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Posted in General on Oct 29th, 2014
As the oldie Frank Sinatra sang about love and marriage, “you can’t have one without the other”. Without free speech, there can be no free press and without that, there can be no democracy. Even at the best of times which these surely are not, A.J. Libeling summed up the sad truth when he said, […]
Posted in The Tyee on Oct 28th, 2014
We need a stronger option for hospital imprisonment. I write this with considerable trepidation. The chances are very good that the reader will misunderstand what I am saying and conclude that either I favour kiddie porn and things like that or that I am soft on people who commit sexual offences, or both. Neither of […]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2014
In today’s Sun sports page, there is a wonderful article by Mike Beamish on the 1964 BC Lions, who that year won their first Grey Cup. This was the year after they lost it in Vancouver when Angela Mosca of the Hamilton Tiger Cats, their 1964 opponents, very illegally piled on Willie Fleming after the […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 26th, 2014
The incapacitation of a Russian cargo vessel off Haida Gwaii caused great panic amongst all of us who watched the events unfold over the past weekend. The seas were very heavy – not an unusual state of affairs for that part of the world at this and other times of the year. For very good reason, […]
Posted in General on Oct 20th, 2014
It is with some regret that I form today Apple Haters International. I will be the interim president until the thousands of prospective members from all around the world come, as I suspect, within the next few hours, and we can democratically elect a Board of Trustees, militant variety. There is, of course, a reason […]
Posted in The Tyee on Oct 14th, 2014
As BC’s promised gas boom goes pffft, Premier Clark must come clean. The entire question of LNG has reached a sorry pass indeed. The premier’s policy seems to be crumbling before our eyes. Let’s not forget that Premier Clark and her Liberals pulled the 2013 election out of the jaws of defeat by promising a […]
Posted in General on Oct 13th, 2014
I am off hockey as many of you will know. It should’ve been a great start for the season. For the Rafe of old, the Canadiens beat the Leafs on opening night, in Toronto, 4 to 3 scoring the winning goal with 33 seconds to go and not on a power-play. In days of yore […]
Posted in General on Oct 7th, 2014
The Christy Clark government’s back down on LNG, as evidenced by the throne speech, is an admission that Ms Clark and her colleagues misled the public in the 2013 election and is an unmitigated disgrace. As we all remember, Ms. Clark, found herself badly behind in that election. Something had to be done. She turned […]
Posted in General on Oct 2nd, 2014
Learning that a substantial donation has been made to UBC for Alzheimers research brought to the attention of the public that former premier Bill Bennett is in an advanced stage of the disease. This is something that friends have known for some time. Wendy and I had dinner with Bill and Audrey just before Bill […]
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