Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Elections BC and the charade of secrecy
Shortly after 11 am Friday, August 26, Acting Chief Electoral Officer Craig James delivered HST vote results to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, the Clerk of the Assembly and the Attorney...
View ArticleNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Crimes in progress (another 2010 article...
News item: British Columbia Liberals announce the new Clean Energy Act sets the foundation for a new future of electricity self-sufficiency. Definition: Self-sufficiency: The ability to satisfy one’s...
View ArticleNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Falcon: Revenue neutral HST an "urban legend"
When the referendum delivered an unwanted result, BC's provincial government reshaped, polished and coordinated messages to the public. One particularly troublesome claim, made by Finance Minister...
View ArticleNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Vancouver Sun: FAIL!
On the left you can see yesterday’s Vancouver Sun cover page the day after more than 60 First Nations annouced they will not allow the Enbridge pipeline through their territories, on the right you can...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Can Geeks Defeat Lies? Thoughts on a Fresh New Approach to...
fact check universe.png This afternoon, I’ll be at MIT for this conference, sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard and the MIT Center for Civic Media and entitled...
View ArticleNorthern Insight: Truthiness in BC
During the past week, this blog’s third birthday slipped by and I barely noticed because life is busier than ever. What began as an aim to gain a little writing proficiency through practice has grown...
View ArticleNorthern Insight: BC Liberal truthiness
We face 26 weeks of taxpayer paid pre-election advertising promoting the BC Liberals. They'll be using "facts" like this one, broadcast on Global TV November 9: "We're ensuring British Columbians have...
View ArticleNorthern Insight: Truth and Premier Photo Op remain strangers
David Akin’s On the Hill, November 2/12, Latest job numbers: BC is number one — in job losses ” ‘I’m going to run on (being) number one in job creation,’ BC Premier Christy Clark told the Liberal Party...
View ArticleNorthern Insight: One value Premier failed to learn: truthfulness
In Sunday’s thirty minute TV commercial, Christy Clark said that leadership involves, “holding true to the values you were raised with…” If I were one of the people that parented her, I would feel a...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: Rafe asks: Is ‘lying’ too strong a word for Clark...
Rafe Mair has struggled with our Premier’s lack of ‘truthiness’ when it comes to the straight goods on LNG. If it were not so serious it would be downright hilarious. Most are not prepared,...
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: Jim Prentice Fails the “Truthiness” Test (apologies to...
If Jim Prentice is going to wade into the murky waters of “truthiness” the least he could do is do it properly, otherwise the whole thing becomes a farce. Stephen Colbert “Truthiness” is a term coined...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: Christy Clark’s Personal Fight Against BC Teachers Is...
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger In 2002, then BC Liberal Education Minister Christy Clark ripped classroom composition provisions out of the legally negotiated contract. The teachers in 1998 had...
View ArticleNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Truthiness
This week, radio Station CKNW played commercials aimed at promoting public confidence in the absolute safety of Trans Mountain pipeline operations and marine shipments of petroleum products on the west...
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In-Sights: Crime (still) in progress (a 2010 article repeated)
News item:British Columbia Liberals announce the new Clean Energy Act sets the foundation for a new future of electricity self-sufficiency.Definition:Self-sufficiency: The ability to satisfy one’s...
View ArticleIn-Sights: Crime (still) in progress (a 2010 article repeated)
News item: British Columbia Liberals announce the new Clean Energy Act sets the foundation for a new future of electricity self-sufficiency. Definition: Self-sufficiency: The ability to satisfy one’s...
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: “Post-truth” Politics in Alberta
Albertans can learn a lot about the importance of truth in politics from the Trump/Clinton presidential race. Political lies have moved beyond “misstatements” for which politicians “take full...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Week 1 Update from the Calgary-Lougheed...
Photo: Former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed. The Calgary-Lougheed electoral district is named after Lougheed. It has been one week since the Calgary-Lougheed by-election was called. The by-election is...
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