Wilderness destruction, only to enrich a few
Narrows Inlet by Duane Burnett: An almost pristine silent majestic oasis where the west coast rain forest mountains plunged straight into the fjord carved out by the last ice age,…
Norman Farrell
Financial fraud at BC Hydro?
What is a deferred expense? The term “deferred expense” is used to describe a payment that has been made, but will not be reported as an expense until a future…
Trusted editorial content may not be trusted
Postmedia is a company in trouble. It cannot sustain crippling debt to American debt holders with revenues from traditional advertising, circulation and digital paywalls. One of its responses is Postmedia…
The high life
The posh New York real estate linked to a US investigation of Malaysia’s prime minister, BC Liberal’s new LNG business partner. Malaysia’s prime minister must be feeling the heat. Accused…
Liberal return of 0.005% (or less) on $17 million (or more)
In April 2015, MLA Clair Trevena spoke in the Legislature during estimates of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure: We had a refit which began just five years ago and…
Beautiful British Columbia
We’re travelling again this week, back to Vancouver Island and Alert Bay on Cormorant Island with a few more grandchildren. We took a trip on a sailing ship…with Seasmoke Whale…
Restraint not designed for les grand fromages
In Thursday’s CFAX session, I talked with Ian Jessop about British Columbia’s pension fund management agency. bcIMC has had attention here before and the graphs below represent information from the…
Farrell with Jessop, CFAX1070 August 13, 2015
The audio file below is a recording of my time with Ian Jessop August 13. We talk about bcIMC, provincial debt and other matters. Your browser does not support this…
Bloggers miss you Bill Good
It’s now a year since Bill Good departed from his morning place at CKNW. His absence has been bad news for scribblers in the nether regions of the internet since…
News not fit to print
A Wall Street Journal story, repeated by The Australian and Financial News, other Rupert Murdoch News Corp properties, is apparently not worthy of coverage by Canadian media. I found no…
They are our friends, neighbours and family members
Reading of another tragic Fentanyl death — this time Jack Bodie, a Burnaby youth on the cusp of adulthood — I began to think it is time for each of…
Let’s not forget, they tried to steal democracy
You can support ‘Election Day in Canada – The Rise of Voter Suppression’ with a contribution to documentary filmmaker Peter Smoczynski.
Lumber and log exports, LNG and pay-to-play
The audio file below is a recording of my time with Ian Jessop July 29. We talk about lumber and log exports, LNG and political contributions to BC Liberals by…
Avoidance / Evasion: often a fine line
The price isn’t right, Corporate profit-shifting has become big business, The Economist: DURING THE TAX-EVASION trial of Leona Helmsley, a flamboyant hotelier, a former housekeeper testified that she heard her…
Huge cost, high risk, low government revenue, few permanent jobs, better choices
LNG and Employment in BC, Marc Lee, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Juy 28, 2015: This brief examines the BC government’s claim that 100,000 jobs will be created from liquefied…
BC lumber exports drop $46 billion over 9 years
These graphs are drawn from softwood lumber exports data published by BC Stats. My aim is to compare results in recent years to those from the desperate nineties when wild-eyed…
Log exports update
Once again, we review log export reports from BC Stats. However, instead of repeating 163,452 data points from January 1988 to May 2015, I aim to demonstrate trends that allow…
Patronage, corruption and cronyism
July’s sale of BC Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights realized little more than a million dollars, bringing the seven month total in 2015 to $8 million. In the year before…
The "creeping cancer" …
A reader’s response to the preceding article is featured here: It’s time to put the fear of consequence back in governance. Since it is obvious that the current checks and…
Ministerial responsibility dictates immediate resignation
A trial that began April 8, 2013 – seven months after appointment of Minister of Children and Family Development Stephanie Cadieux – concluded this week when Justice Paul Walker released…