Thoughts on BC Politics and More

Used with permission of the author  --- first posted in CFJC Today VETERAN BROADCAST JOURNALIST-turned website scribe Bob Price called to ask me who’s going to win Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo in October. He was putting together a look-ahead story for The Orca, the online publication for which he now writes. What did Jim Harrison predict, I wanted to know? “Too close to call,” said Price. I can do better than that, I told him. If the election were held tomorrow, Cathy McLeod would keep her seat for the Conservatives by 3,000 votes. But that is not a prediction of what will happen Oct. 21. Price reminded me that McLeod won by about 3,000 votes in 2015, too, prevailing over the NDP’s Bill Sundhu and the Liberals’ Steve Powrie. This is true, I acknowledged, but different factors are at play now. In my view, there are three keys that will determine the outcome, and I’ll get to them in a minute. Let’s keep in mind the riding ha...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men were created equal … that all men were created equal. Those immortal words, written by Thomas Jefferson are from the second paragraph of the American Declaration of Independence . They were an ultimatum to a tyrannical English king and they mark a turning point in the history of mankind. They are in fact, the basis of the standard of living we take for granted today. And that message is particularly relevant today, with our world overwhelmingly populated with intellectual experts whose main claim to fame consists of holding a profound capacity to ignore context in all their thinking. Tragically, the message they send out vilifies the very people who did so much to move our society from despotism toward freedom. Hence, this effort to put meat on the dry bones of history. … to elaborate my point. The Egyptian civilization, beginning some 5 thousand years ago, is among the earliest from which we have a written r...