The former Attorney General, Geoff Plant has a blog! He has some advice today For Mr. Von DingDong(en). Dear John, (I know, Lol, that’s been done before, but bear with me!) I understand that one of the issues which caused you to leave the BC Liberal caucus and party is
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Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Behind the ostensible government
Before Gordon Campbell, the BC Liberal Party had been roused from the near dead and invigorated by Gordon Wilson, then a youthful populist leader. However, business interests chose Wilson’s party as the vehicle best suited to replace the discredited Social Credit coalition. Led by Patrick Kinsella and Gordon Gibson, the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the evolution of labour rights under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms can be traced directly to anti-labour overreach by right-wing governments – and how Brad Wall seems determined to push the limits yet again even as his first effort proved unconstitutional. For further reading…– The two
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: I-RO-NY [ ahy-ruh-nee ]
The REPLAY below from September 2010 seems particularly relevant after Jonathan Fowlie exposed the story of HST pamphlets going from printer to shredder by the truckload. The original waste is bad. Worse is demonstration that unprincipled politicians will throw good money after bad if there is a chance to hide
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: More Campbell associates break lobbying rules
In March 2008, Gordon Campbell intimate Ken Dobell plead guilty to violating British Columbia’s lobbying legislation. Dobell had retired as deputy minister to the premier in 2005 and then busied himself as a lobbyist and beneficiary of lucrative patro…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Isolation in the midst of a crowd
Campbell and David McLean
The bubble of power mentioned in the preceding story suffocated Gordon Campbell. Gradually, he became isolated, surrounded chiefly by people desperate to please. Track his administration from 2001; it began with positive so…
Continue readingAmusing ‘oil orgy’ surprises Gordon Campbell. Disrupts UK energy summit.
‘Sexy’ environmentalists Peter Bearder and Emily Coats strip down as Brit and Canadian respectively, and douse each other with oil while embracing, kissing and generally fooling around. I’ll say this for the Brits: they sure know how to put on a s…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Dear Greenpeace, re Tzeporah Berman (RERUN)
Tzeporah Berman was at Capilano University Wednesday evening performing at the North Shore Credit Union Centre for the Performing Arts. Her act was promised to be an exploration of the past and future of the environmental movement. In view of her contr…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: A crime family depends on its enablers – rerun
I quoted from a Lewis Carroll poem The Walrus and the Carpenter in a comment thread at the Vancouver Observer. My obvious suggestion was that Tzeporah Berman had been like oysters that naively went for a stroll on the beach to be consumed by their ushe…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: A sad, embarrassing moment that cheapens an honour
Kudos to the Times Colonist editorialists for an honest examination of the Ordure of British Columbia fiasco:
“…Campbell’s honour is premature for another reason — quite simply, it breaks the rules.
A sitting politician cannot be nominated. The…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Crimes in progress (another 2010 article brought forward)
News item:
British Columbia Liberals announce the new Clean Energy Act sets the foundation for a new future of electricity self-sufficiency.
Definition:
Self-sufficiency: The ability to satisfy one’s basic needs without outside help.
News item:
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Continue readingAn Unprecedented Friday Afternoon Document Dump, cont…
A message from BC. Last Friday in BC, Christy Clark announced that there will be no fall election. This amounts to a bloodless Coup of our fair province. Clark has no mandate. She is unelected. She sailed into power by the grace and deep pockets of the same group of suspects that may . . . → Read More: An Unprecedented Friday Afternoon Document Dump, cont…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: The unworthy are poor company for the worthy
CBC reports:
Former premier Gordon Campbell is among 14 people soon to be awarded the honour of the Order of British Columbia.
The office of B.C. Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point announced the 2011 recipients Friday, noting that Campbell would be r…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: We can, but we won’t (2010 post worth revisiting)
I recall voting Liberal in the 2001 provincial election and for years now, I’ve been wondering what led me to that regretful choice. Perhaps, I suffered early onset of age-related intellectual impairment but I prefer to believe there were other causes…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Good riddance
At long last, B.C.’s HST has met its end. Vaughn Palmer reminds us why, while Iglika Ivanova looks at what comes next.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- In case anybody held out hope that the Harper Cons might follow up on their residential school apology with some concrete action to change First Nations relations for the better, here’s the predictable result: a…
Continue readingAnother Example of How Sucking Up To Stevie Spiteful Pays Off
In spades! Betcha Loose Larry Cannon must stamping his widdle feet somewhere. No senate seat; no diplomatic post. Perhaps Stevie is catching enough flack for sending loser Harpercon candidates to the senate, so he figured, let’s give a disgraced ex-premier a diplomatic post –and we’ll make it someone from a provincial Liberal party too so . . . → Read More: Another Example of How Sucking Up To Stevie Spiteful Pays Off
Continue readingHarper Valley: Big Bwana – A Song for the Stephen Harpers of the World (including you, Gordon Campbell)
Writen and performed by Wednesday Jones.
Filed under: Political Humour Tagged: big bwana, Gordon Campbell, song, Stephen Harper, youtube
Harper Valley: Tales From The Shelter – 54
We sit around and talk about things we need but Gordie Campbell took away from us. “Shirley” is elderly and needs orthotics as her arches are collapsing and her feet become very painful. That need was ripped from the books of the Ghost of Gordy Campbell Present and it will cost her $800 (with the […]
Pop The Stack: The Abdication of Gordon I
BC Finance Minister Colin Hansen was talking this evening to the always awesome Stephen Quinn on CBC Radio and said something funny. He said that they had to suspend the 15% tax cut that His Highness Premier Gordon Campbell had announced just weeks ago because they were in an “interregnum period” between leaders and shouldn’t […]