Elmer Derrick and Enbridge VP Janet Holder IS IT TRUE ELMER DERRICK IS “THE” GITXSAN HEREDITARY CHIEF? Commentary by Merv Ritchie, Terrace Daily, Dec. 11, 2011 This is the claim recently made in a commentary Elmer Derrick submitted and had published in the Vancouver Sun, “Elmer Derrick is the hereditary
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Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Harper’s boondoggles
F-35 production a troubling example of Pentagon spending, Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2011: “Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took the Senate floor on Dec. 15 and described the F-35 fighter program as “a mess.” “What upset the senator was not just that the cost of each plane had risen
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Canada trails USA in risk awareness
Canadian media doesn’t provide much detail but ProPublica, the American non-profit doing fine investigative reporting, is examining dangers of gas and oil production through hydraulic fracturing. In an earlier article here, we linked to ProPublica’s report on unregulated fracking in BC and Alberta. Today, Abrahm Lustgarten, the reporter with an
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Majority supports Keystone XL, or do they?
Wetland oil spill – Evi, Alberta Vancouver Sun headlines: U.S. majority supports controversial Keystone XL pipeline project: poll “A majority of U.S. voters still support TransCanada Corp’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline as the Obama administration again weighs whether to approve or scrap the project, according to a new poll. “Rasmussen
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Heritage and Environment: Forgedaboudit
The Athabasca River Basin 1,538 km in length, the Athabasca River is Alberta’s longest undammed river and its second largest by volume. The river drains the 159,000 km² Athabasca River Basin before eventually flowing into the Arctic Ocean via the Mackenzie River. It is a Canadian Heritage River because of
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: BC Government: Frack the barriers to pollution
British Columbia taxpayers reward energy companies that pollute. The province enacted a series of incentives, including self-regulation, right to pollute without punishment, access to fresh water, reduced royalties and credits for building roads and pipelines. Oh, Canada’s Become a Home for Record Fracking, Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Early last year, deep
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Men Who Pray At Goats?
Government Spends $1.4 Billion On Such Questions As Whether Remote Prayer Can Heal AIDS, Jonathan Turley, “The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the federal government has spent almost a billion and a half dollars to explore politically popular but scientifically dubious claims such as $666,000 to determine if distant prayer
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Another fine read from Robert Reich
Why the Republican Crackup is Bad For America “Two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican crackup threatens the future of the Grand Old Party more profoundly than at any time since the GOP’s eclipse in 1932. That’s bad for America. “…The underlying conflict lies deep into the nature and
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Never in Canada, right?
Abramoff Regrets Paying Writers For “Placed” Columns, by Joe Strupp, Media Matters, Dec. 8, 2011 “…During a recent interview with Media Matters while promoting his new book, Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist (WND Books 2011), Abramoff said in the past he would find
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Culture Shock
Culture Shock by John Korn He’s sitting in his armchair with his solar powered light He’s sitting in the desert so the bulb keeps burning bright He’s sitting in his armchair and his standard lamp is on The vultures are approaching for the genius has gone The cactuses just
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: More Enbridge mischief exposed
From: guujaaw [mailto:guujaaw@haidanation.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:46 PM Subject: Enbridge December 20, 2011 Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel 444 7th Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta T2P 0X8 Attention: Secretary to the Joint Review Panel Re: statement contained in Volume 5A: Aboriginal Engagement, Appendix D: National and Regional
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Lowe’s standards wrong for B.C.
Lowe’s pulls TV ads – and gives a Christmas gift to Target et al, Wajahat Ali, The Guardian: “The decision by Lowe’s, behemoth chain of retail home improvement and appliance stores, to pull its advertising from TLC’s reality TV show “All-American Muslim,” ceded to the bigotry, fear-mongering and paranoia of
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Would-be skippers on the Ship of Fools
The day before making her official presidential campaign announcement, in Waterloo, Iowa, Michele Bachmann, who was born and grew up in Waterloo before moving to Minnesota, told Fox News, “John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.” However, the John Wayne with roots
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: A wonderful life – Replay from Dec. 2009
Arianna Huffington: At a recent dinner, a group of us began talking about the huge chasm between the record profits of Wall Street banks and America’s struggling Main Street banks and started discussing what concrete steps individuals could take to help create a better financial system. Eventually, an idea took
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Jeremy Hardy’s take on Christmas
From The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4, Dec. 23, 2011
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: America’s turmoil taking it toward disaster
At Truthdig, Joe Conason peels recent layers of “respectability” that hide a reprehensible man who happens to be frontrunner in Iowa presidential caucuses. The Bigots and Billionaires in Ron Paul’s Orbit. “For many years, Paul was merely an outlying crank in the ranks of the Republican Party—a “libertarian” who courted
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Better served by bird brains?
Our friends at the Blog Borg Collective noticed The Province displaying either low-class ignorant journalism or sophisticated and subtle humour. Apparently the newspaper was uncertain if the current session of the Legislature began with a “thrown speech” or a “throne speech.” Blogger North Van’s Grumps also tweaks governments for policy
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Bad Santa
From Reuters Editor’s Choice
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Wish I could write like that department
Roger Ebert, reviewing The Artist, a film by Michel Hazanavicius: “At a sneak preview screening here, a few audience members actually walked out, saying they didn’t like silent films. I was reminded of the time a reader called me to ask about an Ingmar Bergman film. “I think it’s the
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Few shadows cast in North America
A Moral Giant among Pygmies, By Erich Follath, Spiegel Online International “Since last Sunday, the world has been mourning the death of Vaclav Havel. The Czech leader led a rollercoaster life that saw him go from prison cells to palaces, from poetry to politics. In this personal remembrance from a
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