Communications’RUs Clark’sVilleStation Rob Shaw, writing in the VT-C after talking to UVIC poli-sci guy Norman Ruff, has come up with an interesting angle on the document-dump Friday appointment of Christy…
AllThePollsThatFit BigBoldPABsterBacklashVille ….A Vote For The NDP? The VSun’s Doug Ward is first out of the gate with the latest poll numbers. Here’s his lede: VANCOUVER — B.C. Premier Christy…
IfTommyDWereAliveToday WouldTheHarpoonsDestroyHimTooVille? In a good way….. As was explained by citizen Terry Champion in a fantastic letter to the Edmonton Journal a couple of days ago: “Statistics for 2009 compiled…
StopTheSemanticsAnd GetOnWithTheTestingVille Alexandra Morton has started her dissection of the Cohen hearings and it makes for compelling reading. One of the things, amongst many, that she wrote about today that…
AllThePickingThatFits SelfTaughtVille Back when I was a younger whipper-snapper and I was kinda/sorta fighting with my department head for all the usual reasons that young whipper-snapper junior faculty do, I…
WhosePremierhipIsItAnyway DamageControlVille ….Here Comes The PAB-Bots New Leader Just in time for Christmas. Rob Shaw in the V T-C has the story: ….Athana Mentzelopoulos, (Christy) Clark’s deputy minister in charge…
TheRealMeaningOf ChristmasVille littler e. had been counting down the days for the last month or so. Not to mention C. And me? Well, as you might expect, I worked on…
DiscussionAndDebateAlone WillNotWinVille Boris had an important post up over at The Beaver a couple of days ago. Essentially, he concluded that the latest from the fine folks from ‘Campaign Research’,…
NewsMyMomAndMyMom-In-Law CanUseVille Andy Stephen was his name. I remember him from when I was a kid, but mostly from the TeeVee though, especially his turns with Dame Ida given that,…
. …..No One. First a representative sampling from one of the stenographic proMedia news reports on the ‘event’: COQUITLAM, B.C. – The B.C. Conservatives have taken their first step toward…
NoDutyCalls SecretsAndAnchorTiesVille The identification of the Canadian company apparently attempting to keep their duty-waived, German-built ferry a mediablack-cloaked super secret appears to have been solved. By the newly-minted dynamic maritime…
TheLINOsCanFightCityHall TheBigMarshmallowVille Well, well, well…. It looks like nobody can blame Lotusland’s mayor Gregor Robertson for the fact that Terry Fox is still being forced to run for Budweiser and…
Duty? WeDon’tNeedNoStinkin’DutyVille Remember those dock-destroying, fuel-guzzling ferries that British Columbians paid the Germans to build to make sure British Columbians didn’t. Build them, I mean. Well. Way back when (i.e.…
. …Bright Sunny Days….Dark Scary Nights Very scary nights indeed. Because Canada’s House of Commons is now closed. Which means that Mr. Stephen Harper’s comedically nonsensical army of institution-destroying boweevils…
AllTheInfluenceThatFits HedgingAllTheBetsVille Historically, Mr. Patrick Kinsella mostly backs winners. Both at the track, as Sean Holman noted some time ago…. “…Patrick Kinsella has become a member of the esquestrian classes.…
…Lies In The Darkest Of Hearts More on what we reckon Mr. Frum is really up to to follow…. .
AllTheEmptyLedesThatFit WurlitzerVille From the mouth of the (not)Premier: “Premier Christy Clark admits the global economy and the HST referendum are factors which have delayed a final decision on a site…
PuncturingAllTheContinuums AndScramblingAllTheEggsVille Specifically. How, precisely, can Rob Schneider possibly be both himself and…. Margaret Atwood? ______ I mean, Sean Cullen I can almost handle, but Mr. Schneider?…..No way, man. .
ChronicObstructionistPrevaricationDisease BlownOutAlveoliVille Environment Minister blames the ABC*: “Canada is formally withdrawing from the Kyoto accord, Environment Minister Peter Kent said Monday. The decision to do so will save the government…
TheUnreasonableSideOf ExtremismVille Well, well, well, it would appear that Mr. David Frum has decided that former Liberal MP Marlene Jennings is the real evil-doer in Gazebo-Gate: “….In 2010, a former…
