Schools help fund Encana’s foreign investments
News Item, May 2011 VANCOUVER - Encana and the British Columbia government’s Pacific Carbon Trust have a new deal by which the Trust is purchasing 84,000 tonnes of carbon offsets…
Norman Farrell
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…
‘Uncontrollable’ natural disaster inevitable
Oil Exploration Under Arctic Ice Could Cause 'Uncontrollable' Natural Disaster by Michael McCarthy Published on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 by the Independent/UK "Any serious oil spill in the ice of…
Horgan speaks on OBC
The Canadian Press Date: Tuesday Sep. 6, 2011 8:06 PM ET VICTORIA — The New Democrat Opposition in B.C. says the rules may not have been followed when former Liberal…
Intermittent economic storms
Speaking with his disingenuousness dial set to maximum, Education Minister George Abbott talks as if the provincial government is merely an interested observer to the teachers' labour negotiations, "We do…
A non-partisan citizen speaks a powerful message
Motorcycleguy, a regular reader here, left a comment at The Vancouver Observer in response to Tzeporah Berman's defence of her support for the industry of power producers aiming to interfere…
A crime family depends on its enablers – rerun
I quoted from a Lewis Carroll poem The Walrus and the Carpenter in a comment thread at the Vancouver Observer. My obvious suggestion was that Tzeporah Berman had been like…
Alexandra Morton reports an "Unwanted Trespass"
There seems to be no end to small details that paint a very disturbing picture in the coastal salmon farming industry. Why do we have to rely on private citizens…
A sad, embarrassing moment that cheapens an honour
Kudos to the Times Colonist editorialists for an honest examination of the Ordure of British Columbia fiasco: "...Campbell’s honour is premature for another reason — quite simply, it breaks the…
A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, along the briny beach
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have…
An ebbing tide may beach many yachts
In the preceding article, I quote Robert Reich from the New York Times. The words are worth repeating for emphasis because Reich's points are so little understood but so important…
Labour Day – Canadian heritage moment – Rerun
First published here in 2009 I was flipping the radio dial on Labour Day and noticed that CKNW's Christy Clark featured a guest who seemed a strange choice. It was…
Smile and learn
Strange Animal with Mike O'Brien - A short but wonderful CBC radio series
Global TV’s strange news priorities
It was a busy news day Sunday so British Columbia's self described source for news, weather, traffic, events and features did not have time to report on the rising tide…
Don’t judge the world while standing on your head
The Order of BC awards were announced after noon on Friday preceding summer's last long weekend, best day of all for taking out political trash. Apparently, Christy Clark's Government was…
Crimes in progress (another 2010 article brought forward)
News item: British Columbia Liberals announce the new Clean Energy Act sets the foundation for a new future of electricity self-sufficiency. Definition: Self-sufficiency: The ability to satisfy one’s basic needs…
Campbell’s BC Liberals didn’t abandon principles, they never had any
Thomas Paine, a great radical of the 18th-century, inspired both the American and French revolutions and is widely regarded as "possibly the most influential writer in modern human history." He…
Social media can expose the latest BC Liberal outrage
Readers, spread the links to this blog and the many others that provide information the mainstream media ignores. The Order of British Columbia to Campbell, Dobell, Emerson and Aquilini is…
Honours for sale in British Columbia?
= (?) The above is from a search of the FRPCS site of Elections BC done September 3, 2011. Searching on the name 'Aquilini' returns a listing of donations with…