More Bad Pharma
A few days ago, Patients exposed to harm on a staggering scale provided excerpts from Ben Goldacre’s book Bad Pharma. You can download or listen to a lengthy interview with…
Norman Farrell
Regrets might come later
Chairman Harper and the Chinese Sell-Out, Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee “By Nov. 1 three of China’s national oil companies will have more power to shape Canada’s energy markets as well…
War waged on wilderness
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Trevor Greene stimulates thought
Joe Oliver probably knows nothing about the courage of people like Canadian Forces hero Trevor Greene. The Minister for Oil and Energy Companies was born to a wealthy Montreal family.…
Message to the Conservative Party of Canada
“Environmentalists and ordinary Canadians being branded as extremists is an insult to those of us who fought for our country against real extremists… The Canada I fought for is an…
BC’s critical leadership vacuum
When Gordon Campbell was Premier, advantaging insiders and friends became the BC Government’s raison d’etre. Liberals were damn good at it too. When that sated Premier moved on, he left…
Quotes that resonate
“I’m not a crook.” – Richard Nixon “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” – Bill Clinton “The only charge that anyone can level against us is one…
Meet Andrew Nikiforuk
SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and The Tyee present: De-Friending Oil: An Evening with Andrew Nikiforuk How petro-dependency corrodes our humanity. And what it will take to pull free…
Idiotic neanderthals flourish
Lunch with Anders: Speaks from conviction and going nowhere, Laura Stone, iPolitics, October 1, 2012 “I actually think one of the great stories that was missed by journalists was that…
Regulating for benefit of regulators
CRTC exec who spent evening in Bell box operated in ‘gray area’: Ethics expert, DANNY JONCAS, QMI AGENCY, Toronto Sun, Sept. 28, 2012: “MONTREAL – Nine months after his appointment…
Match point for the good folks
So BC Liberals put an end to Liquor Distribution Branch privatization. Rich Coleman’s efforts withered under the scrutiny of one independent journalist and soon to be retired Liberal MLAs decided…
Abuse went beyond one person in one place
Laura Robinson’s incrimination of establishment man John Furlong led to quick and predictable responses in local media. Vancouver Sun scribbler Daphne Bramham painted a sympathetic picture of the man she…
Journalists slow to criticize colleague
Reader contributions at mainstream media sites are occasionally unreadable, occasionally delightful. Here’s one of the latter type from the Globe & Mail after Margaret Wente defended herself on charges of…
Another reason politicians so detested
Recipients of Kenney missive wondering how government knows their sexual orientation BY GLEN MCGREGOR, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 “OTTAWA — An email extolling the Conservative government’s record on…
Politicspeak with simultaneous translation
The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee was writing about Nick Clegg and Britain’s Liberal Democrats but she could have been writing about the Campbell/Clark BC Liberals: “a string of the same weary…
Renewal without reform?
A skilled and practised word hunter, Ian Reid can flush out sources from behind stone walls. Thursday, he scooped the Legislature’s press gang and published Mea culpa, mea culpa, the…
The rumour mill
Here’s a quick one that came my way today from a pretty decent source. Within the next four months, Christy Clark will decide to focus on the important duties of…
September summer
The Spider’s Web The spider, dropping down from twig, Unfolds a plan of her devising, A thin premeditated rig To use in rising. And all that journey down through space,…
Words to ponder
“In any society where wealth and income concentrate overwhelmingly at the top, the affluent will almost always come to sneer at public services and the men and women who provide…