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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 21st, 2015
It was an election by younger people if the faces on TV are any indication. Mind you, at my age, almost everyone looks young! It was also an election of change which inevitably means that “strategic voting” took the place of selecting the person that voters think will do the best job. Nowhere was that […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 16th, 2015
If Canadians don’t see a commitment for major change from Monday’s winner, the nastiest and most divisive election in our history, by far, will be for naught. Change is never easy and the results are never perfect. What one looks for is improvement and the ability to make future changes in case what you’ve done […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 15th, 2015
What a way to come to the end of a long life! Thanks to Bill C-24, a breathtaking piece of legislation that the Conservative Government somehow snuck past most Canadians last year, I am now a second-class citizen, though born a sixth generation Canadian. Actually, that part doesn’t matter since the point is I was born an […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 9th, 2015
I am pleased to see that Brent Stafford, shill for the Postmedia Group and Resource Works and their unqualified support for Woodfibre LNG, has chosen to respond in the social media to articles of mine written in this publication. Stafford defends the notion that you can interview with one interviewer then have that interview voiced […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 4th, 2015
I find myself, late in this election campaign, ashamed to be a Canadian. As a longtime supporter of the rights of Quebec going back to days where I was involved in constitutional affairs in this country, I find myself utterly appalled at their creation and fanning of the “niqab” issue. Let’s make no mistake about […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Oct 2nd, 2015
Yesterday in my email inbox, the chickens began to come home to roost for Postmedia – the Canadian newspaper chain. My first letter came from a constant correspondent who gave the Official statistics for BC Hydro losses going back to the old NDP years. Since the Campbell/Clark government, the losses have been staggering and BC Hydro […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 6th, 2015
To: The Rt. Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister Dear Prime Minister, Most issues we face today we’ve faced before. For an older person like myself there is a strong sense of déjà vu. We’ve been through deficits and surpluses; prosperity and recessions; government overspending and government parsimony; and there’s always a list of special issues […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Aug 31st, 2015
Churchill once stated that the best time to predict events was after they had happened and I think he was probably right. The current federal election is demonstrating that predictions at any time are pretty iffy but in a hugely long campaign like this one, they’re positively dangerous. I find myself flying all over the […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Aug 25th, 2015
Before I get onto the federal election, let me say I have never been more depressed about governance in this country. A recent note from a reader pointed out the atrocious record of the Christy Clark government in erasing emails, losing emails, redacting emails (that’s bureaucratese for blacking out anything that might possibly embarrass the government), throwing […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Aug 10th, 2015
A flash of anger came over me when Ian Jessup of CFAX 1070, Victoria, asked me to come on his show and talk about so-called independent power producers (IPPs), euphemistically referred known as “run of river”. No, I sure as hell wasn’t mad at Ian – he’s is one of the few bright lights left in […]
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