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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 19th, 2011
The Vancouver Province has, belatedly to be sure, attacked the BC Energy policy and called it “folly”. I felt it might be appropriate, then, to offer an op-ed article to the Vancouver Sun, which I did on March 1 and which I followed up on March 6 by emails to Fazil Milhar, the Vancouver Sun […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 11th, 2011
This would seem to be as good a time as any to make out a wish list for premier to be, Christy Clark. These are in no particular order. May we please have back out our right to make a judgment as to matters which happen in our own backyard? Such as Independent Power Producers’ […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 10th, 2011
Two very important and apparently unrelated evens occurred last week. On Friday, the Vancouver Province, after years of supporting the Campbell’s environment/energy policy, called it “folly.” On Saturday the Liberals elected Christy Clark as their new leader cum premier. What connects these events? Patience, my children, patience. Ms. Clark’s selection was scarcely a coming together […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 7th, 2011
THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE SAYS THAT PRIVATE POWER DECISION “A FOLLY!” Can the Province’s stablemate, the Sun be far behind? As I settled into this past Friday’s breakfast, I glanced at the title of the Vancouver Province editorial and saw “Hydro needs to get back to its roots”. To my utter astonishment I read the following […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 15th, 2011
Sooner or later the truth must come out. Clearly it must be from outside the government and BC Hydro – and it sure as hell isn’t going to come from the mainstream media. Let me lay this out clearly – either what The Common Sense Canadian says is true or it isn’t. We’ve laid out […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 13th, 2011
The time has come, the walrus said… no Rafe, the Liberal leadership only looks like Alice in Wonderland. It is, though, time for all environmentalists to start looking very seriously at BC politics because after the NDP convention, we’ll be in the countdown to the next election. Even though the election will still be two […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 2nd, 2011
The New Liberal leader will, on several questions, be like the fighter sitting on his stool and refusing to answer the bell because he knows he’s going to get the crap knocked out of him. One of those is BC Rail. Another is private v public power which, in essence, is combined into Campbell’s so-called […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 25th, 2011
With the leadership of both major parties up for grabs you should know what The Common Sense Canadian will be doing from now until the next election. First let me assure you that we are not party-political. We simply support the party that declares for the environment. Thanks to a conspiracy of silence, the mainstream […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 20th, 2011
From my present vantage point a very long way from home the news briefs and emails I receive are very disturbing. It seems pretty clear that the next premier will bear no scars from his/her involvement with the Campbell administration. Indeed, it almost seems as if the media are already looking back at the Campbell […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 17th, 2011
This discourse is indeed about the environment but you must be a tad patient. I’ve long been interested in matters of the soul as first introduced to me by my Mom. If I couldn’t see that a cloud formation looked just like a man on a horse she’d mildly chide me, “Have you no soul […]
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