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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 12th, 2011
There are two mining stories out of last week in Lotusland. For openers, let’s deal with “Prosperity” Lake which, before the corporate flacks got involved, was called Fish Lake. The short story is that this is a mine prospect held by Taseko Mines. While the Provincial government approved it, it was turned down by the […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 28th, 2011
There are two stories about pipelines this week – the first was a Vancouver Sun article October 25. Here it is, in part: Sixteen business and labour leaders have signed an open letter to British Columbians urging their support for natural gas and oil pipeline proposals across the northern half of the province which they […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 23rd, 2011
How about a bit of totally nonsensical speculation of the order of “Hitler is alive and well living in Argentina”. Something utterly absurd. I bring to this speculation a very unique history – I’m the only person in captivity who’s been fired twice by Jimmy Pattison. I rather like Jimmy – going out for dinner […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 21st, 2011
See those two dots – one says corporate decency (underneath it says “good corporate citizen”). The other dot says democracy, the rule of law and responsive government. These two dots are joined to make up the dot that says “what a pile of bullshit!” We have to get used to the truth: no company gives […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 19th, 2011
Here is the story from salmon biologist Alexandra Morton: Infectious Salmon Anemia virus has been found in two young sockeye salmon. Sheer reckless, negligent behaviour has loosed a highly infectious fish farm influenza virus into the North Pacific. I have been told over and over by industry and government that this could not happen, but […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 14th, 2011
“Although Communism may be dead in fact if not name, the conditions that spawned and nurtured it are very much with us today. Large corporations have replaced the noblemen, the dwindling middle class is no buffer between the haves and the have-nots, and the rich get richer. Not much different than 1917… Change, unpredictable change, […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 8th, 2011
Will wonders never cease? Was that a mild reproof of Premier Photo-op in Mike Smyth’s column the other day? Was that a mild criticism of the Liberals in Vaughn Palmer’s column last Wednesday? Then was that an out and out criticism by Mr. Palmer in this Thursday’s paper over her half-baked idea to have the […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 27th, 2011
Christy Clark, aka Premier Photo-Op, has a big mess on her hands – but, fear not, she’ll let us all muck about in it. The government is in deepening debt and Ms. Clark can’t pretend that it’s a mystery how that came about. While there are many causes the principal one is that the government […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 19th, 2011
This is the third part of a three part series on civil dissent. In the last article I discounted the possibility that any hearing into the Enbridge pipelines or tanker traffic, to and out of Kitimat and Vancouver would dare stop these projects. I considered and rejected, without saying so, any intervention by the federal […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 13th, 2011
Last week I advised that we must be prepared to lie down in front of machinery aimed at creating the pipelines from the Tar Sands to Kitimat and, as I fully expected, got some heat. We have to face this question before we get into morality and legality issues – why do you suppose that […]
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