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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 28th, 2015
In the news recently was an item about Paul V. Godfrey, C.M., the President of Postmedia, the largest newspaper chain in the country, owning some 15 papers in major centres plus a slew of community papers across the land. M. Godfrey has been admitted to the Canadian News Hall of Fame. I have one or […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 23rd, 2015
I suggest that everyone listen to this immediately – it is John Horgan, leader of the BC NDP, promising to shut down Site C and make up the energy difference through conservation, wind and solar power (listen here yourself to his CBC Daybreak North interview from Monday morning). Site C is something that never should […]
Posted in General on Nov 22nd, 2015
By K.Hess at Chanticleer Book Reviews: I Remember Horsebuns by Rafe Mair, a historical memoir You can purchase it in paperback here.
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 21st, 2015
Before starting, let me state that there is no excusing the massacre in Paris, nor 9/11. When it comes to death of innocent civilians there is no equivalency, period. The Canadian Establishment has always believed that some newcomers are more desirable than others. A small example – my father, aged 7, arrived with his parents in […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 16th, 2015
Political pundits are busy analyzing the recent NDP convention and I can tell you it’s easier to interpret the entrails of a rooster. Conventions organized to look like sunny expressions of the party’s solidarity and readiness for an election usually disguise more than they reveal. What this NDP clambake tells me is that the party […]
Posted in General on Nov 13th, 2015
It’s deja vu all over again. A decade or more ago it was the late Doug Collins who was insulting minorities left and right, denying the Holocaust, or the extent of it, and defending his bile by saying he was exercising free speech. Tendentious though that claim was, I defended Collins in print and on […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 10th, 2015
Like most Canadians, I’ve a spent much of the past week or so trying to figure out what the general election really meant. As I did, a horrible thought occurred to me – my perspective might just be affected by the number of grey hairs I’ve gathered over the years! One’s age, gender, and position […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 7th, 2015
Can the Conservative Party come back? Of course, but first, the Conservative Party must return. Sound confusing? It’s not. The pre-Harper party wasn’t remotely like his bunch. It’s not enough to get rid of Stephen Harper if you don’t also get rid of his party, which goes back to the Faustian bargain between Harper and Peter […]
Posted in General on Nov 6th, 2015
“Regardless of the committees you’re on, the roles you have, regardless of party demands, and the partisanship that will continue to exist in this House … your one job, that you cannot ever forget, is to be a strong voice in service of the people who sent you here from your constituencies.” Justin Trudeau to […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 2nd, 2015
If you don’t think that the approval of an LNG plant in Squamish – Woodfibre LNG – was a raw political decision, you not only believe in the tooth fairy, you must be the tooth fairy herself. The alleged “environmental assessment” by the Province, was a farce – as has been the federal process thus […]
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