How Trudeau’s lies differ from Trump’s lies
by Paul George While Trump is a compulsive liar, Trudeau is a consummate actor. Trump sometimes knows he’s lying. At other times he doesn’t know the answer to a question,…
Blackmail and bailouts in the Kinder Morgan pipeline saga
by Thomas Davies | photo by Jake Wright You couldn’t blame someone for checking, but it was a week late for April Fool’s Day when Kinder Morgan put out an…
Democracy versus party discipline
The 2014 Reform Act was an important first step toward restoring representative government by Kennedy Stewart The Crushing Power of Canadian Political Parties Canadian political parties have more control over…
Canada Infrastructure Bank a Trojan horse
by Joyce Nelson World’s Biggest Investor According to The Economist (Dec. 7, 2013), this company (that nobody has heard of) turns out to be the world’s biggest investor, with more…
Tell me lies, lies, crude little lies
by Eoin Finn In the wake of the Federal Government’s phenomenal decision this week to purchase a 65-year-old leaky oil pipeline and the unbuilt TMX project, it is worth examining…
Big Three’s “low cost” data plans are a bad joke
INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Marie Aspiazu Back in March, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) closed the doors on Wi-Fi based Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), such as Sugar Mobile….
Vancouver: the day the media died
Will legacy media survive obvious false equivalency? by Bruce Mason Blip. Blip. Mainly comatose for ages, that’s the sound of mainstream media in the Lower Mainland. A weak, worrisome flat-line…
John Horgan’s $6 billion LNG giveaway
A bad deal for BC by Eoin Finn B.Sc., Ph.D., MBA The announcement – on World Water Day – that the NDP Government is to enact regulations and legislation to…
Money, power, control and democracy
How money controls democracy and blocks electoral reform by Jeff and Diana Jewell In Canada, we’re told we have democracy. But do we? Lincoln defined democracy as “government of the…
First-past-the-post system vulnerable
Cambridge Analytica targets voters to influence election outcomes Revelations late last month about Cambridge Analytica’s use of psychographic targeting to influence elections should be of special concern to Canadians because…