Welcome once again to
Day Seven ... a look back at the most read commentaries of the week ...
including a couple that go back to the previous week.
A couple of our regulars, John Feldsted and
Adam Olsen, come in with multiple commentaries (3 and 2 respectively) ... and
as always, a multitude of topics made the week interesting. Let’s get underway ... here’s number ten and the
first of three from John ...
#10 ... FELDSTED -- Blaming
the drug makers is not reasonable if we made no effort to ensure supply
continuance (August 9th)
... Health Canada was asleep at the switch. It knew the patents were expiring. It could have contracted for a continuing supply or even oversupply. Blaming the drug makers is not reasonable if we made no effort to ensure supply continuance...
#9 ... Our federation is built on the constitutional principle that the provinces have the better understanding of local circumstances to make policies that are best suited to the needs of their citizens (August 4th)
... while the New
Democratic government of BC continues to jack up the carbon taxes British
Columbians pay, next door the government of Alberta is opposed to any
interference by the federal government in what it, and several others provinces
infer, is incursion into provincial maters ...
#8 ... DAN ALBAS -- One question on the minds of the many citizens I have heard from is; what has changed since the days of the Exxon Valdez (August 8th)
... in terms of tanker
sailings, the completion of the TMX project would result in roughly 34 tanker
sailings per month -- currently there are 5 sailings ... what has changed since
the days of the Exxon Valdez? ...
#7 ... ADAM OLSEN -- I’m
certainly not going to unpack it all here right now, but this post was
inspired by a thought I had mid-downward dog as I worked out my inner yogi and
the flexibility of my hamstrings (August 5th)
... my mom’s forthright critique of my physique motivated me to begin turning all that potential energy that I was storing around my midriff into kinetic energy. As I took care of my physical self, my mental, emotional and spiritual well-being also began to improve. No surprise, it’s all connected ...
#6 ... ADAM OLSEN -- someone
at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Committee, or the Hudson's Bay Company, decided
to outsource replica Indian sweaters from Asia - that caused a firestorm of
criticism (August 6th)
... in an act of defiance against the HBC, folks began looking for a knitter
to produce something new for them. That was not easy because, in the 20
previous years, most of the knitters had passed and few of their children
continued the work ....
#5 ... FELDSTED -- If
our actions are a flagrant abuse, we risk a demotion to outcast and a
prison cell (August 6th)
... we exist in an artificial world of self-containment, and independence, in
a society that survives through mutual aid, respect and tolerance ... we have
never before experienced the abundance of opportunities ...
#4 ... Free
speech is an essential pillar of democracy ... and governments,
institutions, commissions, the owners of Social Media platforms, and the courts
have slowly been whittling away at that pillar (August 3rd)
... what’s one of the hottest issues these days
whether on social media, in colleges and universities, or out and about in
public? It’s FREE SPEECH ...
#3 ... FELDSTED -- Climate-change
strategy offers Scheer a way to win election (August 3rd)
... no Canadian
government will have the slightest effect on climate change. Whether we shut
down all use of carbon-based energy sources and freeze in the dark or fully
develop our energy resources, our climate will continue to change ...
#2 ... Despite millions government rakes in from cigarette
and alcohol taxes, legalized cannabis, and all manner of gambling sources ... people
have resorted to Crowd-Funding for addictions treatment (August 10th)
... our provincial government MUST do better – I’ve said it before, and I’ll
say it again, because it is long overdue.
People are dying needlessly due to government inaction – this needs to
end ...
And now the number one commentary, which was read by the most people
this past week ...
#1 ... BC Hydro illegally
adding
GST to the Customer Crisis Fund (no matter how little the amount) – only
makes it worse (August 9th)
... is the
Customer Crisis fund a retail purchase?
NO, it is not! Is the Customer
Crisis fund a real estate sale? Definitely
Not! Is the Customer Crisis fund a personal service? It certainly isn’t! ...
Enjoy the rest of your day, and we’ll be back again tomorrow to start a new week.
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