The Village of Lions Bay's Most Prominent Political Commentator
Posted in General on May 27th, 2016
Play ball! It’s time for my annual baseball pitching and prediction column. I’m a bit late this year because I got off to a late start. I’m not quite sure why that happened. I think it had something to do with the early games being the same old same old as the year before. Newcomers […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 20th, 2016
My Nova Scotia pen pal, the voice of common sense in this country, Silver Donald Cameron, is fond of saying “laws are made by those who have the power to enforce them.” My own variation is that the people who make the laws are the ones that use them and you can judge that from […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 13th, 2016
Richard Zussman is B.C. provincial affairs reporter for the CBC based in Victoria, and he’s predicted that Premier Clark will win the election in a year’s time. For what it’s worth, I think he’s right and readers will know I’ve been saying that for sometime, although certainly without any enthusiasm. The economy and nothing else […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 9th, 2016
The term “conflict of interest” poses difficulties for many people. That’s because lawyers make money by confusing simple things. If one has a public duty and private interest in the same area as that public duty, it’s a conflict, plain and simple. It does not mean that this person is a crook or making illegal […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 8th, 2016
I’ve watched the NDP with considerable interest since its foundation in 1961 as an amalgamation of organized labour and other left-wing groups. I thought that it would form government within a decade because the Conservative Party would fold and go away, the Liberals would move to the right, leaving the NDP on the centre-left in […]
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