Good news
People using the Internet are familiar with scam, spam and phishing. For me, it seems to have accelerated in the last 2 weeks. Apparently, I’m a rich, respected person, even…
Norman Farrell
Citizens, wake up please
I mentioned in a comment on another article that I’ve heard reports from people doing business with the province who say they are required to kick-back part of what they…
Oppal inquiry: costly and unaccountable
To June 2012, Britain’s Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press had cost $6.2 million CAN. In a commission British citizens thought was a never-ending one,…
Message to Christy Clark
Anita Roddick, businesswoman, activist and founder of The Body Shop, said that when leaders are not ethically sound, innovation coming from them, “Is only innovation on puffery.” Puffery, for people…
Enbridge: into the truth machine
In an extended campaign, advertising promoting the Enbridge pipeline has become incessant noise. One problem with this particular ballyhoo is that its words are not believable. Listeners don’t need sophisticated…
After million spent on advertising
Today’s report from Statistics Canada: “In British Columbia, employment was little changed in December and the unemployment rate declined 0.3 percentage points to 6.5%. Compared with 12 months earlier, employment…
Hard for First Nations to get out the real story
Jon McComb, doing the morning show on CKNW today, had this to say about Attawapiskat: “The housing crisis that has plagued her remote reserve of about 1,900 people has been…
Bloggers can change the political landscape
Reader G. Barry Stewart said this today in comments on ‘A road to inevitable unrest’: “I had a thought today. (Pretty amazing, huh?) “As a New Year’s resolution, I am…
Another corporate charity misleads
Galen Weston speaking for President’s Choice Children’s Charity states in TV commercials running currently: “Please, make a donation at pc.ca/charity. 100% of it goes to helping children” We’re supposed to…
What next at Port Mann?
It’s time for the Liberal government to explain what might happen next. The Port Mann bridge and highway project cost $3.3 billion but we’ve seen that provided no protection from…
Makes me go hmmm
The Millau Bridge, crossing the River Tarn in southern France, is the highest road bridge in the world. It is almost certainly, the most beautiful, stunning from every angle. The…
No celebration of contract to foreign ship builder
Do you use electricity, live in a space that attracts property tax, purchase motor fuel or pay fees to park your chariot or ride transit after after actually paying a…
Where does the money go?
Two years ago, Attorney General Mike de Jong picked his predecessor to lead the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry. Oppal was a safe choice politically, which is the reason BC…
Cronies, henchmen and the future
It’s 21 weeks before the BC provincial election and the government’s hired guns are working overtime, adding to the pile of IOU’s Liberals expect to settle by further payments of…
Guest post from Conservative house leader
Peter Van Loan published this item when he was an opposition member during the time Paul Martin was Prime Minister of Canada’s Liberal government. Van Loan’s subsequent behaviour, and that…
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–of cabbages–and kings
A paper produced for the Business Council of British Columbia in 2010 stated: “Since 2001, British Columbia’s natural gas sector has experienced nothing short of phenomenal growth…” Mineral production in…
Peace region changes
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A society doomed by greed
Is the future healthy when one company’s CEO draws a larger salary between breakfast and lunch, on one day, than a loyal 20 year employee earns in a year? Well,…
Nothing can go wrong, nerthkt can go rong…
One of Murphy’s Laws: “If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly…
Ottawa’s habitual condescension
A study conducted by UBC Fisheries Centre, funded by World Wildlife Fund Canada, notes in the summary abstract, “If are accounted for, all of the projected economic gains from the…