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"Starving the population." Sensationalist bullshit. Crop yields can be maintained with lower use of nitrogen fertilizer and improved stewardship. Not all farmers are on the "You're killing us boat".

But there are ways that productivity and emission reduction can be had at the same time. Why do people gravitate away from that to the "We're killing the farmers" crap ? Isn't saving the world a worthwhile project, or is it more important to have lots of money in the short term ?

A lot of it comes down to the individual's perception of the climate challenges that face us. For the most part, those railing against measures to reduce GHG emissions rely on a short term cost/benefit position, while those in support take a longer view of the hazards we face, a view that the...

To a point, and in the end it just brings up more questions. The booming success of the corporate sector over the past forty years ties directly back to a grocery list of tax and legislative changes that has made it easier for those who laready have lots of money to go on and make more. This...

I haven't forgotten government's role, but as much as everyone likes to talk about reducing government spending thhings get real quiet when you ask what services we can do without. My question was pretty straightforward, why is the corporate tax rate today half of what it was in 1980, when the...

When money going out grows at a pace larger than money coming in the end result is not difficult to predict. People are getting priced out of the housing market as we speak in BC's major centers.

Yes, but wages have remained largely stagnant, in lower income classes not even keeping pace with the cost of living, even with two incomes where one used to suffice.

Exactly. I wonder how many people don't know that The Beaverton is political satire, not a news source.

It resonates with voters that are already conservative supporters. He's going to need a new message if he hopes to grow outside that part of the electorate. O'Toole tried to cater to the centre and it just cost him votes from those further to the right. A lot of people, a lot, see PP as far...

It sure looks like he has the party leadership in the bag. I wonder if he'll change his tune any to appeal to a wider voter base if he does indeed become CPC leader ? What's working for a lot of those supporting him now will just not fly with the center and anything left of there.

A question that keeps pestering me is why our corporate tax rate today is half of what it was forty years ago, when businesses were every bit as profitable as today ? I grew up in the 60s/70s when a single middle class income paid the mortgage, a car payment, took the family on a summer...

Alex Jones must pay $4.1 million for Sandy Hook hoax claims "Aug 4 (Reuters) - U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre at least $4.1 million for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury said on Thursday." "The...

Exactly. I spent a few years in volunteer service work in a well known organization where rotation of elected representatives was encouraged. You did a term as an assistant, sort of your apprenticeship stage, a term as actual representative, and then an advisory term as "past representive"...

Yes, money is power, and the influence the corporate sector hold over government is a perfect example of that power. I watched a documentary on YouTube recently called "Inside Job", if you dig around a bit you can watch it for free. It was a detailed expose of the shenanigans going on in...

And then: A guy named Milton Friedman wrote a six page essay titled "The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits", which, through leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher ushered in the age of neo-liberal economics that basically said the bottom line is everything...

Useless Trivia: The singer of "The Purple People Eater", one Sheb Wooley, is also credited with being the voice behind the "Wilhelm Scream", a sound bite that has achieved a cult following among motion picture sound editors.

That line probably sells in Alberta of Sakatchewan, but not anywhere else. The oil producers themselves have been hammering away at trade unions (and wages in general) since the bottom came out of the market in 2014, it was the same no matter what government was in power federally or provincially.

That's true, McDonalds has great coffee. And it fits the same specifications as everything else on their menu, you don't need teeth.

Yup. Hot market here in BC's Okanagan Valley. Prices dropping all over, sales inventory up. About freaking time.

Russel Brand, an out-of-work stand-up comic who found he can make more money generating clicks on YouTube than he could cracking one liners at seedy bars. Whatever pays the bills.