I’m Sure It Is Just A Coincidence, But….
WhenBloggingMetTheMediaAlmostVille ....I couldn't help that the following two items were published within 48 hours of each other. The first item, from Alex Tsakumis, showed up in the Bloggodome on Wednesday.…
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The News Of Mr. Reid’s Imminent Demise Is Greatly (And I Mean Greatly!)…
. ....Exaggerated. Now go there. I command you. And give Ian your ideas on how to slay the boredom. _____Never done that kind of thing before....The power!.....Does this mean I…
Pacific Spirit Park Development Decision
AllTheRootsThatDon'tQuiteFitGrassVille Here's the lede from Jeff Nagle of Black Press: "Metro Vancouver has lost a court battle against the provincial government over the expropriation of part of Pacific Spirit Regional…
This Really Should Be No One’s British Columbia
AllTheCostCuttingThatMustNotStandPreyingOnTheVulnerableVille Last week we mentioned an excellent bit of investigative digging from Lindsay Kines of the Victoria Times-Colonist. Essentially, Mr. Kines reported that developmentally disabled adults ...
Ethical Oil Worked It, Hard, At the Calgary Stampede
LobbyLobbyEverywhereTheNewTexasVille As noted by McSushiboy21, based on publically available information provided by @lobbywatch: On July 9, Encana officials met with Prime MinisterStephen Harper, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and…
Placing Bets On The HST Vote…Does The Dean Have The Same Sources As…
MakingBookOnPublicTaxPolicyVille ....Mr. Beer 'N Hockey? "My money is on the Yes (to extinguish) People holding very nearly one million of those (1.6 million) votes...."Mr. Beer 'N Hockey commenting on our…
This Thing That Has Really Been Buggin’ Me….
ThatThingNotQuiteRealizedPresqueVooDooVille _______ Astroturfing is a form of advocacy often in support of a political or corporate agenda designed to give the appearance of a "grassroots" movement. The goal of such…
What Did And Did Not Happen In Abbotsford This Weekend…
RealNewsIsNoMatchForTruePoetryVille According to Mr. Beer 'N Hockey, who lives out that way, this is what happened before the big airshow even began on Friday: "I had not even said Hello…
Better Than Any Sunday Show Ever Was….
SomewhatPopularBlogFatherVille You want to know how the Congresswoman from Minnesota really captured the corn belt vote? Well, given what political discourse in North America has become, it may have less…
And Now For Some Real HST/PST News….
TheWarOfTheLINOSCoalitionDevolutionVille Did Cookie-Maker Guy just diss the Birdman? Why, yes, it would appear that is indeed so, based on an unbylined* story in The Province: If the anti-HST side wins…
Numbers Matter….
AllTheDIYMediaBaronsThatFitVille And, as BlueGal points out, her podcast with soon to be forever life partner Driftglass has been listened to by more people in the last two weeks than will…
This Is Not My British Columbia
TheBestPlaceOnEarthMustHelpThoseThatNeedItMostVille The following is the lede of an important story from Lindsay Kines in the VTimes-Colonist:Despite public statements to the contrary, the B.C. Liberal government continues to force people with…
Real Fun With Maps….
AllTheDemographicsThatFitLotuslandiaRisingVille Here's something you may or may not know, but.... I am not a real Gazetteer. And while I don't even play one on the TeeVee, I do like to…
Is There An Irony To Be Found In David Cameron’s Misspent Youth?
AllTheBadParentingThatFits?BlueBloodVille "....This is not about poverty, it's about culture. A culture that glorifies violence, shows disrespect to authority, and says everything about rights but nothing about responsibilities. In too many…
Laila Takes On The Lotusland’s Least Exclusive Club
AllTheRealNewsThatDoesn'tQuiteFitBloggodomeVille Like a number of bloggers before her, including a fine post from Ian Reid, Laila Yuile, looks the members of our local proMedia 'Club' in the collective eye and…
The 53 Percent Solution….The Stenographers Crank-Up
LegitimizeThis!ExpectationsGaloreVille Well, well, well.... It looks like Diamond Jim's Flaherty's shake-down .....errrrr....'reminder' about the $1.6 billion dollar extortion has been knocked off the front pages by, as we predicted yesterday,…
Did Campbell Clark Government Spend $100K To Get Its YouTube Hits Over The Magical 2K Mark?
Kinda/SortaOpenGovernmentClosedBidsVille Sean Holman, as a result of yet another FOI request, has discovered that the Campbell/Clark government recently spent $100,000 updating its Public Relations website. Not surprisingly, Mr Holman got…
The Steno Has Tweeted….HST Vote Turnout Is Allegedly 53%
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Diamond Jim Flaherty Delivers Gordon Campbell’s Last Body Blow To B.C.
AllThePoisonPillsThatFitBuriedInTheCottonCandyCloudsVille Yes, that's right. Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says that we, the people of British Columbia, who were told the HST was not even on their radar screens when…
HST Voter Turnout – Secret Warehouse Lets Sun Shine In!
AllTheScrutineersThatDon'tFitE-BCVille Yup. That's right. The image above actually shows the super secret warehouse and the seventy fine folks who are participating in the Oompa-Loompalooza (i.e. counting and verifying the HST…