What the Bleep is Going on Here? [Paperback]

Rafe Mair (Author)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Harbour; 1 edition (April 22 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1550174584
ISBN-13: 978-1550174588
Product Dimensions: 22 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm
Shipping Weight: 399 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #803,877 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Lawyer, politician, radio broadcaster--and crusader! That's Rafe Mair. Even at 75 he is still fighting to save the planet, this country, this province, the Pacific salmon, our public health care and our electoral system. He castigates lawyers for cashing in on the compensation to aboriginals abused in the residential schools, slaps the wrists of stockbrokers who are creaming their profits even as their clients go broke and he weighs in on football team owners who expect taxpayers to pay for their playpens. He has the temerity to propose knocking down a few more trees in Stanley Park so that people can actually walk between them, and establishing new rules that prevent fights in hockey games. When Mair looks out over the horizon, he even has advice for George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin. To top it off, he invites his readers to be "happy in agreement with him and angry as hell in disagreement." There are sparks flying from the pages of this book.

About the Author

Rafe Mair has been a dominant voice in the arena of Canadian broadcasting and print journalism for a quarter of a century, having won the 1994 Michener Media Award for public benefit, the Hutchison Award for Lifetime Achievement in BC Journalism, in addition to the Broadcast Hall of Fame. His previous books include The Last Cast; Canada: Is Anyone Listening?; Rants, Raves and Recollections and Still Ranting. Rafe currently writes a column for The Tyee and Opinion 250: The Voice of the North. On November 7, 2005, Rafe was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He lives in Lions Bay, BC, with his wife Wendy and his chocolate lab Chauncey.

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5.0 out of 5 stars It's never too late to fight for progress, and at seventy-six, Rafe Mair won't stop., Sep 3 2008

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It's never too late to fight for progress, and at seventy-six, Rafe Mair won't stop. "What the Bleep is Going on Here?" is a collection of essays and ramblings about his opinions about the world and life in general, giving his ideas and thoughts about how the world is and how the world should be. He invites readers to read and make up their own minds whether he's right or not, citing that complete agreement is not as the world should be. "What the Bleep is Going on Here?" is highly recommended to community library collections dedicated to current events.

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