What the Bleep is Going On Here?

Mair, Rafe

ISBN 10: 1550174584 / ISBN 13: 9781550174588

Published by Harbour Pub Company, Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada, 2008

About this Item

First edition, first printing as evidenced by a complete number line from 1 to 5; inscribed by Rafe Mair on the half-title page: "For __, Happy music man! Rafe Mair;" some edge wear to card covers; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectable condition.

Seller Inventory # 001739

Bibliographic Details

• Title: What the Bleep is Going On Here?
• Publisher: Harbour Pub Company, Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550174584
• ISBN 13: 9781550174588
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: Canadian First.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

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.