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Budget?WhatBudget? Lock’EmAllUpVille Yes that’s right. 200. As in 200 ridings. From Ms. O’Malley’s Liveblog (of the proMedia-packed committee room): 11:34 Kady: Whoa: According to Mayrand, those 800 (election misdirection) complaints cover *200* ridings. That’s — somewhat staggering, actually. I would’ve guessed maybe 100 ridings max. Doesn’t mean all the allegations

BigWheelKeepOn Turnin’Ville The blossoms are out. And they are white down Arbutus Valley way. So. With the wind up, will it be blizzard on the way home? Might have to listen to the traffic report before I leave tonight. .

. ….A Relentless ‘War’ Campaigner. Really? Skirmishes, maybe. But has she been in, and/or and won any real campaign ‘wars’? PoMo 1996? Pt. Grey 2011? Vancouver 2005? SFU 1986? Helijet Pad 2003? Sheesh. _____ And, now, without further ado….Billy Bragg!…Cause he knows we ‘don’t need no war campaigners ’round here….Oh,

AllTheExpectationsThatCan BeLoweredVille Ords O’ The Day…. Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Meeting No. 30 Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Allegations of Wrong-Doing during the 41st General Election Witnesses Elections Canada 1) Marc Mayrand, Chief Electoral Officer 2) Rennie Molnar, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer 3)

AllTheConflagurationThatFits OutrageVille So. Suddenly we must deal with Translink fare evasion again. Right now! Either by stringing up every kid without a ticket that hops on the 99 B-Line through the back door. And/or. By reverse engineering every single Skytrain station, bus stop and public washroom with turnstiles. **** But

GettingSubjective ToSeeThingsObjectivelyVille Last weekend Dave sent a whole lot of us off on a chase to find Christy Clark’s FedConOp #1. And it turned out that that person, who was part of the Three Amigos from Harper Land, was hired just three days after the BC Liberal Party selected the

AndTheCircleGoesRound AndRoundVille Came out of the woods by the daycares this morning. As I waited to cross the street while the German SUV’s dropped off the highschool kids who live 600 yards away I noticed one of the young guys I work with. He was carrying his little girl, a

AllTheRealAnalysisThatFits SlivervilleTimesVille …Go Read Mr. Beer N’ Hockey. Honestly. His screed starts like this: I live way the f*ck out here with John Van Dongen. He could be my MLA for all I know… …Van Dongen, as everybody who lives in my once heavily treed province knows, jumped from one

. . In a word…… Yes. (stay with it through to the last verse) _____ And in case you are new here and don’t know what Mr. Hansard and his lot have done to me and mine…Well, you could start, maybe, I dunno…How about….Here? .

TurningBackTheClock ToDayOneVille On the weekend, following up on a post by Dave at the Galloping Beaver, NVG and I identified a HarperCon Operative who went to work Christy much earlier than the newly-arrived Glimmer Twins (ie. Mr. Boessenkool & Ms. McIntyre)…. But, it turns out that a former Director of

AllMayNotBeAsItSeems WhoCaresVille The 5 W’s of John van Dongen’s floor crossing… The Who? Well, ya, he clearly took aim at the (not)Premier….But do not forget the following…. Because while I unequivocally agree that a public inquiry is fully warranted, the $6 million thing was most definitely NOT hatched on her

. …During the BC Liberal Party Leadership Campaign That Christy Clark Won? Yesterday, North Van’s Grumps and I worked together to follow up on a post by Dave at the Galloping Beaver in which he dug deep into the ties between a couple of FedCon-associated PR firms that have worked

NeverSayNever ButJustKeepSayin’Somethin’Ville Remember that old saw about ‘Popsicle Stands’ and the politicians that can’t run ’em? Well. In the case of first the Evergreen Line, and now all other new Translink initiatives, it looks like the (not) Premier is bringing the old story back to life. Only, in this case

AllFOI’sAreNot EquivalentVille Ian Reid, has already done a lot of digging into the process that led to the aborted attempt to shoehorn a Casino-Industrial-Complex right next to the Devil-Horned, Re-Roofed Stadium that is not named ‘Telus’. And he is still digging. Most recently, Ian has been trying to find out

YouKeepOnUsingThatWord,’Liberal’ IDoNotThinkItMeansWhatYouSayItMeansVille Look. We all know that the ‘BC Liberal’ Party is a misnomer. In that they really are ‘Liberal In Name Only’ (ie. ‘LINO’). Which is, on the surface at least, fair enough if they are a true coalition of ‘Everybody That Is Not A Dipper’, which makes for

WatchYourP’sAndQ’s AndTheirI’sAndP’sVille Dave, over at the Galloping Beaver, has a must read story connecting those dots. Go and read it. Right now. (I’ll comment and follow-up, with a little help from NVG’s own public data base hard-rock mining, later) _____ And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that

IfFridayIsTrashDay WhatTheHeckIsSaturdayAnywayVille Me, I reckon it’s the latter. Here is Gordon Hoekstra and Aleesha Harris’ report from the night desk of the VSun: VANCOUVER — B.C. Premier Christy Clark named Richmond-Steveston MLA John Yap to replace Harry Bloy as minister of state for multiculturalism, on Saturday. “I’m humbled and truly

There’sNoUkeLike CoverUkeVille First, the Original, in all it’s baroque splendour…. And, now, the Uke Cover, in all its barooky, kazookiest splendourifourisiosity (stay with it through the first 90 seconds or so…it’s worth it)… It really is a crazy, mixed-up world we live in. ______ As always, the Uke Peg Head

ThereAreSomeThingsYouReally ShouldNotMissVille This is just a quick note to thank Stephanie from Vcr for slapping some sense into me. Not that Stephanie knows she did so. Or even knows that I exist for that matter. **** Stephanie from Vcr is one of Mr. Beer ‘N Hockey’s finest and fastest witted

AllTheChichesterCathedralsThatFit BigCityColumnistVille “…In the news conference (to kick-off the Bye-Byes), the Premier was asked about $30-million in funding that Metro Vancouver mayors want to complete a raft of transit-related initiatives. The mayors had said that unless the province passed legislation allowing them to raise that money through means such as