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How Alberta oil companies bought the BC election – and the media missed it 23 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
I started the week pissed off – make that Tuesday morning when I saw an article in the Province from a guy named Marsden who writes in the Calgary Herald and tell us in British Columbia that we ought ...
We Need the CBC, but Be Real about Its Limits 20 Aug 2013 | 07:51 am
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting is asking for signatures and money to help fight PM Stephen Harper’s interference. How much dissent can be aired by Canada’s public broadcaster? This is about the CB...
Who’s More Bummed, BC’s Enviros or New Dems? 6 Aug 2013 | 04:38 am
Cartoon by Ingrid Rice. Their shared nightmare unfolds: four more years of Liberal reign. The environmental movement is in a deep funk. You can feel it. At least for the time being the fire has gone...
Clark & Redford: What their cozy relationship means for BC pipelines 30 Jul 2013 | 08:46 pm
I have some questions for Premier Clark. Premier, I’m a simple man who by nature asks simple questions. You and Alberta premier Redford have evidently agreed that there will be a pipeline from her p...
Liberals set BC Hydro on path to privatization 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
Will core public assets like WAC Bennett Dam go the way of BC Rail? It’s rather like a pregnancy – you can only keep it a secret for so long. Thus it is with BC Hydro’s bankruptcy. We recently learn...
Why Won’t BC Cover More Preventative Health Care? 22 Jul 2013 | 08:36 pm
What ails Rafe Mair? The illogic of what MSP does and doesn’t pay for. “Comprehensiveness: All necessary health services, including hospitals, physicians and surgical dentists must be insured.” This...
Liberals deliberately trashing BC Hydro, WAC Bennett’s legacy 14 Jul 2013 | 07:26 am
My colleague Damien Gillis’s recent speech in Kelowna (see below) must be required reading if one is to comprehend what is going to happen to BC Hydro. Hydro was created out of the fertile mind of WA...
A BC Gravel Mine Sound Off 10 Jul 2013 | 12:00 am
The Save Our Sound rendezvous in Howe Sound. Photo via Future of Howe Sound Society’s Facebook page. Private profit and a few jobs aren’t worth undoing Howe Sound’s miraculous recovery. I confess at...
Why Rafe Mair is Cancelling his Sun, Province Subscriptions 9 Jul 2013 | 12:48 am
On Thursday, July 4, Mr. Gordon Fisher, publisher of the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province, printed a full page letter to subscribers, telling us that the cost of the papers will increase on August...
Rafe Mair on Mainstream Media a Decade after Leaving CKNW 3 Jul 2013 | 07:28 am
It was ten years ago that I was unceremoniously dumped by CKNW, where I had been for 19 years – nearly 16 as the morning host. What does that have to do with an environmental web page? Modesty is no...
