YouDon’tNeedToWatchTTebow ToVisitDrunkIslandOnAThursdayVille And the password is….. Privilege. “Attorney-General Shirley Bond says the (Cambell-Clark) government is not trying to prevent the release of more documents related to the Basi-Virk deal to…
AllTheIndemnitiesThatFit FinancialCut-OutVille Well whaddy’a know…. It turns out that the Auditor General of British Columbia, John (not the TeeVee guy) Doyle, is having a hard time getting what the court…
MemoryMattersRisingFromTheRabbitHoleVilleAfter he gives a measured account of the Toope Report, Paul Willcocks then concludes with the following:"...The legal fee issue isn’t the only remaining question. It’s still unclear, for example,…
LotuslandianCivicElectionCountdownFiveDaysToGoVilleJust to be absolutely clear here....I will vote for any candidate of any party running for any office who promises to make PavCo stop forcing the son of Betty Fox…
LotuslandianCivicElectionCountdownSixDaysAndCountingVilleThe image above, taken on Cambie just south of 29th Avenue today, Sunday Nov 13th, is most interesting on a whole lotta levels. Please note that the fine developer-type fellow…
Bacon&EggsWithBaileys&BaseballInSlivervilleWhoReallyNeedsBarbwireWithTheirLoveAnywayVilleLook.Great writing is just that.But when it is done daily, in digital form, it is great blogging pure and simple.Which is what Mr. Beer 'N Hockey has been ...
ThisElectionHasSevenDaysLeftVilleIt's always tough to gauge what is really going on down on the civic scene in Lotusland as election day approaches, internal party polls that are immediately splashed across the…
WhyWon'tThePunditsTellUsWhatTheyReallyThinkVilleSo.Mike Smyth, following up on stuff the RailGate Cultists have had nailed down for months, wants to know (or at least I think he wants to know) why (yes that's…
AllThePay-OffsThatFit(not)PremierVilleSo.Why wasn't the report written by the (not)Premier's hand-picked man that was supposed to be about the Basi-Virk Double-Down not actually about the Basi-Virk Double-Down?Norman Farrell has an excellent post…
TakeOutTheTrashDayRailGateStillRustingVilleThe Campbell-Clark government released the Toope report today, right before everyone took off for the Remembrance Day long weekend. And it most definitely does NOT deal with the Basi-Virk double-down…
TheForgottenQuadrantSouthBySouthEastVilleAfter the 2008 Civic Election results came in we were struck by how the City of Vancouver has come to vote not East-West but rather diagonally from NorthWest to SouthEast…
AllTheW'sThatFitHolmanVille.....Offline?Looks like it just might be, based on the response of the slightly less 'independent' media.The proprietor himself, S.M. Holman, has the story:"It's been just over a week since I…
SometimesTheWheelsOfJusticeGrindWeirdlyVilleDoes Bob Mackin never sleep?Apparently he stayed up late last night combing the BC Supreme Court Registry and discovered the following:......"Vancouver Supreme Court List" shows the city application [to ...
AllTheF-WordsThatFitBCPlaceVille....Including, 'Fraud'.At least when it comes to cables that work a certain retractable roof in LotuslandAllegedly.Bob Mackin has the story:"....The French headquartered cable erection company hired by a Quebec steel…
He'sTryingToTellUsSomethingAboutOurLivesToGiveUsInsightBetweenBlackAndWhiteVilleOver the next few days and weeks there will be all kinds of derision, finger-pointing and calls for recriminations over what has happened at Occupy Vancouver.But I am willi...
BangingEveryLeverInAFluorescentHazeVilleNormally, I would rather poke myself in the eyes with sharp sticks than go there. But today I had to. Go there, I mean. And I did not buy a…
EvenABlindTweetFindsAnAlbatross-ShapedAcornInTheGrassSometimesVilleSo.It would appear that the object of the BC Liberal Party's recent smear campaign is rising faster Ed Asner's helium balloon-assisted animatronic abode from the House of PIXAR.At least...
WhatFreshHellIsThisHannaBananaVille....Out To The CrossRoads To Make A Deal With The Devil?Why do I ask?Well....It would appear that, now that they actually have a decent football team that even George Plimpton…
SometimesASayingIsSomethingLessVille"There is no there there..."Gertrude Stein, Speaking of Oakland California in the '30'sC. and I used to live on the fringes of Oakland. And as a whiter-than-whitebread boy who grew…
AllTheTwittsThatFitRe-TweetVille....And wants everyone to know it.To wit:But here's the thing..... Does the CoV evn have a 905 Belt that Ms. AC can buy from the Refryers of the Re-Heated RobbFo…
