Publisher's Platform

About that ebook, "Extract: The Pipeline Wars, Vol. 1 Enbridge", Jenny and I have been working hard with designer Marc Baumgartner on finishing touches.  The ebook will be released soon on Itunes and Amazon.  I'm so proud of the book: powerful, fact-based writing in a beautiful format.

We are all so honoured the Bill McKibben gave an advanced comment on the book.  Review copies are going out next week, and we'll be announcing the date of our launch party which will be later this month.  Stay tuned.

I'm getting back to reporting and writing myself, and it's like waking up from a long sleep.  Look for more opinionated Publisher's Platform posts, as well as in-depth reporting on issues that matter from me. 

Obama took Wisconsin and Ohio last night to become forty-fourth President of the United States and the fourth Democrat in the last 100 years to be elected to a second term, pushing back a well-financed, and powerful challenger.   

After weeks of blatant lies by Romney, six billion dollars of combined spending by the candidates, Obama prevailed, shunning what the New York Times has called "the politics of deceit."  But it was an October surprise in the form of  brutal hurricane Sandy that battered the East Coast and seemed to force the country  to its senses that will be remembered in history as having decided the election.

Upon winning Obama tweeted to his followers: "We're all in this together.  That's how we campaigned, that's who we are.  Thank you."

The question now is whether Obama will use his second term to deliver on the progressive policies promised in his campaign of hope in 2008, when "Yes, we can" was the battle cry that rallied a nation after 8 dismal years of a Bush presidency.

Now he can, and one can only hope that he really will.

We’ve seen what happens when journalism is not functioning correctly: the Iraq War, the Missing Women in the Downtown Eastside, and the current PR war that government is waging against environment.

Many are under the impression that news organizations can exist without any funding from readers. The truth is, they can’t. We’re here to work for you, to tell your stories, and to spread the word. What if you were faced with a major problem and no media was there to hear your story and sound the alarm?

We want to be here for you. The VO is here to tell your story, not to repeat the views of corporations.

If NDP voters are truly serious about taking down Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, they should take a good, hard look at BC’s sole leadership candidate, Nathan Cullen.

No doubt lumped in with the other “radicals” by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government, Cullen has based his campaign on what many see as a radical idea: cooperating with the Liberal party to eliminate the possibility of another Tory majority.