Oh boy, will Nathan Cullen ever learn? Yesterday I tried to warn him that his toxic Trudeau hate was making him sound like a Con, and look like a maniac.And that in Quebec, his assault on the thousands of SNC-Lavalin workers in that province, and the thousands of others all over Canada
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Warren Kinsella: What #LavScam means, in five points
It’s been going on for more than a week, now, and the outlines of it are already seen. Five ways in which it is leaving, and will leave, an impact: Indigenous people. I am the proud father to an amazing indigenous young woman; I work with First Nations across Canada.
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Podcasting – My First Ever Appearance
You can listen here Where do I get my pundit card? Sidebar: does that pundit card automatically make me histrionic as Rachel Curran, or do I have to work up to that level of utter lunacy and out-of-touchedness? The amazing people at the Canadia Podcast brought me on air today
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam shocker coming
Hearing a poll is coming. Hearing that the pollster started fielding before #LavScam erupted. Hearing the pollster was also in the field for two days afterwards – and caught plenty of the negative reactions Canadians are feeling. Hearing that there has been a significant shift – and not in a
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Just Who Was The DPA Enacted To Help?
If you watch the following interview with law professor Jennifer Quaid, you will find her take on the Omnibus Bill provision for the DPA (deferred prosecution agreement) that SNC-Lavalin salivates over very, very disturbing. Start at about the 1:40 mark. The big ‘reveal’ is at the 4-minute mark, when Quaid
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Political Mushroom Cloud
An atomic usually bomb expands its destructive range outward, so it is perhaps understandable that Mr. Trudeau does not yet realize he has unleashed a weapon of mass destruction whose fallout will eventually land back on him. Recommend this Post
Continue readingMontreal Simon: SNC-Lavalin and the Death of the NDP in Quebec
In my last post I explained why the Con attack on SNC-Lavalin and its workers was going to cost them most of the few seats they have in Quebec.And will almost certainly hand Justin Trudeau another majority. Which needless to say would please me greatly, except for one thing. It would
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sounds Like A Version Of Victim-Blaming To Me
I doubt that this performance will endear Mr. Trudeau to women or indigenous communities: Recommend this Post
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Dear PMO, cabinet, MPs, et al.
Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her speak. Let her
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Breaking News! Wilson-Raybould Has Resigned
You can read her official announcement here. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Where Is The Public Good In All Of This?
H/t Greg Perry His fulminations about the need for a public inquiry notwithstanding, it should surprise no one that Conservative leader Andrew Scheer met with officials of SNC-Lavalin to discuss the criminal charges they were facing. But to simply accuse him of his obvious hypocrisy and dismiss the controversy of
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Andrew MacDougall: The Haze Runner
If you observe politics long enough, you will witness moments of pure political amnesia. Its almost as if the commentator/pundit forgets their own past in a moment of faux moral outrage meant to generate clicks, or set up their next serving of revisionist political pablum in Maclean’s, or the National
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Shabby Con Media and the Fake Scandal
When the Globe first published its anonymously sourced report alleging PMO interference in the SNC-Lavalin case, the media made Jody Wilson-Raybould look like a martyr.Praising her to high heaven, for daring to stand up to the Trudeau government they hate so much.And drawing a direct line between her alleged refusal to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: SNC-Lavalin: Scandal Or Much Ado About Almost Nothing?
I suppose it's the price I must pay for trying to maintain a daily blog, that yesterday I should write about how Nicholas Kristof called us the "moral leader of the free world."And today I should be writing about this story.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office attempted to press Jody Wilson-Raybould when she
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Habits Die Hard
In some ways, it is hard to believe that the old Liberal propensity for corrupt coziness with corporate chums has reasserted itself so quickly, barely three years into Mr. Trudeau’s tenure. In other ways, it is not hard to believe at all. After all, old habits die hard. Th latest
Continue readingIn-Sights: Twitter bits
The final item may present a clue to the current state of British Columbia’s energy market. It’s hard to believe we came to this only through the sheer stupidity of our policy makers.Liberals didn't sell BC's publicly owned #BCHydro, they gave …
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The final item may present a clue to the current state of British Columbia’s energy market. It’s hard to believe we came to this only through the sheer stupidity of our policy makers.
Liberals didn’t sell BC’s publicly owned #BCHydro, they gave it away. https://t.co/i5lzREUAsa#bcpoli pic.twitter.com/ifOSyhSYup
— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) April 15, 2016
.@VaughnPalmer analyzes #BCHydro‘s financial status with not one mention of IPPs. #bcpoli https://t.co/i5lzREUAsa pic.twitter.com/pjv6bfp9dV
— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) April 14, 2016
We don’t have commitment liability for FY 2016 but in first 9 months, BC Hydro’s term debts were up another $1.5 billion. #bcpoli
— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) April 15, 2016
#BCHydro presently offering to pay IPPs 205% of the average price at which BCH sold power to heavy industry in Q3 (Dec 2015) #bcpoli
— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) April 15, 2016
#BCHydro is responsible for transmission network upgrade (TNU) costs so the price paid IPPs is just part of its energy costs. #bcpoli
— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) April 15, 2016
IPP contracts provide for annual price escalations and contracts #BCHydro has signed extend for up to 56 years into the future. #bcpoli
— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) April 15, 2016
BC Hydro’s obligation to independent power producers (March 2015) was $12,200 for each man, woman and child in BC. #bcpoli @VaughnPalmer
— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) April 15, 2016
For my immediate family, that’s an obligation to IPPs of $207,400. #bcpoli
— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) April 15, 2016
In @christyclarkbc‘s 5 years as Premier, average price paid #IPP rose 15x rate of increase under Campbell. #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/fNFqCqtH3b
— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) April 16, 2016
SNC-Lavalin, a favourite of @christyclarkbc and #BCLiberals. Gee, wonder why. #bcpoli https://t.co/IbXSQoh3qo pic.twitter.com/Z6Dgjnnzvw
— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) April 15, 2016
In-Sights: Twitter bits
The final item may present a clue to the current state of British Columbia’s energy market. It’s hard to believe we came to this only through the sheer stupidity of our policy makers. Liberals didn't sell BC's publicly owned #BCHydro, they gave it away. https://t.co/i5lzREUAsa#bcpoli pic.twitter.com/ifOSyhSYup — Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell)
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: More Misinformation Than Facts on Mount Polley Disaster
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Kevin Logan accompanied Alexandra Morton on a trip to the disaster area shortly after the tailing pond disaster hit. Mystery Film on Quesnel Lake! They were the first to really bring us any pertinent information on what happened and what the impacts were from possibly the worst
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Telly exclusive on SNC Lavalin???? #nlpoli
Screaming headline across the top of the front page of the Saturday Telly: SNC-Lavalin shut out of Hydro-Quebec projects And right underneath, the claim that it is a Telegram exclusive. That would be right except for the fact someone else reported it months ago. The problems first surfaced in April,
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