Jumbo-friendly Bill Creates Municipality Without Residents, The Tyee, May 28, 2012: Provincial legislation passed last week paves the road further toward construction of the controversial Jumbo Glacier ski resort and real estate […]
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 of this […]
More from the Not-Net-Zero folks
Succinct words word from Blog Borg Collective: Bullshit
From May 2012: Lady Christy can sink no lower
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Evidence of corruption mounts
Economist Erik Andersen, writing at The Common Sense Canadian, contemplates why BC Hydro: indulged in its aggressive contracting with Independent Power Producers in BC when domestic demand increases are nonexistent. I suggest […]
When they don’t care about the answer
Jack Knox column: Students show the way to a fair hearing, Times Colonist, May 13, 2012 …This is what all of Canada could use right now: a listening competition. Had B.C.’s Liberals […]
Taxpayers carry financial risks for IPPs
Through idiocy or corruption, the public utility has been forced to buy electricity it did not and does not need, some of it at prices five times market.,,
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 the BC […]
Kleptocracy: rule by thieves
BC Liberals claim to be the “free enterprise” party of British Columbia but scams in play at BC Hydro are not examples of free enterprise. These are old fashion economic frauds committed […]
Demonstrating empty headed desperation
Yesterday, I noticed a small gem in Rod Smelser’s informative twitter stream: “BC Govt Communications & Public Engagement has budget of $26M for spin, Environmental Assessment Office, $9M. Sierra Club: B.C. Budget […]
Hypocrisy reigns
B.C. accused of salary increase ‘double standard’, CBC News, May 3, 2012 Cabinet staffers got average 10-per-cent hike while ‘net-zero’ offered elsewhere. B.C.’s teachers and many provincial government workers might have been […]
Rebranding – easier than revision
Province columnist Michael Smyth writes the BC Liberal Party — “searching for any way out of its predicament” — believes a new name might be part of the answer to unpopularity and […]
Unjust deserts
Without reporting anything on the BC Liberal HQ purge beyond the party line, Vancouver Sun reporter Jonathan Fowlie provides the pols an uncritical platform to assure us that all goes well in […]
The car-crash-that-never-ends
Liberals across Canada are being hoist with their own petard, Brian Topp, The Globe and Mail, Apr. 29, 2012 Meanwhile, the car-crash-that-never-ends that is the premiership of British Columbia’s Christy Clark is […]
Worksafe BC, not net-zero land
In its mandate, Worksafe BC lists a cardinal purpose: “To promote the prevention of workplace injury, illness, and disease.” Following the Burns Lake and Prince George sawmill explosions, both in 2012, it […]
Covering for mistakes, folly & stupidity
Palmer: Taxpayers overpaid by millions to prevent more Liberal dirty laundry from being aired in court, Vancouver Sun, April 24, 2012 “After months of delay, the B.C. Liberals finally released Tuesday a […]
A new new name?
A twit from Victoria reports: I thought they’d already changed. It is the BC Christy party now, according to the LINO website.
We’ll tell you what you really, really want
Is Times Colonist becoming BC’s newspaper of record? It might be the go-to place to follow BC current events, except for political commentary provided by that guy whose son toiled professionally for […]
Toward a certain end
My point to CKNW radio reporter Shane Woodford in the twitter exchange discussed in an earlier post was that too little attention has been paid to the reasons why public approval of […]
Willing buyers, willing seller
“There are two things that are important in politics. The first thing is money, and I can’t remember what the second one is.” – Mark Hanna, campaign architect, ca. 1900 David D. […]
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