Lets talk oil and put things in perspective.  First thing to note, the current sharp price increase has nothing to do with the carbon tax.  The price increase is part of the nudge nudge wink wink game played ever spring.  There is always an excuse. Carbon tax about a penny price increase to sixteen cents. […]

Pleasure Center “Recently scientists have identified a ‘pleasure center’ in the brain which can be stimulated directly. Researchers have implanted electrodes in the hypothalamuses of rats, who are then placed in a cage in front of three levers. Pressing the first releases a piece of food, the second lever yields a drink, and the third […]

THE BLIND LEADING THE LAME   One of the certainties of life is that if we want to travel we have to use some form of transport to get there.  Having just vacationed in Europe, that mode of travel had to be an aircraft, or several of them. For the past six or seven months […]

Fold To bend something over onto a part of itself is to fold it over. When I fold a piece of paper I may then push together where the fold begins in order to make it crease. One can fold something many times. I might fold a piece of paper into an airplane. I might […]

Domestic Workers fall through cracks in Employment Standards Act Thousands of British Columbian families rely on migrant workers to provide in-home care for children, seniors, and adults with disabilities. The overwhelming majority of these workers are women who come to Canada from the Philippines, India, China, Mexico, and other developing nations, seeking to improve their […]

  More than one million beverage containers go “missing” every day in British Columbia. In other words, they don’t get recycled, meaning they could end up in lakes, streams, the ocean, or simply be left as litter in the environment. A new report by the Ocean Legacy Foundation states that every day in B.C., more than […]