A million here, a million there…
…pretty soon you’re talking real money. North Van’s Grumps at Blog Borg Collective scours provincial files, searching for meaningful data chunks. Usually, these are indicators of underlying stories that are…
…pretty soon you’re talking real money. North Van’s Grumps at Blog Borg Collective scours provincial files, searching for meaningful data chunks. Usually, these are indicators of underlying stories that are…
Eight months ago, Judith Lavoie wrote at DesmogCanada about Jumbo Glacier: Stuck in the ground, halfway down the valley trail leading into the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort, is a stick,…
The audio file below is a recording of my time with Ian Jessop June 17. We talk about LNG and resource taxation, inter-provincial cooperation on resource matters and oil spill…
SLOW FISH – KNOW YOUR FISHERMAN from Kevin Kossowan on Vimeo.
A new approach: “We can work together. We can disagree without being disagreeable. Today, our political and party system cries out for renewal. We can listen to each other and…
The eastern media had much to say recently about conflicted journalists. On the west coast, even CKNW’s Sean Leslie, a newsman who knows the subject, weighed in on Even Solomon’s…
Adrian Raeside, one British Columbia’s fine editorial cartoonists, probably says more in one panel about the state of LNG negotiations that my words could ever achieve. A collection of Adrian…
Merriam-Webster:“Socialism: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government” For years, leaders of the BC Business Party (AKA Social Credit or…
The trailer for Lisa Jackson‘s fine documentary: How a People Live, the story of the Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw Nations of BC. The full 45 minute documentary is available through the CBC Player.…
Following is one of the first articles published at this blog. From April 2009, it is updated today with information about an upcoming and unconventional addiction healing event involving Dr.…
Much of British Columbia’s recent political history has been written by a Liars Club sponsored by beneficiaries of corrupt public administrations. One fable claims that BC Liberals rescued the provincial…
The current FIFA scandal illustrates a human behaviour that allows criminal behaviour to succeed. By nature, people tend to ignore the misconduct of others if preventing or revealing it extracts…
Hansard, May 28, 2015 The notion of a Debt-free British Columbia — hard to imagine when you’ve seen $135-billion increase in debt and contractual obligations under the B.C. Liberal watch.…
Following arrests of top soccer officials, The Guardian called Wednesday the “ugliest day in the history of the beautiful game.” However, at this stage, the criminal charges involve only the…
The audio file below is a recording of my time with Ian Jessop May 26. We talk about credit rating agencies, provincial debt, contractual obligations, resource taxation and transit funding…
The campaign is unfair, will the result be a fraud? A year ago, the 2013 annual report and audited financial statements were in public hands. The independent auditor’s report was…
First published in December, 2009 History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.– Edward Gibbon, English historian of Rome (1737 – 1794)…
First published January 7, 2011: A reader pointed us to a recent BBC News report about a British politician convicted of financial fraud. Please compare this legal action to outrageous…
A thoughtful message to new graduates: the 2012 Wellesley High School graduation speech delivered by David McCullough, Jr., son of the famous American writer, historian and broadcaster.
Canadian Press, April 7, 2013: Clark told a Vancouver Island economic summit her government’s highly touted September 2011 jobs plan — with its focus on increased trade with China and…