Author: RossK

LiningUpAtTheTroughWhat’sAFormerInkStainedWretchToDoVilleSean Holman, who first broke the story of the competitive bid-free, HST info-tracts that went to BC Liberal party insiders in the Globe, now has the value-added, pdf-embedded, version up at his o…

AllTheNewNewsThat’sFittestFreelancerVilleHere’s Sean’s lede, not in PublicEye, but instead in the Globe:The B.C. government office running the province’s pro-HST campaign secretly doled out contracts to two Liberal-connected companies and a former ai…

Freedom’sJustAnotherWordForEverythingPolsDon’tWantToLoseVilleAnd why, as Sean Holman, the proprietor of PublicEye Online, who has selectively wielded FOI requests like a scalpel in the past, are British Columbia’s media and public not outraged?Last wee…

SomeSubsidiesAreMoreEqualThanOthersVilleAs we predicted some time ago, the other four billion penny-filled boot just dropped to help subsidize….errrr….facilitate Seaspan’s bid to get a shank of Steve-O’s shipbuilding pork:”The B.C. government is pr…

WhereTheReallyWildThingsAreTheRealFeverSwampsVilleI mean, how can those no good terrible, conspiratorial, cultist, jump-to-conclusion nutbars who stew in their own juices in the outer fringes of the fever swamps even begin to write things, in the absen…

….Would be to not reappoint Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond as the province’s child representative.And make no mistake, it is this government, a government currently being run by the very person who knows best about all that this government did wrong regard…

….Did the Conradian pot really call the Rupertian kettle out for being blacker than he himself could ever possibly be?RUPERT Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. There is no possible argument about his bol…

MonaLisaMustaHadTheHighwayBluesGhostOfElectricityVilleLife’s like that.Sure is..

TakeATripWithMeMagicSwirlingShipVilleOne of my favourite musical DIY stories of all time is Sarah Harmer’s album ‘Songs For Clem’.Which was a bunch of stuff she originally recorded just for her Dad.I’ve been working on something similar for my Dad, too…

AllTheRealReportersThatFitPublicEyeRadioVille….Sunday morning @ 8:30am on Public Eye radio, which is broadcast/streamed on CFAX 1070 from Victoria and a bunch of other places around the province.Mr. Oberfeld, who was a real reporter’s reporter, elect…

ShutOutOnlineAnti-SocialMediaConsultVilleSean Holman, through an FOI request, came up with some interesting traffic stats on the HSTinBC.ca (mis?) information website.In case you missed it, all the trumpeting of said (mis?) information is being finance…

…And Then Tells Him What To Say.And, bizarrely, Mr. Baldrey appears to be proud of the fact that he gets fingered as a ‘friendly’.How do we know this?Because Mr. Baldrey actually told Mr. Jon McComb of CKNW as much yesterday, July 13th.On the air…….

AllThePoppingButtonsThatFitDadVilleIt would appear that my job as an impresario, which started with this, is now done.Why?Because my oldest kid, who now busks for real, on her own, at a not-so secret island location watched the first $20 bill, ever, fl…

AllTheGougingThatFitsSatirizeThisVilleIn the wake of the recent revelations about BC Ferries’ Bossman David Hahn’s gold-plated anchor around our collective necks, we were surprised to find that we’d missed this little item:Please note: Any and all atte…

AllTheIndignationThatDoesNotComeEvenCloseToFittingVilleWell, well, well….Premier Christy Clark is hopping mad. Not about rampaging thugs this time. Instead, it is about BC Ferries Bossman David Hahn. Or, to be more precise, Mr. Hahn’s guaranteed, gol…

MayAllYourJamsForeverBeEconoVilleProbably the worst of time amongst all the best of times was the one time the Motel Slant-Six appeared in the Acton St. driveway in the middle of weirdly sweltery Berkeley flats night.My editor was behind the wheel with…

…..If she doesn’t go to the polls, for real, this fall.______Pod will show up here, soon.’Twas actually more like 62.5%, as a third member of panel out of four kinda/sorta went half way there..

Conflict?WeDon’tNeedNoStinkin’ConflictVilleRobin Mathews has a very good piece up at Mary’s wherein he, as someone who was in court nearly everyday, gives his opinion on how the 6 million dollar deal went down, what it really meant for both the accused…

AllTheMilitancyThatFitsTrueIronyVilleWhen The Tyee’s Katie Hyslop asked The Province’s Editor-In-Chief Wayne Moriarty to comment on the BC College of Teachers’ response to Dan Murphy’s ‘Mr. Mitler’ cartoon depicting a likeness of Adolf Hitler as a sub…

….Do The Comments Have It?In my last post, I explained why I have decided to turn on the ‘comment moderation’ feature here which means that you will have to wait for your comments to appear.This is not something I do lightly because I honestly believ…