McQuarrie

McQUARRIE – Eunuchs of social media replace real life with hashtags

October 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

I HAD AN INTERESTING but let’s say weird line of thought the other day. It was about eunuchs and I think most would agree it was an odd thought, given the subject matter. [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Maybe it’s the voters, not the politicians, who are insane

September 22, 2019 // 3 Comments

WHEN IT COMES to the Oct. 21 election, are you expecting different outcomes than what you have experienced with every other federal election? It’s a serious question but [Continue]

McQUARRIE – The only good voter is an informed voter

September 1, 2019 // 2 Comments

WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER and the start of crazy season; that time of promises that will never be kept, misrepresentations, alternative facts and even outright lies that is [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Federal politics like an episode of Fawlty Towers these days

August 18, 2019 // 3 Comments

“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]

McQUARRIE – ‘Canada will never run of oil, like we never ran out of beavers’

August 4, 2019 // 4 Comments

‘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

July 21, 2019 // 1 Comment

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?

July 7, 2019 // 3 Comments

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

June 23, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

June 2, 2019 // 3 Comments

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

May 19, 2019 // 7 Comments

“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

May 5, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

April 23, 2019 // 2 Comments

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?

March 31, 2019 // 3 Comments

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

March 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

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]