Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 31st, 2017
It will be a much postponed verdict but my initial reaction to the NDP-Green deal is positive. Whether so motivated or not, Andrew Weaver has done the right politically moral thing – contradiction in terms though that is – by agreeing to support John Horgan and the NDP. It is particularly laudable in the form […]
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Posted in Audio on May 30th, 2017
Rafe’s appearance on May 29, 2017, as a guest on The Goddard Report. The topics include, can the new Canadian Tory leader beat Trudeau? Click here to listen.
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 24th, 2017
You can go to hell, Rachel Notley. Now, everyone, repeat after me. OK? Here we go. There is no risk in transporting Alberta’s bitumen through our forests, over our rivers, past our sparkling, azure lakes, through our cities, into Vancouver Harbour, over the Salish Sea, past the Gulf Islands, through the Straits of Juan de […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 11th, 2017
It’s May 10, 2017 as I write this, an appropriate date to examine the election, being the anniversary of the Nazi invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940 and the day Winston Churchill came to the rescue. Like then, much of the information during the campaign was questionable and virtually all of the […]
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Posted in General on May 6th, 2017
I had intended, with my latest article in the Common Sense Canadian, to end commentary on the May 9 election but Premier Clark, Hall of Fame fibber and hypocrite, has outdone herself with her proposed $70-a-tonne carbon levy on exports of thermal coal from British Columbian ports, a move that will devastate producers in both […]
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Posted in Audio on May 5th, 2017
Rafe’s appearance on May 3, 2017, as a guest on The Goddard Report. The topics are the BC provincial election, education, and health care. Click here to listen.
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 4th, 2017
Like a large number of people in the WestVancouver- Sea-To-Sky constituency, I am breaking the usual rules – I want the NDP to form the next government but I am passionately opposed to Woodfibre LNG which the NDP candidate supports. If I were to support her, my neighbours, with every justification in the world, would lynch […]
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