McQUARRIE – Federal politics like an episode of Fawlty Towers these days
“We’ve been conditioned to think that only politicians can solve our problems. But at some point maybe we will wake up and recognize that it was politicians who [Continue]
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McQUARRIE – ‘Canada will never run of oil, like we never ran out of beavers’
‘WE DON’T EXPORT beaver pelts any more and I can assure you it isn’t because we ran out of beavers. In fact, we can’t get rid of the #@&ing little things. [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Imagine if a government told you exactly what it is spending
IMAGINE, IF JUST FOR A MOMENT, if just for a moment, an op/ed writer beginning a column with a headline that states, Local Politicians Get It Right. Impossible you would [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Right or wrong, why take a chance on climate change?
IT WAS DURING one of those coffee shop conversations when I was asked what I thought would happen if my opinion on climate change was eventually proven wrong. “Being the [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Being ‘busy’ is not a badge of honour or proof of importance
HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU HEARD or maybe even used the excuse that begins with, “Sorry I’m late but I’ve just been so busy”? It is today’s most overused excuse [Continue]
McQUARRIE – New female politicians breaking the business-as-usual mould
IN RESEARCHING my previous column on abortion http://tinyurl.com/yy77xdmn, I couldn’t help but feel some important pieces to the puzzle were again being ignored. Not the [Continue]
McQUARRIE – The Foreigner in our land
“IF A WOMAN HAS (the right to an abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman? At least the rapist’s pursuit of [Continue]
McQUARRIE – All-talk, no-action complainers always pointing fingers
LET’S TALK ABOUT WHY really rich people paying for the restoration of the Notre Dame Cathedral might be the best plan going. And while we’re doing that, let’s [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Small-town secrets from of the Republic of Northern Island
The Republic Of Northern Island– Small towns can have many secrets but this small town, my newly adopted one of Port McNeill, has one of the best-kept secrets going. [Continue]
McQUARRIE – What’s the real reason behind demands to stop foreign aid?
IT’S LIKELY YOU’VE SEEN these on your social media news feeds. I’m referring to posts that urgently demand we stop giving money in support of foreign aid and [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Electorate is actually more united than it is divided
MANUFACTURING VOTER UNEASE and suspicions as a means of achieving party ambitions has become the divisive tool of choice for many a politician. And polarizing public opinion [Continue]
McQUARRIE – We need to do something about the direction the Titanic is taking
YOUR COMMENTS ON my last column about day-care and taxation showed a unity of mind I wasn’t quite expecting. Yes, there was the expected, ‘Not my problem, not with my [Continue]
McQUARRIE – The question inevitably arises, ‘Who’s going to pay for it?’
“WHO’S GOING to pay for it?” It’s the battle cry of many when it comes to ideas that would improve society and if I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard this, [Continue]
GUEST COLUMN – Former Kamloopsian adjusts to retirement in a small town
By BILL McQUARRIE Notes from the Rainforest PORT McNEILL – It’s been awhile since we last chatted. Something like four months since I dashed out of town on what [Continue]
