Sean Holman asks a great question but unfortunately, we all know the answer:
Does Christy Clark want to put British Columbia families first or businesses?
Read the entire article HERE.
Continue readingSean Holman asks a great question but unfortunately, we all know the answer:
Does Christy Clark want to put British Columbia families first or businesses?
Read the entire article HERE.
Continue readingFrom Sister Sage’s Musings
“Local right-wing gadfly and embarrassment to the city, Vancouver’s Paris Hilton, Leah Costello, is hosting war criminal Dick Cheney at her very elite, very right wing Bon Mot book club. It is appropriate however that a …
Continue readingSome believe that businesses should pay no taxes and HST serves part of that purpose. A remaining aim of business is to pay no income tax but, because ruling parties find that politically difficult, the objective is pursued surreptitiously. It is done …
Continue readingAn apothegm repeated often in programs treating alcohol abuse:
“One drink is too many and one thousand is not enough.”
The statement also applies to business leaders and their lobbyists. No matter the subsidies and tax relief gained and the poli…
Humanists associate Dick Cheney with war crimes but his legacy of malevolence is broader. In 2005, the U.S. Congress passed legislation exempting hydraulic fracturing from oversight under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The “Halliburton Loophole” was in…
Continue reading Coup: A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act; a triumph. By extension, a takeover of one group by another.
Guardian columnist George Monbiot provides his view of a coup against democracy in How the Billionaires Broke the System. The campaign, a…
Salt Spring Forum and Salt Spring Island Conservancy hosted noted western Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk Wednesday to hear details of his new book, Empire of the Beetle. It is an examination of “how human folly and a tiny bug are killing N…
Continue readingBefore joining the Vancouver Sun, Fazil Mihlar was Senior Policy Analyst at The Fraser Institute. In his years with the newspaper’s editorial board, Mihlar has continued to serve philosophical goals of the reactionary foundations that finance his for…
Continue readingThe Fall of the United States, CommonDreams.org, John Atcheson
“Welcome to the late great United States – a country in economic and moral free fall. A country in thrall to a cult of greed, selfishness, and ignorance.
“A country that is trying …
Continue readingPremier Clark is barnstorming around the province celebrating jobs week. Not wanting to incur more debt and commit new spending, she intends to repurpose planned expenditures. Of course, she also repeats the standard refrain about deregulation:
“G…
Continue readingPrivate business promoters aim to eliminate public enterprises through privatization, contracting out and outsourcing. They promote the myth that delivery of services by private, often multinational, companies gains cost and service efficiencies. …
Continue readingBC Government Online Newsroom, British Columbia to develop liquefied natural gas industry, Sep 19, 2011:
“Premier Christy Clark today announced British Columbia will take four key steps to create a prosperous liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry and j…
Continue readingAnonymous said…
Uhmm, has your blog been hacked? Where did your header photo go? If this is a new “design” please go back to your old header/masthead.
This one is dreary and meaningless. Who needs more old white men in suits in our faces??? I’m in…
Continue readingMore worthwhile reading today at The Tyee, from investigative reporter Andrew MacLeod, a fine journalist who does not work in an echo chamber rewriting background papers issued by flacks working for government or industry.
“In 2007, after British Co…
Continue readingThe fatally flawed Order of British Columbia must be scrapped. Rushing to aggrandize themselves and their own financial backers, BC Liberals destroyed the award’s intended essence. It was supposed to recognize:
“those persons who have served…
Continue readingWe commonly hear claims that Canadian healthcare is not sustainable. Most of these statements originate with corporate PR institutes whose objective is to create business opportunities for private clients. The aim is not to preserve, protect and impr…
Continue readingUnless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the
price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
(Gifford Pinchot, first Chief of U.S. Forest Service)
In 2008, the energy-giant Enbridg…
Hi Friends,
I just registered to make an oral submission to the National Energy Board panel reviewing the Enbridge Northern Gateway project. I encourage you to do the same.
Enbridge plans to bring an oil pipeline and supertankers to our salmon rivers…
Continue readingDuPont’s Herbicide Goes Rogue, Jim Hightower, OtherWords.org
In the corporate world’s tortured language, workers are no longer fired. They just experience an “employment adjustment.” But the most twisted euphemism I’ve heard in a long time comes from D…
During the lead-up to the HST referendum, business advocate Fraser Institute complained,
“…opponents of the harmonized tax have filled newspapers, broadcast media, and the blogosphere with inaccurate – and often outrageous – claims about the tax …