Malcolm Campbell

Ottawa

Web Writer and Copy Editor at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Web Writer/Copy Editor at CBC. Opinions my own.

Articles

The RMA – a little short of evil - The Coromandel Informer

3 weeks ago | theinformer.co.nz | Malcolm Campbell

As readers will have seen it is very difficult and at times hugely expensive to start a business. Apr 2, 2025 | Malcolm Campbell | Farming and Agriculture, General, Local Government, Politics, Roading and Transport BY MALCOLM CAMPBELL As readers will have seen it is very difficult and at times hugely expensive to start a business. Readers will have seen ‘Fred’ is faced with the need to ‘buy off’ the authorities in order to stay in business.
ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS

1 month ago | theinformer.co.nz | Malcolm Campbell

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has declared a prohibited fire season for the Waikato Northern and Coromandel Zones as of 2pm on Friday, 7 March, until further notice. A prohibited fire season means no outdoor fires are allowed and all fire permits are revoked. Waikato District Manager Daryl Trim says the areas are experiencing less rainfall than usual for this time of year.
Dopamine in the tail of the striatum facilitates avoidance in threat–reward conflicts - Nature Neuroscience

1 month ago | nature.com | Zhiyu Tian |Ryunosuke Amo |Yizhou Zhuo |Malcolm Campbell |Naoshige Uchida

AbstractResponding appropriately to potential threats before they materialize is critical to avoiding disastrous outcomes. Here we examine how threat-coping behavior is regulated by the tail of the striatum (TS) and its dopamine input. Mice were presented with a potential threat (a moving object) while pursuing rewards. Initially, the mice failed to obtain rewards but gradually improved in later trials.
ENVIRONMENT MATTERS

1 month ago | theinformer.co.nz | Malcolm Campbell

DOC and TCDCFeb 26, 2025 | Malcolm Campbell | Agriculture, Boating, Community, Environment, Farming and Agriculture, General, Marine, Pets and AnimalsBY MALCOLM CAMPBELL The people in New Zealand now live in some two-level society where the productive people who actually keep the economy operating are treated as idiots, while the non-productive clever people, claim a ‘holier than thou’ attitude and claim to be promoting development and saving the environment.
ENVIRONMENT MATTERS

2 months ago | theinformer.co.nz | Malcolm Campbell
RURAL LIFE COUNTS

Jan 14, 2025 | theinformer.co.nz | Malcolm Campbell

Poison versus natural excrement (Pee and poo)Jan 14, 2025 | Malcolm Campbell | Business, Environment, Farming and Agriculture, Pets and Animals, UncategorizedRecently Juanita Packman expressed her hearty disagreement to The Informer (7 January Letters to the Editor) regarding my advocating that the Taxpayer /Ratepayer should pay for cleaning up pollution when the culprit should clean up his own mess. Of course the polluter should clean up his own mess.
You have to laugh or you would cry

Nov 18, 2024 | theinformer.co.nz | Malcolm Campbell

A major daily paper reported on 03/09/2024 that a builder had been censured for allowing people to live in a shed. The shed had toilet facilities and other normal facilities. The owner of the shed was a qualified carpenter, but the authorities involved took such a dim view of his actions that they thought his building license should be cancelled. There was no mention of the likes or dislikes of the tenants in the shed.
The Rate demands have just arrived

Nov 11, 2024 | theinformer.co.nz | Malcolm Campbell

Both Regional and District Council rates demands have arrived at the same time. The Hauraki District Council has simplified the payment system by making two payments per year instead of four payments. Both Regional and District Councils tell us we are so fortunate to be living and thriving in their respective administration areas.Here are some quotes, not in any particular order from the brochure accompanying the Waikato Regional Council rates demand. 1.
Community is critical

Sep 30, 2024 | theinformer.co.nz | Malcolm Campbell

The latest edition of The Informer, 24 September, has some lively ‘Letters to The Editor’. There are obviously some divergent views on the Coromandel Peninsula. The Peninsula is a complex area with a resident population of around 33,000 people and this population at times can swell to around 120,000. Mayor Len Salt has a difficult if not impossible task, attending to the whims and fancies of people in Thames, Coromandel, Whitianga, Tairua, Coroglen, Whangamata and everyone in between.
Impartiality necessary for a free society

Sep 23, 2024 | theinformer.co.nz | Malcolm Campbell

By Malcolm Campbell The Resource Management Act has always been open to abuse simply because one sector of the community has been put in charge of the rest of the community. For the system set up to operate in a fair manner, those in charge would have to be scrupulously honest and also completely impartial, an almost impossible situation.