Society’s Celebrity Bloodlust Complex and Britney Spears
Last Saturday, I sadly missed a special presentation of something called “The Fall of Britney Spears” or something like that on E! Channel, a sad commentary on our society that used to be Vancouver Island’s TV station. I don’t like Britney Spears’ music or PR thing very much at all, but we are both parents [...]
Gordon’s New Hoax: Informed Climate Change Policy
Hot on the heals of Steve in Ottawa, Gordon in Victoria is trying to look like he knows what he is talking about with the climate change thing. Embracing the Gateway Project goals that link in with the North American SuperCorridor, worshiping the car and pretending to care about transit while removing democracy from the [...]
Steve’s New Hoax: Legislative Ratification of Treaties
I’ve taken to calling it Executive Overdrive: the urge in BC, Ottawa and elsewhere for the executive branch of government to find ways of secretly doing constitutionally significant things [like the SPP or creating a de facto economic union between BC and Alberta with TILMA [which you've probably never heard of]] without legislative oversight or [...]
Voting is Optional in the House of Commons
I like the “or voting” part where actually ratifying is merely an option, since it’s so “unnecessary and cumbersome”…unless it’s important enough to skip the whole legislative thing! This whole thing on the surface rather undermines the TILMA-style executive supremacy that avoids legislative oversight, but in the end, it’s just cruel window dressing. [...]
More Corporate Fascism at TransLink
Through a possible combination of a TransLink half-truth, incompetent journalism or the chronic problem of insufficient space for sufficient depth in Metro [and the other crappy free daily commuter papers], TransLink is able to hide another element of its new corporate fascist structure. The new TransLink “board” [sic] will meet in secret. Its directors were [...]
contributors
