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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 6th, 2014
I suppose it’s not unusual for an electorate to feel swindled. It sure as hell happens often enough. The BC electorate has every right to feel swindled in the election of 2013 by the Christy Clark government’s solemn promise to make us all wealthy through LNG plants. This was a very specific promise and even […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 2nd, 2014
Premier Christy Clark has taken it upon herself to criticize the parents of Premier Christy Clark has taken it upon herself to criticize the parents of two 11-year-olds who protested the Kinder Morgan action in Burnaby and were only not arrested because the police chose to refrain from doing so. The premier is concerned that […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 28th, 2014
I’m inspired, if that’s the right word, from two quite irreconcilable sources. First, the Vancouver Sun editorial of last Thursday, and secondly a wonderful movie called Revolution, by Canadian Rob Stewart, which I urge you to see. The Sun editorial, amongst other things, mocks those who are protesting at Burnaby Mountain and all who generally […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 23rd, 2014
Derek Corrigan is my kind of mayor. So is Gregor Robertson. Both of these mayors are prepared to look beyond the immediate concerns of their city and take a broader view. I have no doubt that Robertson, who won very handily I might add, did so because he was fighting Kinder Morgan. Without any question, […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 20th, 2014
“If the Law says that”, said Mr. Bumble, “the Law is an ass”. The good citizens of Burnaby have lost their case against the large international corporation, Houston-based Kinder Morgan, who wish to extend their pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby. The company sought and received from the Court an injunction to keep protesters from interfering with their […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 7th, 2014
I’m sure, like me, you were excited to read in the Vancouver Sun for November 4 that LNG Canada (Shell and its Asian partners) will build a plant in Kitimat which will be very, very “green” and put even less greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere than the maximum prescribed by the BC government. Oh, there […]
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 The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 18th, 2014
Nowhere in the appalling record of the Liberal government in Victoria has its shortcomings been more obvious than at the very top. Premier Christy Clark has been a terrible leader whose pronouncements get more and more embarrassing as time passes. However, she so dominates the government that one is hard-pressed to think of even the names […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Aug 19th, 2014
I am afraid I really am a gloomy Gus today. It has just struck me that there is an absence of good guys in the world. Whether it’s big business or government they mostly do it to us and reek of self interest. We don’t seem to have anybody we can trust anymore. There was […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jul 6th, 2014
The Tsilhqot’in First Nation’s Roger Williams case victory settles the question once and for all: there is aboriginal title, it is effective, and it can be enforced by aboriginal peoples. This is a long way from where the law was 25 years ago and for many people that will take some getting used to. No doubt […]
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