Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 22nd, 2012
The Wilderness Committee, Canada’s largest member-based environmental organization, honoured hall of fame broadcaster and co-founder of The Common Sense Canadian Rafe Mair with its annual Eugene Rogers Award for outstanding contribution to environmental protection in BC at its AGM this past weekend. Mair, who joins a long list of distinguished recipients of the annual award […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 12th, 2012
By the time this is published I’ll be away for two weeks on a neat cruise – Vancouver to Puerto Vallarta and return, no airplanes. I’m often told, “You must be pretty well off to afford all these cruises,” but the fact is that if I had another ten or fifteen years to go I […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 8th, 2012
You should read Environment Minister Terry Lake’s op-ed piece in Friday’s Vancouver Sun. If ever you needed proof of the utter incompetence of the Campbell/Clark government this will do it. He gives the government position re the proposed Enbridge pipeline. Lake calls for the Joint Review Panel to “successfully complete the environment review process”. What […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 5th, 2012
I’ve been in and watching politics for a few years now and have seen a lot of politicians come and go. As a child I remember my parents always chiding Mackenzie King for his weirdness, yet always voting for him. Back then I was a precocious little bastard and loved politics and remember how my […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 3rd, 2012
Today is a twofer – two for the price of one. First, I’m beginning to feel sorry for Premier Christy Clark. She is a very nice person, personable and able to speak. What she is not capable of doing is speaking sensibly or making decisions that make sense. It seems obvious to me that she […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 29th, 2012
The joke used to be, “How can you tell when a lawyer isn’t telling the truth? The answer is when you see his lips move”. Now substitute politician and you’ve got it right. Premier Clark will just happen to be in Edmonton next week and hopes that the Alberta Premier would like to have a […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 22nd, 2012
I have, for Premier Clark, an offer she can’t possibly turn down. She refuses to call the Legislature into session because it will only make pundits and politicians (presumably she means those in the opposition) happy. In her view it’s better for the great unwashed if she goes on the road, from time to time, […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 18th, 2012
I see that all civilization and some uncivilizations, like the USA, want Paul Watson’s hide. Just so there’s no doubt, I’ve known and supported Paul for over 30 years and for many years been on the Sea Shepherd Society’s Board of Advisors. I have supported him all that time because, in my view, he’s doing […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 14th, 2012
If you skipped A20 of Friday’s Province or B3 of the Sun, you would not know that Former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed had died. Such are priorities of Postmedia. I first met him at a Western Premier’s Conference, in 1976, at dinner. It was not one of my better moments. Bll Bennett cracked a one-liner […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 13th, 2012
Sometimes a good dose of introspection is good for the soul…and as a test of whatever principles you now espouse. I’m always amused when someone accuses me me of “inconsistency”, which reminds me of Emerson’s aphorism, “foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”. It remains, obviously, to decide if my changes in position are […]
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