The rumour mill
Here’s a quick one that came my way today from a pretty decent source. Within the next four months, Christy Clark will decide to focus on the important duties of…
BC Liberals
BC NDP Challenge on Enbridge But Embrace Fracking and the Pacific Trails Pipeline!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberal’s have sold us out over the Enbridge Pipeline no matter how you cut it. The BC NDP are the Enbridge Opponent Champions! The…
Unwelcome hero of working people
In the preceding article It is an old and cruel tactic, a reader’s comment referenced long dead miner Albert ‘Ginger’ Goodwin. Today, few young adults know this icon of trade…
Lying about telling lies is Liberal truth
Margaret MacDiarmid was pushed onto the BCLDB platform by Christy Clark and Rich Coleman and the puppet masters behind them. Standing alone in the spotlight, the ironically named minister of…
Alberta: NOT the “West”
I am always bemused by the CRAP trolls that infect the comments section of all media relating to anything happening in Canada..they are vituperous, lacking in logic, and fond of…
The Little School Board that Could, part 2….
To quote Kurt Vonnegut, and so it goes… Education Clown Minister Abbott has fired the Cowichan School Board, for not doing something that the Provincial Liberals haven’t be able to…
Thumb in the eye of BC taxpayers
The BC Liberal policy is firmly established. Reward your important friends and give the rest – teachers, paramedics, etc. – a firm kick in the ass. Of course, agency directors…
A shill game
Ian Reid at The Real Story has proposed a new name for ‘Concerned Citizens for B.C.’, a group organized by Liberal toady Jim Shepard. From BC Rail shill to straight…
British Columbia invests in tobacco industry
Quebec launches $60B lawsuit against tobacco companies, Canadian Press, June 8, 2012 “More than half of Canadian provinces have now sued big tobacco companies in an attempt to recoup health…
Bonuses for bureaucrats – a phony scheme
Fine editorial from the best daily in British Columbia: CLBC bonuses call for inquiry, Times Colonist, June 22, 2012 “…Last fall, as reports of CLBC’s mismanagement and cover-ups mounted, the…
On the backs of the disadvantaged
Minister orders end to bonuses at Community Living BC, CTV News, October 21, 2011 “Social Development Minister Stephanie Cadieux has ordered an end to bonuses for managers at the Crown…
British Columbia, Potemkin village style
Part of the plan to arrest dwindling BC Liberal support is to announce and re-announce program changes and capital projects, large and small. There is a flurry of proclamations happening…
Subverting democracy
A month after Jim Shepard resigned as CEO of BC’s second largest forestry company, the Liberal government appointed him Senior Policy Adviser. After a year, Shepard, 73, is leaving to…
Screw the needy, our money goes elswhere
“…complicit in a complex web of legal, administrative and political strategies designed to forward a multi-billion dollar infrastructure development program to enrich the largest most profitable companies on earth at…
The Little School Board that Could….
Okay, kids, gather around, and I’ll tell you a tale of courage and honesty that you will be sure to think is fiction, but, no, it really happened, once upon…
Rewarding friends, jailing opponents
Again in 2012, Alexandra Morton was not awarded an Order of BC. Perhaps she is not sufficiently distinguished or perhaps she failed to offer financial support in the way others…
More from the Not-Net-Zero folks
The succinct words from Blog Borg Collective: Bullshit
Lady Christy can sink no lower
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Taxpayers carry financial risks for IPPs
In Kleptocracy: rule by thieves, I repeated news that BC Hydro spent $676 million with private power producers. Through idiocy or corruption, the public utility has been forced to buy…
Chapter from Heller’s Catch-22 ?
A comment that speaks for itself from the article Kleptocracy – rule by thieves: “I installed a 10 kW wind turbine on my Okanagan property 3 years ago, buying into…