the Post's business section editors are hardly neutral...... why do they make a bigger stink about the Tides Foundation than they do about US money being poured into e.g. "Ethical Oil" and similar 'foundations', and the tsunami of foreign capital pouring into the BC Liberals? 

Well, we know WHY they don't want to talk about it huh?  They're part of the same bunch of people who view politics as an obstacle to their own wealth, rather than as an instrument of democracy (which they loathe)