BC`s unethical investments not smoking hot
BC Investment Management Corporation may come to regret its rush to invest in big tobacco firms. After adding shares in eight of nine tobacco stocks in fiscal 2012, bcIMC had…
Norman Farrell
Taxpayers on hook for Liberal "campain" funding
BC Liberals and friends had better start worrying because Vaughn Palmer may be taking off gloves and blindfold. The pundit who has all the tools, and a toolbox, laid implements…
Campbell’s wasted weekend with willy-wagglers – updated
One-percenters making changes. Anonymous reader provides interesting links in the comment section after a shuffling of deck chairs among Bilder-burglars. It's also worth bringing to the top because Paul Fraser…
Les democracy
"The only good farmland is former farmland" - J. Les John Les made an appearance with Sean Leslie on Liberal house radio Saturday and explained that party leadership had to…
Clear messaging
As Enbridge explains, the Mokena Terminal had a "Line Release." Nov 23 (Reuters) - About 900 barrels of crude oil leaked from an Enbridge Inc pipeline near Chicago late on…
A government friendly to some businesses
H/T: R.S.
"All bets are off"… or not
It's been a while since I complained about CBC pundit Stephen Smart but his 5pm news report today was egregious. He suggested the current Angus Reid poll indicates an important…
Coastal safety
Second B.C. shipping incident in two days, Vancouver Sun, Nov. 23/12 "Dan Bate, spokesman for the Canadian Coast Guard, said Friday that the deep-sea cargo ship, Tern Arrow, lost engine…
Trends
A Failed Experiment, Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, Nov 21/12 "Since the 1950s, the top federal income tax rate has fallen from 90 percent or more to 35 percent.…
If BC Liberals lied before, can we believe them now?
In July 2009, Tom Fletcher of Black Press wrote about the HST announcement, "Premier Gordon Campbell and Finance Minister Colin Hansen announced the change in Vancouver Thursday, presenting it as…
To understand the RCMP: Re-sergeance.net
Out of the Cake: A response to the Commissioner, Dr. Mike Webster, R. Psych. Let me begin by quoting David A. Brown, QC Chair of the Task Force on Governance…
Demand deficit
Fiscal Cliff Letter: Small Business Owners Urge End Of Bush Tax Cuts, Zach Carter, Huffington Post "As businesses owners, none of us hire more employees simply because someone gives us…
Propagandists in the service of the powerful
For more than half a century, the Soviet Union's news agencies were universally recognized as untrustworthy. Strict political controls ensured that content served interests of the nation's autocrats. In the…
The 47% watch
Willard Mitt Romney: "...there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to…
Desperation on their own sinking ship
From Laila Yuile's blog, No Strings Attached: Breaking news – Abbotsford South BC Liberal Riding Association Directors and President resign, citing ” Unfair, not democratic ” election of candidate Darryl…
The real Welfare Queen
Walmart: America's real 'Welfare Queen', Paddy Ryan, Daily Kos, October 2012 " As many as 80 percent of workers in Wal-Mart stores use food stamps."Inequality, exhibit A: Walmart and the…
Enjoying our factory foods
Fruit fiction: Is it blueberry or blue dye? Greenerchoices.org "A hot trend in food labeling these days is labels that boast 'blueberries' and feature images of the antioxidant-rich superfruit, but…
No sense of decency
In Liberals' memo shows party's delusion, Keith Baldrey takes aim at the government crowd and fires a cruise missile through the target. Actions of these minor league partisans suggest Joseph…
Talking real money
One indisputable dunce pursuing a nomination for the coming provincial election praised the B.C. Liberal government for its "prudent fiscal management." Obviously, that person pays no attention to reality. Oxford…
There’s fish in the lake
Two unions are in court to overturn Temporary Foreign Worker Program permits that allow 200 Chinese coal miners to work in northern BC. The labour organizations claim the permits were…