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A significant week just passed. Great days for some; difficult moments for others. Like many observers of British Columbia politics, I was ... -
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Perhaps my concern in an earlier blog post about trending toward fascism missed an important proof. In July 2010, the chairman and cofound...
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I first published a link to this video February 2 and it has been viewed by thousands of Northern Insight readers. Additionally, most maj...
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The Majesty of Clayoquot Sound - My main focus on my trip to Vancouver Island was to go kayaking in Clayoquot Sound. I had heard they started to log it and wanted to check it out. Actual...
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Obama Admin. Admits for First Time It Killed Four U.S. Citizens in Drone Strikes Outside War Zones - The United States has formally confirmed for the first time that it killed four American citizens in Yemen and Pakistan, “outside of areas of active hostil...3 hours ago
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Is Justin Trudeau ruthless enough to be Prime Minister? - One of the things that defines leaders is their lack of morality and poverty of ethics. You don't get to the top without fucking over a major portion of yo...4 hours ago
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Heather Place redevelopment will replace 86 social housing units, add 144 rental units - The Metro Vancouver Housing Corp. has confirmed that the Heather Place redevelopment in Vancouver, which will see the replacement of 86 units of social hou...5 hours ago
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IRS Sleuths Were on the Right Track: Big Tobacco Created Tea Party in 1994 - *This is a guest post by Pam Martens, cross-posted with permission from Wall Street On Parade.* On February 25, 2013, James Hepburn, writing at Daily Kos...6 hours ago
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Preview: Going to Jail for Justice - Tim DeChristopher tells why he spent nearly two years in prison in the name of environmental justice, and Gretchen Morgenson discusses how banks are still ...7 hours ago
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Action alert: Save our SARA - Today is the International Day for Biodiversity and we’re celebrating by renewing efforts to save the Species at Risk Act from the chopping block.8 hours ago
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Fun at an Insurance Company Dinner. - For those of you working in the insurance industry, and especially for those of you that think insurance companies are humourless organisations, I give yo...9 hours ago
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Dear Oklahoma: We Feel for you, we love you, but do us some favors - The immense, mindless violence of a tornado hitting a small Oklahoma town, turning houses into splinters and crushing people under rubble, including childr...11 hours ago
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IMF Calls on Cameron Tories to Change Course - Britain's Conservative Cameron government are the High Priests of bone-crushing austerity. David Cameron and his gaggle of privileged Saville Row suiter...
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The Copyright Pentalogy: Copyright Collective Management - This week I wrote about the need for reform of the Copyright Board of Canada. Copyright collective management is addressed in two chapters of The Copyright...21 hours ago
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Exclusive: Management shakeup at B.C. Place - One week after the BC Liberals were re-elected, a management shakeup at B.C. Place Stadium. B.C. Pavilion Corporation CEO Dana Hayden notified staff on Ma...
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Letters to the Editor: Daryl versus Malcolm - Tit for tat department. Last Thursday SkyTrain lobbyist Daryl Dela Cruz had the following letter printed in the Surrey Leader. An elevated metro station, a...1 day ago
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How the BC NDP Blew the Election - A series of unfortunate events, indeed. - *From the Bad Beginning to the Slippery Slope to the Penultimate Peril and The End - the BC NDP election story makes for grim reading* *Adrian Dix in Vict...
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Duffy ..... Would you take money from al-qaeda? Don't you mean, would "I" take money from the PMO? - As much as Mike Duffy has used one liners to gain fame and fortune since before 1988, it's those same one liners that are waiting in your local public lib...1 day ago
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Stop infected farm salmon - On May 7, 2013, Ecojustice filed a lawsuit on my behalf against the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Harvest for the transfer of juvenile Atlantic salmon inf...1 day ago
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Good advice for B.C. from Dobbin & the ghost of Tommy Douglas - I don’t always agree with Murray Dobbin, but this… In Saskatchewan where I come from, Tommy Douglas and the CCF (the precursor of the NDP) won power in 194...1 day ago
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The tenacity of hope - Spending every Sunday for more than a year now with a ragtag group of kids from deprived, troubled childhoods has turned out to be a surprisingly hearteni...
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What is to be done - Five days after posting, my little election missive has had over 6,000 page views. And more than 60 commenters have posted, all passionate and articulate,...1 day ago
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"A culture of accountability" - Yeah, right Prime Minister Stephen Harper told his Conservative caucus this morning that he’s “upset” by the conduct of some senators and members of his own ...1 day ago
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Democratic Deficit Quantified: Canadians’ Representation in Parliament Declines by 97% - This post is the first of a new series on the history and future of Canadian multi-party democracy. The posts will be based on a spreadsheet of election re...1 day ago
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Any Bets As To What Happens Next For Stevie? - After that twitter storm of #PMHarperMustResign, I found a few interesting tweets. Got me thinking. We already knew that Stevie Spiteful was planning to ...2 days ago
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Pox perspective . . . - OUR WELTANSCHAUUNG: how much of it has been shaped because somebody creative had a dose? You know, the gift-that-keeps-on-giving, aka syphilis, aka "The Fren...2 days ago
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Global Capital and the Nation State - As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and...2 days ago
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More On The New Rovians Of The Lotuslandian Sage. - *ThePoliticsOfTotalDestruction* *AttackEverythingVille* Well, well, whadd'ya know. Christy's $10K per month plumber put together the final attack ad just ...3 days ago
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Too broke, or too disorganized, to keep the national gallery open - The Honduran National Gallery of Art locked its doors this week. The government hasn’t provided any money since January. Staff haven’t been paid since Nov...
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Announcing Canada’s $90,000 Bill - If you liked the design for the $20 and $50 bill, you’ll love the look and feel of the all-new $90,000 bill. Featuring financial wunderkind Mike Duffy, i...4 days ago
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Citizen Army Lobbies Congress for Clean Air - Ambassadors from every state arrive en masse to buttonhole congress reps The grassroots campaign involved ambassadors from every state, plus D.C. and ...5 days ago
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Green on the Other Side - I am not impressed that the British Columbia Green Party chose to run a candidate against former Sierra Club head, New Democratic Party candidate George He...1 week ago
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Can We Talk about the Gosnell Case? Apparently Not - Yet another demonstration of why there is no common ground between pro- and anti-choice. When Kermit Gosnell was convicted Tuesday in the deaths of three b...1 week ago
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Inventing Stanley Park Now Available - After toiling on this project for an embarrassing number of years, I am very pleased to announce that my first book has now been published and it is availa...1 week ago
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NDP Ignored the Wrong People - The NDP blew it! Even party stalwarts …except those so blind they will NOT see … have to admit, Adrian Dix and the party strategists threw an election vict...1 week ago
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Addressing Last Minute Liberal and NDP Attacks - UPDATED 5/13: Vicki did not vote for the HST implementation, as falsely stated in the NDP pre-election attack robocall in Delta South. -----------------...1 week ago
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Another NDP Government? Reflections on 35 years in British Columbia - I arrived in British Columbia in the fall of 1978 and was quickly made aware of the politics of the province. There was something close to caricature in th...1 week ago
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His eyes are on the tiger - [image: Thumb_tiger-thumb-500x170-55375] *Again this week, I'm double-posting a major review to permit your comments, which my main site can't accept--al...1 week ago
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Why I’m volunteering for Joyce Murray - I think Joyce Murray may be the Liberal Party’s last, best hope. She’s certainly the only candidate running for leader right now with a vision for Canada t...5 weeks ago
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What the Heck is “Year End” Money? - Political parties have long abused your tax dollars for political purposes. It’s become accepted practice for the governing party to engage in pre-electi...1 month ago
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A Cure For Outsourcing - Norm Farrell and others have outlined the latest prank on the part of the Canadian banking establishmen t: http://northerninsights.blogspot.ca/2013/0...1 month ago
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The Portly Chef, North Vancouver Lonsdale - Like most communities, the North Shore has numerous restaurants struggling for positions in the marketplace. There seems no end of places without distinction...
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