In what must be a significant disappointment to the few advisers pushing her, Premier Clark will soon make an announcement that a fall election is not in the offing. Oh, she’ll tell you it’s about all sorts of wonderful things she’s working on and how none of those have been fully developed. And then she’ll [...]

Have a good look at the numbers below. How the Premier can possibly look anyone in the eye and try and spin this away from her, is beyond me. In many constituencies where she soared in support for the BC Liberal leadership, the HST was RESOUNDINGLY defeated. In 25 constituencies the BC Liberals will need [...]

Apart from being stunned that there were STILL shameless nits lining the track at Rocky Mountaineer (after many reasonable offers)–too bad they can’t fire the lot of them…I thought, how long can these morons stand there and pretend they’re being hard done by? The season they work is finished in just over a month. Other [...]

Imagine being told by the users and manipulators around you that you’re the chosen one. Far from others in your circle of friends or personal political bailiwick–many of whom, always easily exceeded you in qualifications–it was you that would prevail. Thus, through the kindness of (essentially) strangers (hello Blanche DuBois) you prevailed–only to fall to [...]

I’ve only met Barry Penner once and it was in passing. I didn’t like his ridiculous comments about how the BC NDP should be apologizing to the BC Liberals over BC Rail allegations (he was foolish enough to cite, in the Legislature, the CTV Vancouver story that sought to “exonerate” Christy Clark–the story that I’ve [...]

Do you remember earlier this year when Jim Beatty of CTV Vancouver (Christy Television) had the temerity to claim–not one week before the BC Liberal leadership contest (among other fantastic, overblown rhetoric), that no politician was ever under investigation by the RCMP during the general investigation of ‘Basi-Virk’? They were “exonerated”! according to Mr. Beatty–in [...]

When I wrote this some months ago, I thought that by now Erik Bornmann would go back to shining the shoes of Mark Marissen and Christy Clark, instead of sullying the reputation of the Ontario bar–but alas, no such luck. Mr. Bornmann has been approved by the Law Society of Upper Canada to practice law in [...]

I wrote the following on March 15th of this year, breaking the news of Bill Good’s former producer moving on with the newly minted Premier Clark: “Guess who Premier Clark’s new Deputy Communications Director is? Rebecca Scott. Don’t know her? Let me help. She is the immediate past producer of ‘The Bill Good Show’ (she [...]

While the rest of us were mourning the loss of Jack Layton last night, the Premier was on multi-cultural TV. Here is a direct quote: “Oh I just LOVED Jack Layton. He was actually an inspiration to me to run again in politics…” I literally leaned over and almost fell out of my desk chair [...]

In what I consider to be the quintessential piece on former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, George Jonas–one of Canada’s finest writers ever, so eloquently took the words of the Bard and accurately–appropriately, too, encapsulated Mr. Trudeau’s legacy in a post mortem that appeared in the National Post, which I had framed and, to this day, [...]