Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger It is disconcerting to see so many of our politicians embrace an escalating level of disrespect and even contempt for those of us that they are elected and entrusted to represent. We see it from the PM Steve Harper and many of the Provincial Governments and
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Cowichan Conversations: Two Veteran Environmental Warriors Rafe Mair & Economist Erik Anderson on the Site C Damn
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Our friend and fellow blogger Rafe Mair delves into today’s energy issues with Economist Erik Anderson. Damien Gillis has put this video together with two important environmental warriors. Well worth a look. Video: Rafe Mair and Economist Erik Andersen, Pt. 2 – LNG, Site C
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: A number of people should go to jail for what has been done to BC Hyrdo!
Good Morning, Damien Gillis from the Commonsense Canadian produced and has made available this excellent interview that is shocking to say the least. In it Rafe questions economist Erik Anderson about the real story of what is happening and what has happened to BC Hydro and why. Part 1 of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: How Much They Worry About First Nation’s Rights, The Environment, And Stuff In Calgary
CALGARY – A public hearing on a proposal to build a pipeline to ship oilsands bitumen from Alberta to the British Columbia coast has been cancelled in Calgary due to a lack of interest.Kudos to Christy Clark, no matter how late she is to the game or how equivocal her position. I
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Video Enbridge (and Postmedia) wants hidden
Enbridge is presently engaged in an expensive advertising campaign. It serves two purposes. One aims at convincing Canadians that what they do is benign and beneficial. The other is to provide tangible rewards to the corporate media that repeatedly echoes the same message through content, either by supportive coverage or
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Rafe Mair raises his wise voice
No Souls but Lots of Cash, Rafe Mair, The Tyee, June 25, 2012 – BC’s crucial environmental battles pit citizens against politicians’ love of corporate money. “Corporations have a legal body but no conscience or soul. They look out for themselves alone and don’t give a rat’s posterior for anything
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Toothless media accommodates political fraud
In 2006, Rafe Mair wrote News Media, Defanged for The Tyee. It included the headline: “Politicians, not too long ago, feared the press.” Of course misreants particularly feared Rafe Mair during his post-politician days. Rafe had been a successful lawyer and a capable cabinet minister in Bill Bennett’s coalition and
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: I-RO-NY [ ahy-ruh-nee ]
The REPLAY below from September 2010 seems particularly relevant after Jonathan Fowlie exposed the story of HST pamphlets going from printer to shredder by the truckload. The original waste is bad. Worse is demonstration that unprincipled politicians will throw good money after bad if there is a chance to hide
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Uncomfortable parallels
While a mere teenager when Richard Nixon was elected to a second term, Stephen Harper had found a mentor. A few decades later, empowered by a majority in parliament, the now Canadian Prime Minister is putting early inspirations into action. Nixon spent his early years working as an ardent anti-communist
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Another Shoe Drops In Northern Gateway Debate
Following Bob Rae’s somewhat watered down but nevertheless not bad interjection yesterday, the NDP brings a bit more rhetorical muscle: OTTAWA — If the independent review panel studying Enbridge’s Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline proposal gives its OK to the project, the interim leader of the federal NDP says that still wouldn’t
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Stephen Maher reminds us that the Harper government now lecturing us about the need to attack social programs because of a federal deficit is the same incompetent group that caused the deficit in the first place through reckless tax slashing and vote-buying
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Rafe Mair On The Northern Gateway Pipeline
I oppose violence with every remaining sinew in my body but I’m saying to Harper and Oliver that violence is what their policies will bring. I haven’t had a fight since about Grade VII and I lost that one but I can tell you that I’m prepared to stand in
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Snoozing, slothful syndicate of political poodles…
At the Rafe Mair birthday celebration last week, we got to hear Rafe tell an anecdote about writing for Ryerson School of Journalism a piece that celebrated free speech, one Ryerson refused to publish. I suspect Rafe got more than a few requests to write the story for the website
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Best and worst of CKNW
I am quick to criticize CKNW, mostly because I remember the years it did excellent work. Its newsroom, when run by Warren Barker, was the single quickest and best source for local news. Reporters like George Garrett were our trusted friends. The morning news talk show under matchless hosts Jack
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