BC-STV more choice for voters
by Nick Loenen IN BC’S CURRENT electoral system, the political parties – and increasingly only the party leaders – control which names will appear on the ballot. Voters are given…
You, me and STV
Let’s make it fly You have to ask yourself; why don’t we adopt STV in BC? Are we a bunch of chickens or what? Are the politicos a little worried…
Back room drug deals
DRUG BUST Alan Cassels “The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society and we are, as a people, inherently and historically opposed to secret societies,…
Obama and the return of the real
by Jonathan Schell The inauguration of Barack Obama, whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant, is both a culmination and a…
Fair voting in BC
The Citizens’ Assembly worked it out in 2004. We can make it happen in 2009 by Nick Loenen On May 12, 2009, British Columbians will take to the polls to…
Battling the banks to save public power
WRITING ON THE WALL by Representative Dennis Kucinich Once they were as gods, but the deities of the American banking system are now in ruins, plunged from their Rep….
Another US nail in the coffin of international law
by Robert Dreyfuss A parallel new Bush doctrine is emerging, in the last days of the soon-to-be ancien régime, and it needs to be strangled in its crib. Like the…
Give me some truth
by Joseph Roberts I’m sick and tired of hearing things From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites All I want is the truth Just gimme some truth I’ve had enough of reading…
How 9/11 taught me to seek truth
by Drew Noftle In 2005, I was living a luxurious life in Beijing, China, as the private English teacher for Yang Kaisheng, then President of the Industrial Commercial Bank of…
How Canada can avoid an American corporate takeover
by Drew Noftle What do you call a country where the gap between the rich and the poor is growing beyond bounds, the principal exports are wood pulp and scrap…