1. — Exactly who is the federal government representing as they try to suppress evidence that they are suppressing evidence of the ISA threat to westcoast fisheries? From Tamsyn Burgmann, Canadian Press: “The possibility that a potentially devastating fish virus has migrated into British Columbia salmon is concerning enough to
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Politics, Re-Spun: Is Withholding Sex Now Sex Abuse?
Or, Is Lysistrata A Sex Offender? I attended today, along with Alex, a discussion panel to remember the Montreal Massacre where Marc Lepine murdered fourteen women at the École Polytechnique simply because they were women and he thought that they had prevented him from attending the school. A lot of
Continue readingWe want a Provincial Election! Now!
Dear Christy Clark; The people of BC want an election to be held, as soon as is possible. Your Cabinet is operating without a mandate from the people. The people of BC have no confidence in your ability to govern in our best interest. You have continually fudged budget forecasts
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: "The hypocrisy is quite sickening"
Paraphrasing Benjamin Disraeli’s words to the British Parliament in 1845, “The BC Liberal government is an organized hypocrisy.”I visited the BC Liberal website today and found this homepage. The frame from the lower right corner is extracted. “Our Ship Building Contract” This Liberal government was not so enthused about shipbuilding
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Net-zero mandate, not for all
Net-zero is OK for teachers, regular healthcare providers and the remaining public sector workers but not for important friends who do favours for Premier Photo Op. For example, and this is but one of course, check out Howard Waldner’s tough road. This guy decided that after the position of in-house
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Contributions of two MLAs in BC Legislature
“I think this [Auditor General for Local Government] is a vital step forward for British Columbia, and long overdue, I think it’s going to make a difference, I think it’s going to mean taxpayers money will be spent better and will ensure they get value for every single dollar.” Every
Continue readingCut the Crap Christy!
Our unelected Premier of BC, Christy Clark, can’t figure out why the Occupy Movement insists on persisting in their efforts. From ctvbc yesterday, Government lawyers have already filed an injunction against Occupy Vancouver protesters, who moved Monday from city property onto provincial land – and Premier Christy Clark says demonstrators
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: A simple truth
For British Columbia Liberals, the BC Rail/Basi/Virk story is like a slow growing cancer. Left unresolved, it is metastasizing, nudging the afflicted party toward an inevitable conclusion. I’ve tried to understand why Liberals, or at least ethical members within the party, have not demanded an end to this distress through
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: How about we have strong environmental laws and job creation?
Monday, November 21, 2011 As part of the Premier’s job creation strategy, the BC government has introduced legislation to remove permitting requirements for certain so-called “low-risk” mining operations – notably related to exploration. But the best information is that strong environmental regulations have little or no impact on the available
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Policies are pointless if routinely ignored
BC Liberals paid $6-million in public funds to Dave Basi and Bob Virk as part of enticements that ended the BC Rail political corruption trial. The criminal court action had been embarrassing the government and was about to get worse. Former minister G…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Liberals reward immorality
Without ethical foundations, leadership in government is merely random wandering among infinite possibilities. A whim of yesterday had value then but none today. No one knows what will be expedient tomorrow.
I wrote earlier a belief that Gordon Camp…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Will Hahnless BCF now build major ships here?
British Columbia’s shipbuilding industry is happy today, gearing up to work on an $8-billion piece of the largest marine construction program in Canadian history. The federal government takes pride in what they claim has been a painstakingly fair, non…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: REPLAY: "It’s a tough spot but Premier Clark is thriving, I mean, she seems to really. ."
First published April 3, 2011 but worth another read. Be sure you listen to the audio clip at the end.
CKNW’s Bill Good and producer Jessica Hyatt want you critics of Christy Clark and BC Liberals to be quiet. You are all greedy beggars, demanding se…
Continue readingCleavage-gate: Interview with David Schreck
Several days ago pundit and former NDP MLA David Schreck made an innocuous comment regarding the appearance of an uninvited guest to the British Columbia legislature: The Premiers Cleavage. His tweet set off a firestorm across every media outlet from c…
Continue readingCummins, BC Conservatives wrong on gas tax opposition
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Upstart leader of the BC Conservatives, John Cummins is completely misguided on his and his party’s opposition to the 2 cent per litre gas. I understand that he is looking for a cheap wedge issue to …
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Insatiable appetites
An 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…
Harper Valley: Who Needs Photoshop?
Filed under: Political Humour Tagged: christy clark, east indian, funny, Indian chief, photos, pics, Stephen Harper
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Tossing the myth of impartiality
CKNW’s Bill Good took a little heat this week from callers but did his best to defend Gordon Campbell’s appointment to the OBC. Good’s ire rises quickly if callers slip through the screening and point out puffball treatment of the former Premier, his g…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Politics, Re-Spun on Coop Radio, September 5, 2011
Spending Labour Day with Imtiaz Popat on “The Rational” on Vancouver’s COOP Radio, talking about Christy Clark’s revocation of a pre-2013 election date [coup, not really a premier, perhaps a “notional premier”], the end of the HST, the BCTF negotiations and how the courts noted how the government yanked almost $3 billion from BC’s K-12 […]
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