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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jul 21st, 2017
In politics, speculation is half the fun – the other half is figuring out how, with all your experience in the field, you could have been so bloody wrong. Actually, for the new minister, the reasons he or she is usually wrong are predictable as hell to a guy like me – not because I’m […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 4th, 2017
Like a large number of people in the WestVancouver- Sea-To-Sky constituency, I am breaking the usual rules – I want the NDP to form the next government but I am passionately opposed to Woodfibre LNG which the NDP candidate supports. If I were to support her, my neighbours, with every justification in the world, would lynch […]
Posted in The Tyee on Aug 5th, 2013
Their shared nightmare unfolds: four more years of Liberal reign. The environmental movement is in a deep funk. You can feel it. At least for the time being the fire has gone out of the environmental belly. Of course this is because the Liberals won the May 14 election. If they have their way it […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jun 12th, 2013
Ok, John Horgan (BC NDP Energy critic), now I’m pissed off. You were quoted in the Vancouver Sun this week as saying you’re unhappy that the NDP lost, etc, weep, sob. Here it is in plain, unadorned English: I TOLD YOU SO! In fact, my advice to you and your party has been constant and goes back […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 10th, 2013
Is their approach to campaigning and politics in general. Here’s why. It was a smashing defeat for British Columbia’s New Democrats. In my view, it will be difficult for them to be in fighting form before 2021. I understand that eight years is a long time and that in politics a week is an eternity. […]
Posted in General on Oct 4th, 2010
Last Saturday Dave Barrett, Shirley, his wife of 57 years and their family celebrated his 80th birthday, a good moment, I think, to look back on his career. Dave became leader of the NDP in 1969 when the NDP under my old classmate, Tom Berger, lost yet another election to WAC Bennett. He led them […]
Posted in General on Jul 29th, 2010
The political system in BC cries out for a third party, a new Social Credit party. While we all bitch about every government, from today’s vantage point the Bill Bennett government looks pretty damned good! At the outset, the Liberals under Gordon Wilson looked like the Socreds re-branded. That perception stayed until Gordon Campbell launched […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jul 19th, 2010
Polls show BC’s Liberals are wounded. Carole James had better not assume they are dead. The latest polls put Gordon (Pinocchio) Campbell in deep doo-doo at 23 points behind the NDP. First, let’s talk about what this means for the NDP. As Carole James looks at the numbers she will note that while the Liberals […]
Posted in The Tyee on May 10th, 2010
Voters are mad as hell, but that’s a long way from building a serious ‘third party.’ There is a lot of chatter about a significant new party coming to B.C. politics. Given the appalling state of governance and opposition, such a discussion is not surprising. Gordon Campbell and his so-called Liberals are in high odor […]
Posted in The Tyee on Mar 29th, 2010
If NDP can’t win voters in middle, maybe someone else should try. One of the real downers in this business is having to criticize, if not dump on, people you like. And politicians, like most people, are pretty nice people who are trying to do a good job. However, I don’t think Carole James can […]
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