Norm Farrell IN-SIGHTS.CA

Confused about how to vote in BC's 2026 election? This provides a highly condensed view of party platforms and places five parties on the the left-right spectrum. in-sights.ca/2026/10/23/e...

Dominated as Canada is by large corporations that profit through monopolization, this country needs an organization with goals like those promoted by the American Economic Liberties Project. We have one in the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project. in-sights.ca/2026/10/22/p...

"Effective income tax rates climb steadily for most of the population but fall sharply for billionaires and centi-millionaires. These elites pay proportionally less than most of the households that earn much lower incomes." in-sights.ca/2026/10/07/w...

Barbarians not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. in-sights.ca/2026/10/04/d...

#NorthVan District Council member Jim Hanson talked about the need for reform of Metro Vancouver governance. He illustrated his comments by comparing wastewater treatment projects in Victoria and North Vancouver. in-sights.ca/2026/09/21/m...

Government involvement in megaprojects: inevitably, taxpayers get hosed, while the world’s wealthy grow wealthier. Taxpayers spend billions acquiring, building, and improving assets. Then the privatizers sell to private interests. in-sights.ca/2026/09/17/t...

Government involvement in megaprojects: inevitably, taxpayers get hosed, while the world’s wealthy grow wealthier. Taxpayers spend billions acquiring, building, and improving assets. Then the privatizers sell to private interests. in-sights.ca/2026/09/17/t...

That’s a big drop Gigawatt-Hours Generated by Each MW of Capacity. Seems weird their response to summer drought and low water is to screw over small solar producers like me who backfill this.

Health, nature, art and social connection are a few of my favourite things — which is why this award-winning collaboration has been so meaningful. Thanks for the spotlight, @vancouvermagazine.bsky.social. vanmag.com/city/general... #healthybynature

I could only include 10 of his cartoons. To see more of his incomparable work, you should follow him at: @deadder.bsky.social !

SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)

Several realities stand out at BC Hydro. Electricity demand from residential, commercial, and light industrial customers remains flat while power delivered to heavy industry has increased. These customers are paying well below BC Hydro’s marginal cost of electricity. in-sights.ca/2026/08/22/5...

Deregulation, like trickle-down economics, benefits those at the top. Both ideas are popular with the wealthiest 10%—and considerably less appealing to the other 90%, who are expected to live with the consequences. In Campbell River, those consequences are outrageous. in-sights.ca/2026/08/21/o...

In just three months, the value of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global has increased by C$1.42 billion—the equivalent of C$25,000 for every man, woman, and child living in Norway. in-sights.ca/2026/08/20/n...

Denmark and Sweden are the only two industrialized countries likely to attain net-zero. Canada will not. The Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act was passed in 2021, but it has no enforceable requirement that the country actually achieve net zero by 2050. in-sights.ca/2026/08/19/j...

FIGHT ME! #Pinks #USDemocracy

"A better turbine alone is not enough. The real answer is wind and solar working together, and naca.boost, with its integrated photovoltaic panels, is the proof of that." knowledge.energyinst.org/new-energy-w...

Friends and family can drift apart for all sorts of reasons—pride, misunderstandings, embarrassment, or simply the passage of time. But when a relationship once mattered, it may still be worth recovering. Smile when you do it. You’ll likely smile afterwards. in-sights.ca/2026/08/17/r...

If you believe taxpayer funds should not be used to build out pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure then I urge you to sign the petition below. #climatecrisis

Is it a public resource when successive governments give it away? in-sights.ca/2026/08/14/e...

Canada is on fire. Again. The Carney government fast-tracks a pipeline. Still. Can anyone come up with a better way to invest $43.7 billion that builds the nation rather than burning it down? - Mitchell Beer in-sights.ca/2026/08/09/w...

‘Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous’ by Tom Nichols deserves widespread notice. in-sights.ca/2026/08/09/t...

‘Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous’ by Tom Nichols deserves widespread notice. in-sights.ca/2026/08/09/t...

Governments cannot credibly acknowledge the dangers of climate change while adopting policies that deepen dependence on the fuels driving it. in-sights.ca/2026/08/09/w...

Private companies know there’s no business case for more pipelines when renewables have never been cheaper, cleaner, and faster to deploy. So the government is investing OUR money instead. Most Canadians agree: NO taxpayer-funded pipelines >> act.gp/3RlAuJq

B.C. mill closures hinder reforestation efforts, with long-term consequences

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Extreme climate change destruction has become a spectator event. Beachgoers enjoying a cocktail 🍹 while the planet burns ❤️‍🔥. Can the level of concern drop any lower 🤦🏻‍♂️? #climatecrisis #climatechange

“If we continue on the current path … we are basically playing Russian roulette with humanity.” — Yoshua Bengio, professor of computer science, University of Montreal in-sights.ca/2026/07/28/w...

Is it a leftist policy to want universal healthcare, justice, equality, and fair treatment for everyone? In that case, all the people I consider friends are leftists. Some of them are even far left because they believe very strongly in those ideals.

MIT Technology Review’s annual list of ten breakthrough technologies includes innovations that appear entirely beneficial, but others carry the potential for serious harm. in-sights.ca/2026/07/26/p...

Because Carney’s Liberal government is working to promote fossil-fuel production. Canadians should not expect it to encourage sales of affordable electric vehicles—or the transition away from gasoline. That is unfortunate. in-sights.ca/2026/07/26/e...

“When a prison camp opens in your town… When a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom… When the president* destroys what’s left of the Constitution… They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” @aoc.bsky.social

The vast majority of our outlets are owned by right-wing billionaires and last night our most prominent political reporters spent an hour chuckling along with a clearly senile Republican president as he insulted them incoherently. Here's why our media has a liberal bias problem.

Environmental researcher and political scientist Duncan McLaren wrote a blog post titled, “Must we wait for the end of the world to rediscover care and repair?” in-sights.ca/2026/07/25/w...

For some people, climate change is a hot topic and a painful reality. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Technical capability is advancing quickly. The danger is not science itself. It is the willingness to deploy immensely powerful technologies before we understand their consequences—or have established who will remain in control. in-sights.ca/2026/07/25/w...

A typical casual worker at American McDonald’s may average 20 hours a week at $14 an hour. The person would have to labour for more than fourteen centuries to equal what the McDonald’s CEO received in a single year. in-sights.ca/2026/07/22/c...

Electricity from each megawatt of capacity at BC Hydro dams has fallen by roughly one-third. Hydropower has been abundant enough to meet British Columbia’s needs, but drought and low reservoir levels have exposed the danger of relying too heavily on a single source. in-sights.ca/2026/07/22/a...

PM Carney has caused his government to serve oil barons rather than people who elected it. Danielle Smith made that choice long ago. Now David Eby has decided that political and financial rewards matter more than a livable planet and the welfare of future generations. in-sights.ca/2026/07/20/c...

“Just because it looks muddy … doesn’t mean that it isn’t a paradise for endangered and migratory species.”

Of gravy trains and gravy planes: nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

I recently stumbled across an American website: A Moveable Feed from buttondown.com. It promises to deliver “Blunt, funny takes on today’s biggest stories from a recovering DC insider.” This week, the website published Smoke, Fire, And What We Pretend Not To See. in-sights.ca/2026/07/18/w...

In the eyes of Canada’s security establishment, listening to dissenting voices and engaging opponents were not signs of democratic strength. They were grounds for surveillance. in-sights.ca/2026/07/17/r...

Credit unions have been merging into regional institutions for years. It rarely makes the news; no single merger is much of a story. But something changes, slowly and less visibly: the distance between the institution and the community it serves widens. in-sights.ca/2026/07/15/m...

Older folks will remember when Freedom Riders and civil rights activists were murdered, clubbed, beaten, attacked by police dogs, blasted with high-pressure fire hoses, jailed, humiliated, and subjected to almost every indignity that segregationists could devise. in-sights.ca/2026/07/15/r...

Graham's obituary is a surprise - came before long awaited one for Mitch McConnell and Donlad Trump. It's a great opportunity to attribute properly the viral quote misattributed often to Mark Twain. It's a rephrasing of a line written by Clarence Darrow.

A personal story involving a friendship of more than 55 years. They’re closing a chapter and I am saddened. in-sights.ca/2026/07/12/v...