Tuesday’s vote provides a rare opportunity for citizens to choose a course for our province and our children and the children of our children. Do we want this: Or, this:
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Choose the coast you want for British Columbia
Tuesday’s vote provides a rare opportunity for citizens to choose a course for our province and our children and the children of our children. Do we want this: Or, this:
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Hey BC! Here Comes The ParameDIX To The Rescue
John Horgan MLA Juan de Fuca with Rick Atkinson from the Ambulance Paramedics of BC… Emergency ParameDIX Changing Ambulance Service for the Better, One Precious Life at a Time! When there is an emergency call the ParameDix
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Is the government trying to bring back the online spying bill?
This week, comments from Stephen Harper about police powers for investigating online crimes have privacy advocates worried that the government might exploit Canadians’ fears around cyberbullying to reboot its failed online spying program. Using language pulled directly from bill C-30 talking points, Harper noted that law enforcement encounters difficulties because
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Crap That Comes Out of Peter Kent’s Mouth
Harper EnviroShill, Peter Kent, is one of the sleaziest actors in Ottawa. His latest pitch – we have to get out from under the U.S. dilbit discount – i.e. get those pipelines up and running from the B.C. coast – so that the Athabasca oil barons will be able to
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Peter Penashue: Harper’s “strong voice” rarely heard in the House
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: A new analysis by democracy advocacy group, Samara, suggests that the Conservatives’ characterization of Peter Penashue as a “strong voice” for Labrador in the House of Commons is a grotesque political exaggeration. In fact, the Conservatives insulted our collective intelligence when they warned that “if Newfoundland and Labrador want
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe Mair Takes It To The Liberals Over Their Economic Incompetence!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I steal more from the ‘Common Sense Canadian’ than most other sites and am happy to continue my larcenous behaviour in that regard. Rafe was a Social Credit Cabinet Minister of Environment in the Bill Bennett and he knows of what he speaks. Along with Damien Gillis
Continue readingwmtc: barcelona, day three
What a day we’ve had. We had two incredible architecture experiences today, one of them among the most astounding buildings we have ever seen. It was also a long day. We are currently recuperating in our hotel room. Allan’s blisters have blisters. * * * * We took off early
Continue readingBuckdog: Globe & Mail Gives A ‘Right Wing’ Endorsement To BC Liberals With Error Filled Editorial …
The following article was published on The Tyee on May 13, 2013 and is well worth reading: The Globe and Mail published an editorial on Friday evening endorsing Christy Clark and the BC Liberals to form the next government for British Columbia. Adrian Dix and his New Democrats were deemed
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Common law guarantee defences can be ousted by sufficiently clear bank language
Royal Bank of Canada v. Samson Management & Solutions Ltd., 2013 ONCA 313 makes clear that common law guarantee defences can be ousted by sufficiently clear bank language: [61] Parties are entitled to make their own arrangements, and a guarantor’s decision to contract out of the protection provided by the common law or equity
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Dedicated revenues cover most of increase for Ontario’s health care in 2013-14
This year Ontario is adding $1.3 billion to fund health care for 2013-14, but most of that increase will have come from dedicated sources amounting to almost a billion dollars. Net contribution from general taxation will be about $360 million. … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Alexandra Morton: NDP Hold Best Chance for Wild Salmon
Independent biologist Alexandra Morton has been busy during the BC election campaign, traveling the province to raise the issue of protecting wild salmon from fish farms and viruses. Here, as voters prepare to go to the polls, she offers her frank assessment of what is in the best political interests
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Grey and Bruce Counties pocket of available nursing home beds
The right care at the right place at the right time. It’s a reasonable goal for the health system, but frequently Ontarians are faced with difficult decisions because they can only access one or two of those three conditions. Recently we … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How Will Harper Handle Hadfield?
There’s nothing Steve Harper likes better than to bask in the glory of a celebrity. He gets his nose so far up their bums that sometimes you wonder how they’ll ever get away. So, what’s in store for Canada’s latest global phenom, Chris Hadfield? I think Colonel Hadfield presents more
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: America’s First Climate Refugees
The Guardian news outlet is running a series this week on the small Alaskan town of Newtok that is slowly being wiped off the map as the waters rise around it. The Army Corp of Engineers predicts that the highest point in Newtok could be under water by as early
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Business journalists go on the attack; demonize Atlantic seasonal workers
National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Framed in disrespectful language, they’re promoting untested economic ideas that, if adopted, would seriously damage the economy – and the people – of
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Some Monday Photos from the Jardin botanique
The more I think about the plan to charge high fees to visit Montreal’s Jardin botanique, the more annoyed I get. When we first came here eons ago, it was completely free. Then they added charges for the greenhouses. Fees to enter the outside gardens followed, although residents who had
Continue readingVancouver Vaisakhi 2013
The LPCBC team was at the Vancouver Vaisakhi Parade in Vancouver South!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: I admire Tim Hudak
I knew that little headline would get your attention! And it’s true. Being the guy (currently) most likely to become Premier if (theoretically) there is an election, Hudak could have chosen the easy course. He could have chosen discretion over valour. He could have jumped on the popular and populist
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Weather Vane Politics and the Winds of Change in the BC Election
“It doesn’t take a weather vane to see which way the wind is blowing.”
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