Prima facie
Prima facie may be used as an adjective meaning: "Sufficient to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebutted."Listen to Dermod Travis of Integrity BC talking with…
BC Liberals
BC Liberals and their allies strike back
The BC Liberals are using their most trusted media tools to once again smear victims who have, according to Adrian Dix, "been repeatedly exonerated” in the health ministry scandal.The Christy…
LNG: another reader contribution
To me, the continuing LNG fantasy initiative qualifies as a Dead Pony Solution. It assumes there are only positive arguments to go forward regardless! This belligerent belief is presented by…
Budget bashing
Borrow money to pay a dividend that allows government to declare a fake surplus and pro-media applauds. #bcpoli https://t.co/W6PX7AMlb3— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) February 17, 2016Today's debt by Premier's "singular tough-mindedne...
Too much cynicism?
Rafe Mair distributes commentary through Rafe Mair Online, The Common Sense Canadian, The Tyee and other places. One of those is an email distribution list.I appreciate almost anything Rafe creates…
Questions for BC Liberal by-election candidates
One day after Kelowna Liberal MLA Ben Stewart resigned in 2013, unelected Christy Clark called a by-election so that she could seek election and continue as Premier. Weeks later, Stewart…
Buy high, sell low
In the six months ended September 30, BC Hydro purchased 7,640 GWh of electricity from independent power producers. It paid $599 million, which is $78,400 per GWh.In the same period,…
Proceeding without caution
Even slightly aware BC citizens know that Premier Clark and her accomplices are incompetent. Liberal managers include not a single person capable of completing a basic course in strategic decision…
Furstenau–Why are we doing this?
The escalating threat to the Shawnigan Watershed hangs over the lives of Shawnigan residents facing an unmoving, uncaring and unconscious BC Liberal government. They did not care a fiddle over…
Pammy’s progress
RossK's The Gazetteer, in This Day In Clarkland...Pammy's Progress, featured a Tweet of BC's NotSenator Pam talking with Burke Mountain Liberals in Coquitlam. I couldn't not reply..@pamelamartin_bc kicks off our…
Loyalty rewarded
UBC Board of Governors elects Stuart Belkin as new chair, UBC News, December 7, 2015:UBC’s Board of Governors has elected Stuart Belkin as the board’s incoming chair. Belkin is chair…
Investing our money in companies that kill us
BC Gov't pension managers invest over $125 billion without any stated plan to invest ethically. #bcpoli #climatechange — Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) November 3, 2015 BC Gov't pension investment managers placed…
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…
Liberal strategy emerges to contain health scandal
Rob Shaw’s article in the Liberal Party’s urban newspaper of record indicates a search for new scapegoats in the Health Research Scandal is underway. It is reported that departed ministry…
Wild fantasies and planned deceit
It is now clear that LNG claims made by Liberals before the 2013 BC election were wild fantasies and carefully planned deceit. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — an…
Blood on their hands
An earlier In-Sights article included: I have no doubt BC Liberal involvement with Big Pharma is at the root of high-level government decisions to knee-cap research into the safety and…
Harper, BC Tory MPs have oil on their hands from English Bay spill
Richard Hughes-Cowichan Conversations It is when events like the recent bunker oil spill in English Bay take place that the value of independent writers, thinkers, and bloggers like Rafe Mair…
Left Over 2015-02-24 12:32:11
Privatized playground at North Vancouver’s Cousteau International French School angers parent Cousteau International French School has leased the grounds of former Fromme elementary school CBC News Posted: Feb 24, 2015…
Distracting, dissembling, deflecting – lest you forget
Are you unhappy with rapidly increasing electricity rates and the general state of BC Hydro finances? Are you looking for the party responsible? Well, the Vancouver Sun has the answer.…
BC Liberals LNG Tax Bill equals Unprecedented Wealth Transfer and Will Pass Unopposed
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor The LNG Tax Bill currently winding its way through the BC legislature will impact the very fundamentals of this Province and paves the way for a…