Private 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…
BC 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…
Anonymous 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…
More 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…
The 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…
We 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…
Unless 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,…
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…
DuPont'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…
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…
British Defence Minister Liam Fox is proud of U.K. arms traders. He welcomed dealers and customers from around the world to the 2011 Defence and Security Equipment (DSEi) arms fair…
A source in Victoria leaked information to me explaining why Harry Bloy wants to redirect government spending away from small scale projects like the Richmond Recycling Depot. Bloy thinks that…
ProPublica, Science Lags As Health Problems Emerge Near Gas Fields, September 16 By Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz Wallace-Babb was so sick she could barely move. She vomited uncontrollably and…
People with disabilities in a Ridge Meadows supported work program will be out of work if the province withdraws support after 20 years. A September 10 report in the Maple…
When taking aim at individuals on this blog, I try to avoid false assertions. Readers may argue with my analyses and opinions but I intend those to be based on…
Mark Steel Lectures at BBC Open2.net
Ian Reid is back at his computer station this week and that is good news for blog readers. He wrote a piece at The Real Story last October that is…
In another liberal surge of empathy, Sun pundit Vaughn Palmer described the "post-HST fiscal triple whammy" faced by "action man" Kevin Falcon. He described the aggravation of replacing HST with…
The Terrorism Issue That Wasn’t Discussed by Gareth Porter, CommonDreams.org In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by…
High-rise tank is new solution in farming fish, by Arthur Max, Associated Press, from Seattle PI KAMPERLAND, Netherlands (AP) — Adri Bout trawled Dutch waters for 25 years until he…
