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Posted in The Tyee on Mar 29th, 2010
If NDP can’t win voters in middle, maybe someone else should try. One of the real downers in this business is having to criticize, if not dump on, people you like. And politicians, like most people, are pretty nice people who are trying to do a good job. However, I don’t think Carole James can […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 28th, 2010
Excerpt: “What madness this all is! Wasn’t the idea that we’d wean ourselves off oil and concentrate our efforts and our money on substitutes? Can’t we see that by extracting oil that can only be viable if the price of oil is near $100 a barrel that we’re in fact making the high price of […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 26th, 2010
This province is facing the battle of all battles over the using of Fish Lake and over Enbridge’s proposed Gateway pipeline, which would carry oil from the oil sands to the B.C. coast for export by tanker to Asian markets. I want to deal with Fish Lake in this column but will deal with […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 18th, 2010
In this province, those who care for the environment must be their own media. Tom Paine, the “media” catalyst for the American Revolution, rallied Americans with the stirring words “these are the times that try men’s souls”. Are these words applicable to British Columbia, its governments and the farmed fish issue?” I say, clearly yes, […]
Posted in The Tyee on Mar 16th, 2010
Notes from a quick, guided visit to Saigon, er, Ho Chi Minh City. My mandate, I think, is to a write a political column for these pages, which I’m about to do, so don’t confuse this with a travelogue. Wendy and I have just returned from the trip of a lifetime, a 37-day cruise which […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 11th, 2010
Rafe tells us that the provincial government is again considering slaughtering wolves from helicopters. He tells us why this was a bad idea in 1979, and it’s a bad idea now. Article at The Common Sense Canadian: Why Are We Still Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?
Posted in Rafe Today on Mar 11th, 2010
More Please!!! by Marvin Shaffer Every now and again you read something so outrageous you have to laugh. So it is with the report recently released by BC Citizens for Clean Energy: A Triple Legacy for Future Generations. The essence of this lobby group’s proposal is that the government should develop an export policy for […]
Posted in The Tyee on Mar 10th, 2010
Susan Inman’s memoir is a must read for any family faced with schizophrenia, and for our health system, too. After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity Susan Inman Bridgeross Communications/Ingram Books (2010) I suffer from depression and have been treated for it for more than 20 years. My problem is anxiety — […]
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 Mar 3rd, 2010
Each new wave of digital device takes an extreme disliking to me. It seems to be axiomatic that the older people get, the harder it is for them to make changes. The old ways were better. This newfangled stuff will ruin civilization, or at least the part which isn’t already ruined. I try to avoid […]
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