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Posted in The Tyee on Dec 27th, 2012
Is a May election that puts in power true defenders of BC’s natural bounty. To me the dominant issue before all others going into May’s provincial election is the environment. Fiscal fudge-ups can be fixed as can most bad policy. But environmental damage — be it due to fish farms, pipelines, tankers, Site C or […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 14th, 2012
Wendy and I, exercising a habit of some years now, are further depleting our kids’ legacies and will be away until January 10, starting with 20 days in the Caribbean then 4 days in Boston visiting friends. It’s been an interesting year in the environmental field. Opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway project is massive […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 11th, 2012
Mike Smyth had an interesting column in Sunday’s Province, dealing with the proposed second and much larger Kinder Morgan Pipeline to Vancouver, which would see a five-fold increase in tanker traffic through Vancouver’s harbour. In it he told us that the company was being very laid back compared with Enbridge, holding a series of public […]
Posted in The Tyee on Dec 10th, 2012
I’ll show you my Christmas, you show me your Ramadan. Why are we afraid of holidays born of history? I say let’s put Christ back into Christmas! I am a lapsed Christian, still groping for answers. Ever since I did a TV series on religion, I’ve been groping far and wide with limited success. Actually, […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 7th, 2012
There is good news in the environment field and, for some reason the Fraser Institute-driven Vancouver Sun won’t talk about it – nor will the Province. The reason they won’t? Because it is a triumph of the people over monetary and Establishment interests. Private power producer AXOR, under subsidiary Purcell Green Power, planned to dam […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 5th, 2012
The Campbell/Clark government is corrupt and here are a few of the reasons I say this: Campbell gets convicted of drunken driving and doesn’t resign as he certainly would have demanded that an NDP premier do The 2009 budget that was over $2 billion short of reality – this amounted to a fraud upon the […]
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