Tax issue the Harper Gov’t prefers not to address
Read Committee studying offshore tax evasion will not question revenue minister at The Globe and Mail. This story comes from the USA but Canadian companies employ similar schemes of tax…
Norman Farrell
One value Premier failed to learn: truthfulness
In Sunday’s thirty minute TV commercial, Christy Clark said that leadership involves, “holding true to the values you were raised with…” If I were one of the people that parented…
One "news reporter" is feeling sad
“The Liberals could come out with an announcement heralding the sky for being blue and a good portion of the electorate would respond by criticizing them for ignoring the clouds.”…
More "CRAP!" from the blogosphere
Contrary to the claims of retired newsguy Bill Good, blogs are not invariable distributors of CRAP! Instead, the good ones are sources of information and commentary that Bill Good and…
16 yr-old talked to NEB, before new regulations
I first published a link to this video February 2 and it has been viewed by thousands of Northern Insight readers. Additionally, most major Canadian news operations paid close attention…
No free lunches… ever
Update April 9: I heard that CKNW’s Bill Good responded on his April 5 morning show to selected critics, people he declined to identify other than through reference to hated…
Royal Bank of Canada – exporter of jobs
CEO Gordon Nixon, 12.6 million dollar man The Royal Bank of Canada (aka RBC) is responding to public complaints that spread rapidly following reports the bank will be terminating Canadian…
Boycott of RBC – make this a movement
RBC replaces Canadian staff with foreign workers, CBC, April 6, 2013 “Dozens of employees at Canada’s largest bank are losing their jobs to temporary foreign workers, who are in Canada…
Apply to express an opinion: who runs this place anyway?
Financial manipulators and industrialists have control and they aim to set Canada’s economic course without input from Canadians. They bought the license from Stephen Harper. Evidence is provided by Gloria…
Only when their lips move
On February 15, Times of India Film Awards flack Laura Ballance said, “About 35,000 tickets for the April 6 awards ceremony at B.C. Place went up for grabs Friday morning…
As much as anyone, Liberals hurt themselves
“A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.” ― Judith McNaught Underwear mfg is prime…
Pundit, partisan, or?
A garrulous right-winger, Alise Mills has appeared on CKNW, CTV, Sun News Network and CBC. Because she is pervasive, it’s worth learning a little about her. In the preceding article,…
Still ROTFL
From January 30, updated with an audio clip from The Bill Good Show on CKNW. Monday, in Something Big, Out of Something Small…, Alex Tsakumis mentioned a fact obvious to…
Dangerous charity caught in Harper Government web
Environmental charities ‘laundering’ foreign funds, Kent says, CBC News, May 1, 2012 Some charitable environmental groups in Canada are “laundering” funds from offshore donors to obstruct Canada’s environmental assessment process,…
"Humans have never dealt with nature’s complexity…"
Allan Savory, on learning together: “We have learning sites, where the boundaries are soft psychologically. We’re all learning together because we don’t have answers. We just have a way forward…
Suspended coffees
From the forum at Urban Diner, a Vancouver-based online magazine for food and restaurant lovers around British Columbia. By Publisher Paul Kamon: “We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend…
BC Auditor General site down Mar 29-30
Since the website of the British Columbia Auditor General is inaccessible early morning March 30, and was down late March 29, I provide this access to recent reports from the…
Pacific Carbon Trust officials must resign
Finance Minister Mike de Jong must demand resignations of the senior executives and directors of Pacific Carbon Trust. They are officials of a publicly owned enterprise but instead dedicated their…
"Planning is not an option or a luxury"
A release from the Representative for Children and Youth, March 26, 2013 The audit found scattered and ineffective documentation of planning for these vulnerable children and youth, as well as…
Income disparity grows
Incomes of bottom 90 percent grew $59 in 40 years, Natasha Lennard, Salon.com “Pulitzer Prize-winner David Cay Johnston has highlighted yet more statistics that illuminate the spike in income inequality…