19th, 2014
The Conservative government of Stephen Harper and his lackey John Baird ought to be ashamed of themselves as indeed the country should be ashamed of them. Their position with respect to Israel and Gaza is so short sighted as to be a national disgrace and should be condemned by all Canadians. It would be idle […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 28th, 2013
It’s past time that we began to examine the word “process” as it relates to the environment. It has become, you see, a federal buzz word for sacrificing the environment while making it look all nice and legal. Last fall, I, along with Ben West of the Wilderness Committee, spoke to a group at a […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 17th, 2013
I do not pretend for a second to know what is on the mind of First Nations leaders who have been skeptical of “Crown-First Nations” meetings such as took place this past Friday and the follow-ups currently being scheduled. Leaders like Union of BC Indian Chiefs’ Grand Chief Sewart Phillip and chiefs from Manitoba, Ontario […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jul 5th, 2012
I have received a lot of feedback on my recent blog on John Weston, MP. Let me say that this was directed to Weston because he is my MP and it applies with equal force to all Tory MPs from British Columbia. I’ve been asked if I would resign were I in John’s position and […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 4th, 2012
I think the Harper budget is a plus for the environment. It comes in a way from a roundabout look at things. The government will take habitat protection out of the Fisheries Act and will put developments on a “fast track”. Why is this good news? Because we now have it in writing what the […]
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