“Don’t worry, be happy” is the refuge of the deceived and the oblivious, the
attitude that people assume when they fail to recognize the reality of their
situation.
“Trust us,” says our federal government. “We are planning the fut…
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The Common Sense Canadian home page: Farmed Salmon Confidential (Part 1): ISA and the Cohen Commission
Part 1 of a 2-part series – watch for Part 2 this ThursdayThis past year, the Norwegian-controlled salmon farming industry spent $1.5 million on a glitzy advertising campaign in BC, which essentially denied the impacts of open net cage salmon farms on …
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Campbell/Clark Government Goes After Wolves
The Campbell/Clark government has
done it again. Now wolves will be wiped out in BC because, it’s alleged
(by ranchers), that their cattle are being slaughtered by wolves. Ranchers are
friends of the government while wolves are not. The constituenci…
The Common Sense Canadian home page: What "Fracking" is About
Until a couple of months ago I had never heard of “fracking”.
I now understand why. And I should have known.
Governments, by long standing habit, don’t like smarty pants
environmentalists to learn what the hell is going on and thus be able
to alert…
The Common Sense Canadian home page: Reflections on BC Day
It’s August 1 – British Columbia Day. This being a relatively new holiday, we have not really come up with a tradition such as we have on Thanksgiving and Christian holy days. One might think of May 24th, the significance of which could not be…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Shades of Green: Parenting in an Uncertain Age
When Elijah was four years old, he wanted to dress as a polar bear for Halloween trick-or-treating so his mother, Sandra, sewed him a costume from an old white bed sheet. As she was making his costume, it occurred to her that global warming may mean th…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Why the BC Liberal Government Doesn’t Value Your Life
There are many instances I’ve come across in the past number of years which suggest to me the Campbell/Clark Government places no real value on the lives of its citizens – this despite Premier Clark’s “families first” motto. That’s a bold claim, I know…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Are They Ganging up on the People and Environment?
Just before I get down to business, I know that all environmentalists will be saddened that a former member of the group, Patrick Moore, allegedly got stiffed by a client for $120,000. I hate to sound like a “Johnny-come-lately” with good advice bu…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Latest DFO Scientist Muzzling Part of Bigger Pattern Ignored by Media
The revelation by the Sun and the Province that a scientist in DFO, Dr. Kristi Miller, has been muzzled by the DFO and the Privy Council (which supports the Prime Minister’s Office) simply underscores how badly they have covered environmental matters…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Shades of Green: Industrialization
Sometimes the magnitude of the environmental challenges facing us today seems overwhelming. So we traditionally examine the larger problem in fragmented details. We isolate one part of a huge complexity of issues and consider, for example, the decline …
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Campbell/Clark Libs Have No Credibility – HST Promises Meaningless
I commented here last week upon Premier Clark’s silence on all the great issues she faces and questioned what her policies will be. I expect no answer because she wants to put all Gordon Campbell did into the darkest corner of the cupboard. The strat…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Oceans in Peril: Radical Action Needed to Avert 90% Sepcies Extinction
The oceans of Planet Earth currently contain about a quarter million species of marine organisms, which together constitute the Marine Food Pyramid and the Marine Food Web. If we do not change our ways, radically and fundamentally, immediately or…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Oceans in Peril: Radical Action Needed to Avert 90% Species Extinction
The oceans of Planet Earth currently contain about a quarter million species of marine organisms, which together constitute the Marine Food Pyramid and the Marine Food Web. If we do not change our ways, radically and fundamentally, immediately or…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: A Thoroughly Uncivilized Highway: Paving Ancient Burial Sites Just one of SFPR’s Many Insults
An aboriginal-led lawsuit is the latest potential roadblock for the highly controversial South Fraser Perimeter Road – an 80 km four-lane truck highway from Deltaport to Surrey in the early stages of construction. Lawyer Jay Straith is representing Tsa…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Christy Clark’s Silence on the Big Questions
I worry a lot when politicians are talking – usually double or even triple talk. Did I do that when I was in government?…Well it takes one to know one. I worry even more when they say nothing, something that Premier Christy Clark finds impossi…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Mainstream Media Blind to Real Environmental Issues
Why is it that the mainstream media ignore the down and dirty part of the environment? Yes, they do stuff on global warming and it’s good that they do but when it comes to local issues, apart from where Vancouver sends its garbage, they’re now…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Shades of Green: ISA – A Ticking Time Bomb
The Infectious Salmon Anemia virus (ISAv) is a ticking time bomb that could explode under BC’s salmon farming industry and their open net-pens. If this industry has imported such a disease into the ecology of the Pacific Northwest via infected Atlantic…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Video: Musgamagw Unite in Response to Marine Harvest Breach
It’s the latest chapter in a long and increasingly heated battle between BC’s coastal First Nations and the Norwegian salmon farmers that operate in their waters. The Musgamagw-Tsawataineuk peoples of the Broughton Archipelago recently gathered in the …
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Salmon Farm Apologist’s "Shoddy Science" Outed by DFO Colleague’s Memo
“Blockbuster” hardly describes an internal DFO memo unearthed by Don Staniford, the doughty fighter against Atlantic Salmon fish farmers, which battle has included a lawsuit by the shameless bastards.The 2003 memo (download here) – recently made publ…
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