Recent content by VIBC

Are there really people who think a modern society can exist without services financed by taxes...

How is it possible that anyone who has ever watched Canadian hockey, can express surprise that it's a money grubbing culture of abuse & violence from the top down? Just askin'

Do you think it's appropriate that our court system is based on an adversarial spectacle; a verbal fight between lawyers - the outcome depending on who won the debate, in the jury's opinion; rather than on a persistent search for the truth? Or sometimes the outcome depends on 'technicalities'...

So Marc Garneau says he woudn't hesitate to get into one of these new Boeing 737s. Neither would I so long as it stayed on the ground. Duh, this is a guy who wouldn't hesitate to climb into a rocketship and be blasted into orbit. Doesn't say much for his respect of the caution principle - or the...

This is about government. Say we have a big family unit to organise; or a hobby group like a large camera club, maybe an association of long distance hikers. A decision making process is needed; who gets which bedroom, what's for dinner, what photographic field trips or challenging treks should...

Maybe it's a fault in me; maybe not, but I tend to look for the root causes of things - or as close as I can get by mentally digging for them. It leads me to make radical suggestions that can tend to be mocked, but so be it...