Vancouver’s Livability Delusion/Denial
Vancouver’s website has a link to the civic themes we’re promoting at our pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai. The spin [see below] is almost totally unbearable. I take issue with the the city’s PR claims of sustainability, livability, an urban sanctuary and our awareness of our impact on nature. I don’t care what kind [...]
Is a Car Free Vancouver Possible?
CarFreeYVR posted a nice video [below] discussing the motivations and inspirations for car-free days in Vancouver. With car-free days festivals coming again on June 20 on Main Street, Commercial Drive, Kits and the West End [happy Father's Day!], I’m excited to see hundreds take over the pavement. But how does Vancouver ever become the first [...]
Olympic Threat Mathematics
Almost a year ago I wrote about how VANOC was exploring risks to Olympic corporate sponsors. People don’t like them because they have co-opted the Olympics and are pimping the athletes and glee-seekers for their own exposure, which is now most evident in Olympic logos all over the TV, skyscraper advertising condoms downtown and inane [...]
Oil Status Quo Apologists Spin Weak Arguments
Maclean’s Colin Campbell has produced today an interesting counterpoint to my exuberance over Jeff Rubin’s convenient vindication of my peak oil killing neoliberal globalization thesis. And despite Rubin not knowing me, I fell it’s appropriate to defend him–and my–sense of the near future. My comments are indented. Energy shock and oil myths Will soaring prices crush [...]
Politics, Re-Spun on Coop Radio, 5.4.09, a Vista Video Podcast
On Monday, May 4, 2009, Politics, Re-Spun met Coop Radio on “The Rational”, a Monday evening issues program. This is the second visit, with the next scheduled for Monday, May 11th, the night before the BC provincial election. Imtiaz Popat and I talked about the leaders debate last night, how horribly condescending and unprofessional Gordon Campbell was, [...]
Gordon Campbell Fires Himself During the Leaders Debate
I was thoroughly astonished at how effectively Gordon Campbell maimed his political career during the leaders debate. But really, I shouldn’t be because of his utter inability to have any meaningful breadth of vision as a leader. I can understand why the Liberals are hiding out and not attending all candidates meetings. Their record is [...]
Canada Line P3: More Lies
It was surreal hearing about the block party on Cambie Street on the weekend when “thousands of pedestrians took to the street to celebrate the completion of the Canada Line.” Was it designed by TransLink to keep the Cambie merchants from starting any more lawsuits? Celebrating the completion of the Canada Line? Right. As many [...]
TransLink Police Harassment: The Olympics are Coming So Get Used to It
Know Your Rights | Megaphone. Watch this and learn! Know your rights, carry video phones/cams, question authorities. Call them on abusive behaviour. Watch the spread of CCTV in the city. Watch how things tighten up as the Olympics approach. Support the BC Civil Liberties Association. Remember, public servants serve the public. Share the Love: Twitter [...]
Carole James Masters Bill Good’s Show
On the day before Gordon Campbell cynically drops the election writ into a province that he usually refuses to respect or answer to, BC NDP leader Carole James visited the Bill Good show and hits serial home runs, proving she’s for more able to be premier than Gordon Campbell. Despite his show often sounding like [...]
Gullible Gord: A Compendium of Campbell’s Fear and Desperation
“Incompetence is combined with thoughtlessness, arrogance and hubris — a fatal mix.” via Spare Us from Gullible Gord :: Views :: thetyee.ca. Rarely is there an article that so succinctly lists evidence of Campbell’s extraordinary dislocation from reality, worship of neoliberalism and disregard for citizens and communities. Rape and pillage for the lowest financial return [...]
“Lord Stern on global warming: It’s even worse than I thought”
“Sea levels are likely to rise twice as fast as predicted in the last UN climate change report in 2007.” via Lord Stern on global warming: It’s even worse than I thought – Climate Change, Environment – The Independent. As governments continue to craft optics-friendly greenwashing plans while ramping up highways construction, etc., I keep [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
COPE’s Ideas Conference and Re-Inspiring a Robust Democracy
In our society citizens are rapidly being re-framed as consumers. We need to seriously question just what democracy means to us. Politics is not an event that a bunch of us take part in every few years at an election. It is something that happens every day. If we choose to ignore politics except during [...]
Sam Sullivan’s Latest Re-Election Schemes, 54 Weeks[!] Before the Election
Today’s fresh new email from Mayor Sam Sullivan [see below] graced my email inbox with an upfront expression of his concern for the recent shootings in Vancouver. After the debacle of his attempt at union-breaking strike management he now wants to assure us he’s out to protect our lives. Start the email with fear and [...]
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