Welcome to the dawning deja vu day of the bravely rebranded British Columbia. Yes, Toto, you're not back in dust bowl Kansas, but awake in the new reality of a BC dust bowl to come, if returned premier Christy Clark and her claque of counter-Evolutionaries manage to ram their "mandate" through the province's Legislature.
You see, Christy and her crusty coterie would have us all whisked back to the times of WAC Bennett; where leather-necked, hard hewn he-men hacked their way through primordial forests, and o'er top the perilous crag to cut timber and dig ore; venturing forth to roughshod tame the wild, and harness mighty Nature herself into Man's service.
At least, that's more or less the nation-building narrative Clark would have us believe; the truth of the matter is depressingly more prosaic.
Listen. Hear.
Christy and the friends of Gordo the former, our near universally unloved previous political Judas are merely to continue the pillage of what remains of the province's once peerless public energy sector, as they simultaneously destroy our environment. It's a neat trick, promising to literally obliviate our past, while effectively obliterating our future in a fell, if four years prolonged blow.
One of the many dark Voldemortian efforts feeding the BCLiberals false legend of bringing good things to light here is the infamous Smart Meter program. Foisted upon us with neither word of warning, nor debate in the rump Assemblage in Victoria by "he whose name BCLiberals are bade never spake," the billion dollar boondoggle is worse than irretrievable folly, it's dangerous and probably illegal.
Sharon Noble is an activist with the Coalition to Stop Smart Meters, a grassroots group that has opposed the intrusion of BC's new standard of Hydro power metering for the past two years. Last month, they filed a class-action suit against the utility, citing broken promises and alleged customer intimidation by BC Hydro regarding installation of the devices, and a litany of health and privacy concerns the devices create.
Sharon Noble in the first half.
And; while the NSA unwarranted spying story rages in the United States, what's Canada's New Government doing here? Are Canada's telephone and internet providers similarly tasked by secretive homegrown spook agencies to monitor all our calls, while counting too every keystroke Canadians make? Short answer: Probably.
Dr. Michael Geist is professor of law at the University of Ottawa, where he too holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. He is too the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including: 2010's Kroeger Award for Policy Leadership, and the Public Knowledge IP3 Award; the 2009 Les Fowlie Award for Intellectual Freedom from the Ontario Library Association; and 2008's Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award among others. Michael Geist's syndicated column, 'Law Bytes' is featured in the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen among other publications, and he's also served as editor for the books,'"Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda', and 'In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law'. He's also the author of the eponymous blog, MichaelGeist.ca, where he last week published the article, 'Who Is Watching the Watchers?: Ten Questions About Canada's Secret Metadata Surveillance Activities.'
Michael Geist and electronic cloak and dagger Canadian style in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of what's going on on the streets of our city, and beyond. But first, Sharon Noble and the wacky world of BC Hydro's WiFi Smart meter program.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
This week: Around the country, across the continent, and throughout the once-called 'Free World' the Smart Meter and its variants is appearing, bulldozing its way onto the walls and into wireboxes the world over, whether welcomed or not. But, what are these devices; and why are people worried?
Brian Thiesen is Chairman of the Kamloops chapter of Interior Smart Meter Awareness, an affiliate of No BC Smart Meters, and he joins us in the first half.
Listen. Hear.
And; Last month, Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez, a Zapotec community activist in San José Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico was gunned down with his cousin, Rosalinda Dionicio Sánchez, and brother Andres Vásquez Sánchez as they drove home. Bernardo knew his life was in danger; others opposing foreign mining companies in his ancestral territories have died violently. Bernardo recently told a Canadian journalist what he thought the crux of the growing tensions between Canadian listed, Fortuna Silver and locals was.
Dawn Paley is a Vancouver-based journalist who has written for a multitude of newspapers and magazines in Canada. She has worked in radio and television too, her reports featuring on Democracy Now!, Free Speech Radio News, and CBC Radio. Dawn is also a contributing editor with The Dominion - Canada's grassroots newsmagazine, and is a co-founder of the Vancouver Media Co-op. She is also a media educator, teaching community journalism workshops and online journalism, most recently with the Alliance for Global Justice.
Dawn Paley from south of south of the border in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of the goings on going on on the streetz of the city and beyond.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
This week: The tax the less-than-dearly-departed former premier Gordon Campbell sprung on the populace after his narrow Spring 2010 election victory is now history. Or is it? You may notice, nearly every time you open your wallet, 14% of your cash still flies off to who knows where, to pay for who knows what. So, did BC kill this thing, or what?
Brad Slade is a long-time labour activist and served as the Regional Organizer for the South Island and Gulf Islands with Fight The HST campaign. Brad Slade and putting the stake finally through the heart of the HST beast in the first half.
And; listening in on Victoria's Smart Meter rally.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will not be appearing on the show tonight, as she makes the arduous journey home from the hinterland of Vancouver Island's retirement Mecca, Qualicum Beach. So, first up, Brad Slade and whither the future of the HST, and what for we who pay it still?
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
Between 100-150 Victorians came out Sunday to voice their opposition to the unilateraly imposed installation of so-called 'Smart Meters' by the publicly owned power utility, BC Hydro. The meters are a hot-button issue with health, privacy, and government accountability activists, and the evidence backing the objections of these disparate groups grows stronger by the day. That may be the reason Hydro is moving at break-neck speeds to have the, estimated, $750 million project. Irksome too, this program was slid in by the governing BC Liberal party with minimal public consultation, and excluded oversight by the BC Utilities Commission, whose function is to hold the Crown corporation to account.
With municipal elections looming, and a provincial poll predicated by law before next summer, this could be a paradigm-shifting issue for British Columbia.
This week: La Esmerelda, the Chilean navy's tall ship, sailed into Victoria yesterday despite protests that its presence here is an affront to the unknown numbers of men and women taken aboard her during Augusto Pinochet's rule of terror to be tortured and in some cases killed by his fascist thugs.
The current government in Chile has never acknowledged properly the role La Esmerelda played in the vicious oppression of the Pinochet regime, nor has it apologized to the victims or their surviving family members.
Today, down at Ogden Point, a group of Victorians determined they would not let the occasion of the visit go unobserved. Marking the Torture Ship's stay in Victoria. And, Victorian activist Zac Braciszewicz was at the demo. Zac is a Buddhist practitioner on a hunger strike in protest because, as he put it;
"I got tired of the state of resource distribution, and how everything is organized into private profits. All we see are the same politicians making the same cuts to the same programs, and this isn’t just Victoria or Canada-wide — this is global." Zac Braciszewicz too in the first half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with what's going on on the streets of our fair city and beyond.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
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