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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 7th, 2015
The Vancouver Sun – rapidly becoming, if it hasn’t already become the “Pravda” of Vancouver – has done it again with another article supporting LNG and the proposed Squamish plant. This one is by a father and daughter combination and they come to what to me, at any rate, is an amazing conclusion. LNG would help […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 28th, 2015
I am a lifetime contrarian. Whatever I’m supposed to do, I rebel against. I have not changed much in my dotage. But I’m going to vote “Yes” in the Transit Plebiscite, notwithstanding the fact that I have grave concerns about the Translink and the city councils offering their ideas about how to spend the money. There are […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 26th, 2015
Howe Sound needs the help of all British Columbians and it needs it now. The proposed Woodfibre LNG plant in Squamish has got some very powerful allies. Both governments support it. That means that there’s no point in citizens seeking help from their MP or MLA, who in fact are the vanguard of the enemy […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 7th, 2015
I must apologize for being an alarmist. I now discover there is no reason for concern about hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking”. I have been alleging that this process of “mining” natural gas is dangerous not only to the atmosphere and the people around the process, but to the water used and the potential damage […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 23rd, 2015
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has thrown down the gauntlet with his promise of federal tax giveaways for LNG enterprises. I expected this sort of nonsense – just one look at the smug sneer of power on the face of James Moore, Minister of Industry, over the last few months, indicated that this decision was coming and […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 14th, 2015
Welcome to Ruritania! Where is Peter Sellers when we need him? We now have a legislature pretending to act like big kids do, leaders acting as if they really are in charge, a government out of control, and an opposition dedicated more to supporting the government than to raising issues. Through the looking glass: Clark’s […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 3rd, 2015
There’s big news on the environmental front! Ben West, the eminent young environmentalist until now with Forest Ethics and, before that, the Wilderness Committee, has joined Rex Weyler fighting tanker traffic on the BC coast through Tanker Free BC. This makes a very potent combination indeed. (Full disclosure: My colleague, Common Sense Canadian publisher Damien Gillis, is a […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 31st, 2014
I come today in praise of the Vancouver Sun and trust that events don’t prove that I should’ve approached the mainstream media with my usual skepticism. First, let me tell you a story from my early life which you may have heard and, if so, please bear with me. Coho spawn in the darndest places […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 23rd, 2014
I’ve been very critical, especially recently in the tyee.ca, of John Horgan, leader of the NDP, and the Official Opposition itself. This is, I assure you, nothing personal but is entirely a matter of the quality of the opposition presented and the effect it has on forming public opinion. Socred praise for Barrett NDP A […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 19th, 2014
There is surely nothing quite as ridiculous as a Tory pretending that he cares. Money and rich friends they understand but when it comes to the values that ordinary people revere they’re at sea. In fact they’re bewildered by those who think that the poor ought to be considered by society or that such things […]
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