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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 14th, 2012
Wendy and I, exercising a habit of some years now, are further depleting our kids’ legacies and will be away until January 10, starting with 20 days in the Caribbean then 4 days in Boston visiting friends. It’s been an interesting year in the environmental field. Opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway project is massive […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 11th, 2012
Mike Smyth had an interesting column in Sunday’s Province, dealing with the proposed second and much larger Kinder Morgan Pipeline to Vancouver, which would see a five-fold increase in tanker traffic through Vancouver’s harbour. In it he told us that the company was being very laid back compared with Enbridge, holding a series of public […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 7th, 2012
There is good news in the environment field and, for some reason the Fraser Institute-driven Vancouver Sun won’t talk about it – nor will the Province. The reason they won’t? Because it is a triumph of the people over monetary and Establishment interests. Private power producer AXOR, under subsidiary Purcell Green Power, planned to dam […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 5th, 2012
The Campbell/Clark government is corrupt and here are a few of the reasons I say this: Campbell gets convicted of drunken driving and doesn’t resign as he certainly would have demanded that an NDP premier do The 2009 budget that was over $2 billion short of reality – this amounted to a fraud upon the […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 27th, 2012
The Jumbo Ski Resort planned for the Purcell Mountains has been approved by the provincial government, which has put in place legislation for the area to become a municipality. The setting up of a municipality is so the government will have someone to work with as the various permits are dealt with (which is Liberalese […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 18th, 2012
A couple of thoughts today. A promising article on fish farms appears in today’s Vancouver Sun. At face value it looks like great news – the story of fish farming on land with no contact with the ocean. As I say, it looks great but I want to hear what Alexandra Morton has to say. […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 14th, 2012
When a clock strikes 13, you can never trust it again. So it must be for anyone who lies about information he is using to back up a serious scientific statement upon which a great deal is at stake. Mark Hume had an article in Sunday’s Globe and Mail BC Edition which, in a world […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 5th, 2012
How is the absence of environmental coverage in the media related to Shiral Tobin, who recently shared a Webster Award for “BEST FEATURE STORY – RADIO”? Simple – when Shiral was my producer on CKNW and later did the night show for them, ballsy radio was still in vogue. Before I go further, let me […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 1st, 2012
There are several things that jumped out at me with the Cohen Commission Final Report, released yesterday. The first is that my faith in Bruce Cohen as expressed on CBC’s Early Edition right after his name was announced has been fully justified. I said then that I knew the man, had fought in court with […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 29th, 2012
I don’t suppose that many of you have not by now heard of FIPA (Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement), the trade deal between Canada and China Stephen Harper is pushing forward – and I don’t suppose that many of you, including me, have a full comprehension of what this will mean to trade, not […]
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