The Ground Beneath Christy Clark’s Attempted Leadership of BC Beginning to Crumble
I’m going to be fairly brief (like I’ve ever tried to do that before!) and then get you to the big story on Tuesday.
There have been a number of utterly idiotic prognostications recently by dimbells like Mike Klassen and Gordon Wilson. They posit that Christy Clark could very well win the next election.
The mere suggestion is cause to wonder if a rubber room might be in order. The BC Liberal internal polling is such great cause for alarm, that words can’t describe the harrowing angst and palpable aching inside the Christy silo.
Klassen and Wilson are both available to this information–but why let the truth get in the way of shilling for their friend Christy.
In fact, after infesting the last NPA campaign and almost single-handidly destroying it (along with Suzanne Anton), Klassen actually had the audacity to compare his embarrassing scrawl in the Puffington Post, with a recent column by Vaughn Palmer.
The two columns were dramatically different, but this was yet one more of, as my friend Bob Ransford likes to put it, “Klassen’s Klassics.” Palmer got a few of his examples confused, but that his column was even remotely similar to the fawning, delusional, shameless Christy advertising piece Klassen wrote, is yet further proof that when it comes to political predictions and analysis, Mike Klassen is several sandwiches short of a picnic.
Here is an idiot’s view of Christy’s chances. Notice how he is described as a “communications professional and wine lover.”
The Puffington Post didn’t bother to mention that Klassen is a paid BC Liberal trollop. He has and continues to pick up work from advertising or the communications side when the BC Liberals scrape the bottom of the barrel and dial his number. This was journalism??? Worthy of old Ariana’s folly? No wonder people group all of us in the blogosphere together–the Puffington Post has ZERO CREDIBILITY with me when they don’t provide a disclaimer about the work of someone who cannot possibly be considered a writer or when they don’t declare him what he truly is: a partisan campaigner for the current premier, who couldn’t write a decent piece if his life depended on it. The man is a loathsome flake, who is clueless about politics and yet after failing to capture a council seat in Vancouver’s last election, he’s fixing behind the scenes for a nomination on Christy’s team–you heard it here first. Is this the “star candidate” Christy was telling us about??? It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. Klassen and his pal Danny Fountain, both supported Clark in the leadership race and are an embarrassment to the blogging community as they revealed themselves for the full-on self-promotion they committed to–and not much else. After coming up with several good stories, in the beginning, on Gregor Robertson’s foolishness, they shut down their eventually-pathetic blog as soon as they couldn’t get Klassen’s sorry derriere elected to council.
And that’s after he lied his ass off about his true intentions, telling everyone, including me, that there was “no chance” he would run. “No way, Alex!” Expect the same lies about how he’s not foot-kissing Christy to secure a nomination.
Totally pathetic. An insult to voters if that happens. Mind, Klassen never hesitated to pretend he was a journalist–a sure insult to his former readers–many of whom were obviously too dense to see it.
On the other hand, I’m not sure what’s going on over at The Georgia Straight–not that anyone should really care–unless you’re looking for a ‘gal’ named “Tawnee Kitten, 36-24-36…9″, or another ‘woman’, “Jawanna Mann, 44D-36-38…10–butt play an ‘ass-pecialty.”
No, I’m not kidding. I wish I was.
It’s sickening that any media venue would have the temerity to refer to themselves as a serious newspaper and need to take such demented filth for advertising dollars. Desperate and dumb and sickening.
Carlito Pablo, who is an otherwise good writer for them, continues to release the mental meanderings of one Gordon Wilson (Pablo has been doing this for some time and doesn’t realize the damage to his credibility). Wilson, as always, is all over the map. One week, Christy’s on the chopping block and will be replaced by Stock Day (not true, totally untrue) and the next, she’s going to win the coming election by taking the BC Liberal Party into big ‘L’ liberal territory.
Is this man Wilson at all well? And why would anyone give him two lines of credibility in any news venue? Oh yeah, I forgot, The Straight is a tranny fest advertising flyer, with a few news bits sprinkled throughout. Not credible and completely devoid, in my view–and the view of many, of the seriousness required when they feature the likes of Wilson and claim to do real journalism.
We had quite enough of Wilson’s megalomanical drivel while suffering through reams of news hours when he was still leader of the BC Liberals and then an NDP cabinet minister, and some Progressive Alliance nuttiness sprinkled in among the two.
Try not to read THIS NONSENSE too close to either side of a meal.
I don’t know what I ever found more frightening about Gordon Wilson: Does he believe the horse manure he shovels to be true, or does know it’s not, and says it anyway??? The man got lucky during one debate in 1991 and has been milking that 10 second sound bite ever since.
He’s insufferable. Why anyone would take his opinions seriously is beyond comprehension. He didn’t know what the hell he was doing when either in opposition or in government and assailed his own political career to the extent that he could never run for anything ever again.
His lies and spin are uncontainable.
For example, he STILL foams about how Gordon Campbell took the BC Liberal Party away from him. Pablo even repeats it for him!
News flash: Gordon Campbell didn’t take the goddamned party away from Gordon Wilson–Gordon Wilson’s very own penis did.
His contemptibly pathetic reasoning about a possible BC Liberal victory is revealed in simply this: IF, and that’s a massive ‘if’, Christy could save her party by effectively turning it into an outpost of the federal Liberals–as Wilson asserts, wouldn’t she be building on sand?
Earth to Gordon Wilson: The ideals of the federal Liberals were put on trial, TWICE, and they’re currently sitting on death row. Wilson ignores this. What idiocy! Besides, a whole slew of life-long federal Liberals, in an extraordinary act, wrote an open letter to BC Liberal delegates during the last BC Liberal leadership contest, DEMANDING that delegates elect Kevin Falcon–NOT THEIR POLITICAL SOUL SISTER, Christy, but instead, Heaven save us, Falcon, a Conservative!
The other point, and perhaps more stark, is that on the one hand Wilson claims she can pull it off by essentially revealing her true Liberal credentials, on the other, he admits to the fact she’s hated and isn’t doing a good job anyway. Huh?
Suddenly, it’s dawned on me, why he may want to legalize marijuana…
Regardless, Wilson remains unbelievably foolish. He hates Conservatives, we get that. But is this man so stupid that he doesn’t understand the political playing field that he once occupied has shifted? Oh, yes, excuse me again, my mistake. He was busy using it as a dating service.
Too bad I already gave away the nickname ‘The Dummy’ to the Premier. Mind, I may have to rechristen her soon, as several dummies have complained about the comparison.
Anyway, Tuesday I’ll return with the back story on the efforts to get rid of both Clark and Cummins, toss the BC Liberal turkeys that remain and truly come up with a new party. It might not work, but Cummins and Clark would do well to withdraw. Dix’s poll numbers are not hard–they’re actually soft in key swing areas, and a new vehicle, with a collapsed BC Conservative Party (that would remove the Evangelical morons from the front benches) and a wipe out of the BC Liberal brand–which is totally dead, would help. But that would require Clark and Cummins sitting in the stadium parking lot, nevermind the sidelines.
We’re talking major firepower is at work. MAJOR…
Can’t run an election on the center-right if even three of these seven guys don’t write cheques. Don’t worry, boys, no names. I won’t give you away.
I’ve spoken to each of them, though. Three as recently as Friday. The others before that.
They laugh at Klassen and they almost vomit at mere mention of Wilson. And they WILL NOT support Clark any longer. Period–full stop. They’re done with her. As one put it: “I’m ashamed she’s my premier, Alex. I can’t, for the life of me, believe she screwed this up so badly. She’s the worst premier we’ve ever had and you’re right, she’s totally unqualified to be there. We either try to save this thing without her or Cummins, or otherwise let Adrian take over. It’s unbelievable that Christy and her people don’t get it.”
Of course, but I’m the only one who’s been saying that from the beginning. Day ONE!
Stay tuned for the EXCLUSIVE, behind-the-scenes intel, right here–where you get the real story, every time.
Until Tuesday, be well.
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Sorry about the inconvenience of having to wait until the site was back up. It crashed overnight due to a whole slew of you pouring over the Basi-Virk posts and many downloading or copying the material. It’s odd for that kind of spike in readership on a Sunday, however, thanks for the interest.
I apologize again for the interruption. And many thanks to the hundreds of you that wrote in and a few who called my office. I won’t be able to get to all of you, but know that I am thankful for your loyalty and support.
Enjoy the rest of the day.
website seems to be broken at the moment alex.
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Well aware. Doing everything we can to correct it. Apologies to all. This may take several hours. Not sure what happened, huge spike in readers may have caused a system crash. Please be patient, thank you, and sincerest apologies for any inconvenience.
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WANT ALEX STORY NOW!!!!!
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Alex,
You might find it interesting that a banner is appearing over the CBC site.
“CBC.ca is currently experiencing technical difficulties. We are working to resolve the issue and apologize for any inconvenience.”
Unless the CBC has been suddenly overwhelmed with people dying to know what Mr Smart allows his reporters to say, your site problem may not have anything to do with volume. It may be far more generic… as in targeted.
Or not.
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No, I already heard there were lots of other websites that had similar problems. Inside the blog there are all sorts of goodies that we have to make sure work properly so that you lovely folks don’t get stumped when you’re trying to get one, or comment, etc.
When any one of those is compromised, a collapse takes effect immediately and the blog is put into reserved status while repairs are made.
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Dont tell me the CBC uses Go Daddy to host their site. Go Daddy was down today.
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I know. Brutal. But good people. I beam out of the United States of America.
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Breaking News!!!!
Alex Tsakumis Web Site Crippled!
Rumours Abound: Red Taco Virus Sent From Communist China, Suspected!
Sources Say: Comrade Crusty Crotch, Frightened Of Forthcoming AGT Post, May Have Gotten ‘Chinese Lightening’ To Crash AGT Site!
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No, just a ton of people trying to download BC Rail material at once. I guess JVD’s appearance in court prompted that. No other explanation for almost 9,000 visitors on a Sunday. And so many at once clamouring over the BC Rail material.
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What are your thoughts on the Liberals not working a fall Session? Perhaps so they dont have to deal with labour and other issues? Also Dix should Re introduce and implement Harcourt’s mla pension plan and make it retroactive. After all Dedung announced province is broke due to poor gas revenues. Is it also true that Dedung wrote medical personnel letters telling them they would be punished if they criticized the healthcare in BC?
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It’s elementary.
Clark is a coward, as are her caucus, and they don’t want to be embarrassed further by the NDP, who had a good last session.
Mind, they weren’t as robust as they could have been. They should have been hammering the govt on all sorts of things, but chose, instead, to leave them alone.
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Another poll today. CC minimual support from the ladies and dropping. So much for her ladies only meetings. There is not a single women I know who likes her or thinks shes sincere or qualified.
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Agreed.
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ironically enough, the women i know who think that women still dont get a fair break in the “old boys club” detest actions similar to what CC has done.
ITS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE FIGHTING AGAINST.
if you want equality…. having womens only meetings is not it dummy.
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It could be because it appears to most of us that while she’s busy NOT governing the province she apparently was able to take time out to get a boob job. Really Christy? It’s fairly obvious. Never noticed your blouse sticking out like that in the past, and before any woman gets mad at me for pointing that out because it denigrates women politicians, let me remind you that she’s NEVER been a real politician. Rather, an opportunist and she’s actually set the women’s movement back quite a few years….
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Would it be sacrilegious to call this The Dormition of Tsakumis? One good thing about crashing is you become quickly aware of how many readers commentators etc., missed you. Says you are not just another flaneur!
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Thanks, pal.
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Hey Alex.
Did you ask? Maybe “Tawnee Kitten” likes her.
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LOL!
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You can say what you like about “The Straight” but it’s ironic that there’s more truth in their “ads” than ever appeared in a Sun editorial or that ever came out of a Liberal spin doctor’s cake hole.
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I’ll give you that.
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What about “Seven o’clock Susan” who is (ahem) a bit bi?
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C’mon, no way…
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“Jawanna Mann” likes her for sure!
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C’mon. Easy there…
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Here’s hoping the “firepower” members you reference are sufficiently motivated to engineer a press conference even the MSM couldn’t ignore. Otherwise, I fear Clark will be allowed to stumble along as premier until the next election when she offers her office to Comrade Dix.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/sto…e-hearings.html
WAKE THE HELL UP PEOPLE!
HER WE GO AGAIN!
CRUSTY AND HER BAND OF THIEVES ARE ABOUT TO BEND US OVER AGAIN!
ANYONE WHO CAN NOT SEE THROUGH THIS FRAUD IS NUTS!
I HOPE THEY ARE READY FOR TOTAL DISOBEDIENCE AND AN ALL OUT SHOOTING WAR!
What the matter Jay Rafe shut down? (thanks to the trolls from the PAB! they seem to run free around the blogs destroying everything they touch!
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Um, I don’t know what you mean by a “shooting war” but I sincerely hope you were being figurative and not literal.
Please be careful what you write on this blog.
Thank you.
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I saw the postings on Twitter late last week & just laughed… knowing quite well Klassen’s motive. And no I did not follow the link to the Huff Post for the rest of story. Just his name should be a turn off for anyone who wants balanced reporting.
Guy in Victoria
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415 today on nw according to BT re Virk
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I am so glad the website is back up and running! I can’t wait until Tuesday for the major news!!
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Aww, B.C. politics at its finest, all the nut bars are out in full force. One thing about Gordon Wilson he was the only guy I’ve heard that could talk Fillmypockets Hochstien to a stand still. They had a go on the Bill Good a while back and Wilson came out on top. Fillmy pockets does alright when he is talking without any opposition, but crumbled when he was up against Wilson. IMHO . And I am not a fan of either. Cheers
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Yeah, I agree. You know Wilson could have easily been premier, and for a couple of terms.
But he’s got such bad political judgement. Good debater, solid on some issues, but he’s a raving philosophe, who lives for the sound of his own voice. A classic Liberal. LOL!
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“They had a go on the Bill Good a while back and Wilson came out on top”
When Gordon and Judy had a go..
One has to wonder if Judy was on top..
Umm.. never mind..
Gordon Wilson is to his credit a skilled debater but has alot to be desired when it comes to actual leadership. His Democratic Alliance
Party just sank ten minutes after it slid into the political waters at the time.
As for Klassen, where does one begin with this guy? A text book example of huge ego and not much depth. Followed some of his
adventures during the Civic Election in Vancouver, and it was enough to make anyone vomit.
Both have the same character trait, they’re both publicity hounds and love to seem themselves in the media (both main and these blog things).
The NPA had a bit of chance to defeat Mayor Moonbeam, but once again they with Mike Klassen pointed the canon the wrong way and lit the fuse.
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Klassen is the worst kind of political parasite.
Fontaine, at least, can write and think…somewhat.
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great column. thank you for advising there were problems with the w ebsite. I kept trying to access it * was constantly redirected to other places & being told I had an error.
My computer wasn’t gaining access to anything with your name on it so I emailed Harvey O to enquire if your website was having problems.
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Very kind of you. It’s all good now.
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Does Social Credit come back to life with a strong leader…followed by the immediate crossover of a handful of MLA’s?
The brand name would be more palatable for those federal Liberals or Conservatives who do not want to belong to a provincial party that bears a similar name to their arch rival federally.
There appears to be a tremendous void to be filled by a Party that will have a social conscience that reflects todays population….not the Church or bigots, and fiscally conservative.
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Your observation is lucid and sensible, although, Social Credit will never come back in this province. Too much baggage.
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Social Credit disappeared by the time the 1996 provincial election came around. There’s nothing in there to see that can be labelled
Social Credit unless you went to the scene of the train wreck caused
by VanderZalm, the Coneheads from the Fundamentalists and of course The Zalmoids. (A repeat of that coming now within the BC Conservatives?)
There’s no “baggage” left as those who have “checked baggage” ended up in the BC Liberals (and a few still are). Some got their seat in the first class coach. But they’ll be the first ones after Christy and those up front in the locomotive to see what happens when the train goes off the rails because Christy wasn’t paying attention to the speed and overheating wheel bearings.
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your absolutely correct darrin. that is what people want… how ever fiscally resposible and having a social conscience dont always seem to work together.
this is why we need to change our government at least every 8 years or (at least in BC) we end up going WAY to far in one of those directions.
now if we had abundant oil like Alberta… maybe we could do both.
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Expect the same lies about how he’s not foot-kissing Christy to secure a nomination.
Foot-kissing ? Me thinks the target is slightly higher. LOL
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Easy, tiger…Klassen needs a lover’s manual. On his honeymoon, Fontaine had to come along and draw pictures…
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great column alex.
klassen comparing his column to palmer is just plain delusional.
i love to bs and once made home made beer so does this means i can say i am a communicator and brewer ? give us a break mike
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Mike wouldn’t know a Chardonnay from a charade.
Oh wait…
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Alex,
From reading your comments about the major money donations drying up for Christy’s Liberal Party, does this open the door for Kevin Falcon to take his chance to be elected in 2013 as a Leader of a new coalition Party?
Kevin was tainted with the HST and calling people “stupid” for not voting to keep it, but memories in politics are relatively short.
Bill Vander Zalm was the dreadful Minister of Human Resources with the infamous political cartoon of him pulling the wings off of the fly for welfare recepients….”pick up a shovel”. He was not loved as an Education Minister by the teachers. VanderZalm always received the most applause at Socred conventions when the Cabinet was introduced, but he was “despised” by the public…atleast while he was in Government. He quit politics before the very pivotal election of 1983. However, for supposedly such a disliked person, he was able to come back in 1986 and win the leadership of the Social Credit Party and win the largest majority Government at the time. He was incredibly popular in the 1986 election campaign.
Christy Clark was despised as the Education Minister under Gordon Campbell. I have never been a fan of her since her SFU days. During her days as a Cabinet Minister she relished in bashing the NDP instead of promoting her own Governments “achievements”. She was tiring. Whatever writing was on the wall that made her leave politics was at a time that she was not a well loved Cabinet Minister by the people of BC.
Gee whiz…who reenters politics to be loved by her fellow Liberal Party members who forgot what she was like as a Minister, and to become Premier.
My question is do you think Kevin Falcon is itching to be Premier? And if so, it does not seem to make sense that he would wait his turn 4 years down the road to hopefully unseat the NDP….it took the LIberals two elections..history could repeat itself.
Kevin has the support of the business community such as Peter Brown and Ryan Beedie… I am sure they would gladly fund a Party lead by Kevin.
The question is whether he wants to stick it to Christy for fraudulently stealing the leadership race from him. What does he have to lose?
There is plenty of time for a new Party with a strong leader and policies to bring home the centrist voter who are aimlessly wondering who to support without having to hold their nose. More importantly, enough time to go by that the HST is no longer an issue.
Is Kevin the right person?? Is there no other strong leader in BC? James Moore??? Diane Watts??? In the end, it all comes down to how much damage people believe the NDP will do to the province as Government in order to finally unite under a strong leader to win the May 2013 election.
What could be a good name for a new political party in BC???
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BC Party…
Dianne is busy in Surrey…
James Moore would be a good choice…
Christy and Bill spent years away before coming back. Kevin’s foolhardy comments are too fresh. He’d get killed. Beedie is his pal…Peter is most certainly not.
Time’s almost up. It’s not plentiful.
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B.C. Party was already used. It was used by an upstart Motiuk in Burnaby who tried and failed to win a seat on council. The BC Party back then lasted about 3 months.
(turning to the audience)..
Folks what Darin here is referring to is when Bennett made VanderZalm Social Services Minister. VanderZalm for a time also got
Education, but that was before Social Services.
VanderZalm dumped out in 1982 calling the Cabinet “gutless”. he sat out the 1983 election and made a stupid move to take on Mike Harcourt in the 1984 civic election.
Kevin would be killed in the 2013 election should somehow he end up as Leaer (there’s not much time left, the new leader would need to be in place in time to oversee the 2013 Budget.
and should he try again, one hopes that he does it right, eases up on the influence and over the top self importance of the Money Boyz and does not bring Stowe and his crew into it.
A far more grassroots type of campaign similar to Abbots would work.
But in any political party, the grassroots are cut short and fed alot of fertilizer.
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The same James Moore who was trying to justify shutting down the coast guard base? The same James Moore who desperately supports the Enbridge pipeline and only softens when he sees BC is opposed (but secretly still wants it because Harper does). The same James Moore that has done not much for his riding? The same James Moore who has never had a real job outside of politics? More of the same corporate welfare and ideology that is all wrong about today’s BC.
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Other than the Enbridge and and Coast Guard idiocy, the rest of your rant is factually incorrect. Demonstrably so.
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WCLP: World-Class Leadership Party – Leading The Canadian Way
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The Royal Canadian Democratic Party – Of, For & By You!
The Canadian Coffee Party – The Cream Of The Political Crop!
The Maple Leaf Party – More Green For You!
lol
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I believe the BC Liberal Party has screwed this province up badly. I consider it the worst party BC has ever had and totally unqualified to be there. As I consider the BC NDP the best of a very poor provincial party selection, I am going to wholeheartedly support Adrian in his effort to return BC to the world-class leading status it enjoyed up until recently. I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would support the BC Liberal Party beyond its first term. If I did that, I would be so ashamed!
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Mr. Jones: You seem to be unaware, or deliberately deceptive of the fact that we (and the world) are in recession. If you think that Adrian Dix and a pack of social activists are going to get us through these rough times, I have some oceanfront property just outside of Drumheller to sell you.
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Larry, the province was in the exact same boat back in the early 80′s.
The primary reason for Expo ’86 (inviting the world to invest here in BC)was to spark the economy and keep it flourishing long-term.
So I was only saying that I believe if BC wants to once again excel at a stratospheric height, (at the very minimum) it will need a government willing to at least try its best to be world-class and in that regard, I consider the BC NDP to BC’s best chance (albeit only by default).
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Quote: “It’s sickening that any media venue would have the temerity to refer to themselves as a serious newspaper and need to take such demented filth for advertising dollars. Desperate and dumb and sickening.”
Am I the only one that noticed that many of AGT’s posts on CC include the use of the word: temerity in them!!?? Now that is the proper use of the word, eh Christy!!
Question: Is she still in China, cause she may need a Great Wall to protect herself from the storm that is coming!
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Storm?
Try Armageddon.
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Alex,
Two more papers to qualify for the “living off the avails.. ” distinction.
Both pretend to uphold the most stellar community standards, but don’t. Both have ‘escort’ and prostitute ads in the back pages – where kids never look?
1/ Vancouver’s “Westender”
2/ Victoria’s ever-failing “Monday Magazine” [inexplicably, home now to a Mr Keirans.]
“Monday” I believe is owned by a Mr. Black who, apparently would rather spend billions refining unwanted bitumen, than produce a proactive Public Interest press. The business perception must be that supporting the likelihood of widespread environment pollution is less financially risky than finding writers who really know how to grow an audience.
Go figure….
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I’m a huge fan of Mr. Black. He’s first class.
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But his reporter Fletcher isn’t!! I wouldn’t be surprised if Black hasn’t himself belly’ed up to the MSM trough for his share of the LIEberals advertising bonanza!
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Alex,
I can hardly see anything comforting in knowing that there is an Oligarchy of 7 who will control democracy and public policy in BC.
That is exactly what was wrong with the Liberals who gave away the province to their financiers all at the expense of the ordinary BC’r. It seems that it is not the Liberal’s politics that they have an issue with, just that Christy lacks the competence to win power and to continue the shafting we have been getting.
This is really quite troubling. I have never leaned away from some angle to the right of centre but this makes me think that BC needs the NDP to sever these oligarchs.
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We need to put political donation limits in place – cap them at $5,000 per individual and $5,000 per corporation or corporate group.
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Too high!!!
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Alex,
The federal limits are $1,200 per individual, no corporate or union donations allowed. I think this is too strict – what would you suggest as a donation limit, and would you allow corporate or union donations?
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No corporate. No union.
$1500.00 max each. Let our enemies show themselves…
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What about a higher limit for candidates? Shouldn’t a candidate be able to fund their own campaign, up to $10,000?
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That I could live with. Let’s say up to $100,000
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I like the idea of capping the limits. $1500 seems rather reasonable and I especially like the idea of no corporate and no union donations for any party. I would also add to that a ban on any other groups donating. That would be a level playing field for the Fraser Institutes of the world as well as environmental groups. One size fits all, even if some find that a bit snug. And while playing king for a day, that whole lobbyist thing would need a rather severe de-lousing. The self-funded $100K presumably from their own pocket and a ban on shell games?
How does the “Group of 7″ fit into this limiting out thing? They would bankroll a brand new party and 7 x $1500 won’t do it. Also, why are they not coming (or will they?) as to who they are? Its that backroom stuff that is coming home to roost for the Liberals. Would a new party learn from those mistakes or would they just follow the same track?
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You think that doesn’t exist for the BC NDP?
You’re dreaming.
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Go to Elections BC’s website and look under Electoral Finance. You can get the names of anyone who donated over $250. You can even sort it by the size of the donation, that should tell you the names of at least some of the group of 7.
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No it won’t. Only two of them on there are part of this group.
Much more powerful this time around and they’re all aiming straight at Christy. She’s toast whether she stays or goes. But they want her gone.
First mtng today at 1pm.
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O’ brother where art thou?
http://tinyurl.com/cmhk2yf
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Yup. Brother Dix…
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No corporate or union, a maximum amount per individual, and No negative campaigning – a plan that is assessed by an independent panel. Enough with proving why the other guy doesn’t deserve it, time to prove why you deserve the privilege and no career politicians. How about a boot camp once elected and ongoing ethic courses and periodic audits, etc.
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No corporate. No union. Agreed. As for the amount… not sure… but it should be such that there is a reasonable expectation the majority of eligible voters could express the conviction of their support (or non-support) to the same degree. Kind of “on a scale of 1 to 10″…..not “1 to whatever-it-takes”. We all have only one vote per person. There cannot be a situation where one would expect a greater rate of return for that one vote than anyone else. The figure you suggest is not out of line.
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“BC needs the NDP to sever these oligarchs”
Yeah, I also think that foreign groups like Tides should have more say in the affairs of BC … and Canada … they already have Vancouver locked up. Enjoy.
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Quite right! Tides is a very dangerous group.
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics
.@mikeklassen so Mike, is Alex right about you trying to get nominated as a bcliberal candidate? http://bit.ly/UFMZbn #bcpoli
8m Mike Klassen @MikeKlassen
@pqpolitics Thank you for having the courtesy to ask, Pete. I’m not seeking any political office & have no interest in running.
6m Pete Quily @pqpolitics
@MikeKlassen OK Mike, thanks for letting me know you’re not running for a job as a #bcliberal MLA & Alex Tsakumis was wrong #bcpoli
Time will tell.
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This is a shock??? He used the exact same words when Bob Macklin asked him if he was running for council!!!
ROTFLMFAO!!!
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mike klassen is a jerk.
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Amen!
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Mike Klassen?
Nice kid , but he’s sharp as a bowl of jello
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There’s not a goddamned thing nice about Klassen. You obviously don’t know him.
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In Palmer’s column he stated:
“But unknowns remain
How Opposition leader Adrian Dix will perform under the tighter scrutiny of a campaign….” . So far, it is Dix that has presented himself in interviews and media exposure as Premier material. Clark on the other hand, over the last year and a half since she snatched power, has provided many examples on multiple levels of why she should not be Premier. During an election campaign, avoiding comment, fence sitting, poor debating skills, vague statements, cliches, school girl drama, shallowness, insincerity, and nonexistent leadership skills will not sit well with voters who are looking for and desperate for someone with some form of vision for the province and the ability and qualifications to achieve it with integrity and the necessary intellect to carry it out.
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Good old Vaughn. Always a firm grasp of the obvious…
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Too little too late for this reader.
Vaughn has lost so much credibility with me I now look at ALL his articles with a jaundiced eye……..
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Now if only we could do something about Baldrey……..
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“It’s sickening that any media venue [Georgia Straight] would have the temerity to refer to themselves as a serious newspaper and need to take such demented filth for advertising dollars.”
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The Georgia Straight relies on Bob Rennie and MAC for tons of advertising dollars… How can the tranny ads be any worse?
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Fair enough. Good points. Rennie’s recent nonsense about the Olympic Village success is PURE DRIVEL.
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Rennie sold his soul years ago to the “All Mighty $$$$$’
Case closed.
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I’d still like to know why Jim Green’s suite at the Woodward was in Bob’s name…and what happened to it after Green died.
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Now Bob Rennie sits on the BC Housing Board.
Things that make you wonder.
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I was going to say the same. The backpage ads are appalling, yes, but maybe the condominium/RE ads are worse, and they must be the Straight’s main source of revenue. Hard to imagine them ever doing exposes of shoddy condominium construction or nightmare strata councils.
OTOH, he Straight does have one notable use. If you are too busy to keep track of politics, look out for the Straight’s election-season issue endorsing various “progressive” candidates around the Lower Mainland. If you are a tax-paying law-abiding family-supporting responsible citizen, then what you do is make sure to vote against those candidates.
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GREAT COMMENT!!!
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You may be correct about the “Liberal” brand but it is possible that British Columbia is ready to discard both the socialist left and corporate greed and vote for some party according to Wilson’s “vision” that truly represents the middle ground.
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That’s not Wilson’s vision. That’s a pipedream.
If a party emerged that had political leanings similar to those of a cross of Carole James and Dianne Watts, you could rule for forty years.
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Vancouver Real Estate = Drug Money
Carole James and Dianne Watts now that is a very interesting political party. Where do I send the cheque.
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Sir Alex;
I just told a friend of mine something along the lines of,
‘Yeah, Klassen’s right.
‘Here’s what it would take to save the BCLiberals.
‘Listen to CKNW at 10:07 AM one Wednesday or shortly thereafter. Listen to the roar of one of the stars just drown out the others as Gordon Campbell with a feminine mystique. She is the messiah we’ve all be waiting for. The Wayne Gretzky of Punditry. MY HERO!!
‘Oh and Transportation Minister Mary Polak? Can we just assume all she’ll do is build runways and tarmacs? For CC-177 Globemaster IIIs and Gulfstreams full of economic evacuees?
‘Hell, let’s just plan on economic evacuees fleeing for Washington State and Governor Rob McKenna. Adrian Dix, if anything, has gone further to the left while the free enterprise movement implodes. He’s endorsed Occupy, plans to steadily roll back tax cuts and got a hidden agenda beyond that.’
Give ‘em hell Sir Alex. BC deserves better than Cute Canute.
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Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name…
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Sir Alex;
I just told a friend of mine something along the lines of,
‘Yeah, Klassen’s right. The BCLiberals can win.
‘BUT here’s what it would take to save the BCLiberals.
‘Listen to CKNW at 10:07 AM one Wednesday or shortly thereafter. Listen to the roar of one of the stars just drown out the others as Gordon Campbell with a feminine mystique. She is the messiah we’ve all be waiting for to ride into Victoria. The Wayne Gretzky of Punditry. MY HERO!!
‘Oh and Transportation Minister Mary Polak? Can we just assume all she’ll do is build runways and tarmacs? For CC-177 Globemaster IIIs and Gulfstreams full of economic evacuees?
‘Hell, let’s just plan on economic evacuees fleeing for Washington State and Governor Rob McKenna. Adrian Dix, if anything, has gone further to the left while the free enterprise movement implodes. He’s endorsed Occupy, plans to steadily roll back tax cuts and got a hidden agenda beyond that.’
Give ‘em hell Sir Alex. BC deserves better than Cute Canute.
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With a little sleuthing , I was able to find a you tube of a Liberal caucus meeting. (Watch for Baldry and Palmer in the background with new catching mitts) I have no idea why or how this got out, but watch out when this hits the fan. I’m really surprised this slipped by you Alex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIP9KXdmO0
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ROTFLMAO!!!
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Puts a whole new meaning to “Beans and Jeans”……
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No, you guys have it all wrong. That was Rich Coleman’s last fundraiser. They feed you first and then you have to pay to leave. He tends to bring in a great deal of money with this method.
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Here’s a hypothetical that the LIEberals deserve:
The “group of 7″ cut off funding to Crash Test Dummy.
JVD abandons the directionless floundering BC Conservatives.
Dummy gets an offer she can’t refuse.
JVD is appointed and funded by the “group of 7″ as new Liberal leader.
JVD proceeds to revive and cleanse the Liberals, starting with a mandatory purge – a political enema for all remaining LIEberals suspected of being full of shit!
JVD forces all suspected shitees through an extra-fine sieve ala a judicial inquiry.
JVD and the cleansed Liberals run for office next year.
I can dream.
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It’ll never happen.
JVD will tell you himself that he isn’t Premier material…although, considering the last two…
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Before you were born Alex, my friends and I would journey off of the island to travel to Vancouver in order to do a little growing up.
The Georgia Straight at the time was a rag sold by hippies on the street…..hopefully that provided them a meager income. It was edgy for the most part. It questioned the views of the establishment. The authors put forth provocative questions and at times provided alternative answers. They were changing times.
I logged onto the “Straight’s” website after reading your piece.
Geezus H Christ. This organization is nothing more than a front for the Asian girl friend experience. To mask this bent with a political front page is to insult one’s intelligence.
Victoria has a somewhat similar watered down weekly with similar questionable advertising in Monday Magazine.
The political front for this fish wrapper is none other than your old cohort, Brian Kieran.
Are there no positions for real political reporters out there anymore?
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Yeah, here.
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Interesting that you mention Kieran and (steadily sinking) Monday Mag.
In his latest bit of all-seeing puffery Kieran offers this…
“The North, the birthplace of entrepreneurial spirit, is no longer the domain of the free enterprisers.”
Do you hear that North? You’ve gone off Eric’s Esteemed Enterpriser’s Radar. He no longer sees you.
But wait: he also claims this.
“Something may be brewing in northern B.C. on the outer fringes of our political consciousness that could force election fortune tellers to go back to their Tarot cards for another peak ahead to 2013.”
Golly whiz!
“If there is to be independent political action in the North, it will most likely be home grown. There is a unique esprit de corps in this vast region itching to find political expression. There is absolutely no question that the North needs a new deal. The only question is whether or not its frustration has reached critical mass. “
“In the most recent Angus Reid poll, the NDP has a 63 per cent grip on the North while the Liberals and the Conservatives have just 16 and 17 per cent respectively.“
See? Despite a 63% “grip” on the northern electorate, in 6 months, a brand new party “could” make a huge difference.
How? Eric doesn’t say.
But it matters… if you’d rather avoid all that’s going wrong with the libs and cons: muddy the waters and invent a new party!
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Good old Brian.
A weaver of dreams…
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Thought of The Night
“Every-time I visit… Alex is taking me places.”
“OH!
THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!
You’ll be on your way up!
You’ll be seeing great sights!
You’ll join the high fliers
who soar to high heights.” – Dr, Seuss
Excellent piece Alex, as always. It’d be interesting to hear from Mike on this one though.
Needless to say that no one writes like you!
GR-eetings!
We live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.
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Thanks pal.
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Alex, if Crusty stays till the bittere end the NDP most likely will reduce the liberals to somewhere between 2-6 seats. You mentioned it a few posts ago. Dreaming here, but would it be possible for a new Provincial Party to get not only Diane Watts but Carole James on board? Neither hard right nor left, but a fiscally conservative party with a moderate social conscience. Ok I’m putting the bottle down now….
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Me too…
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Let’s see here…
We have The Dummy the dictator
We have The 2nd Cummins
We have Adrian “open votes now to be whipped if he does not like your vote” Dix the dictator…..
Sadly…….no one to vote for……again.
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Wheres the taxpayer federation party.?
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A little off topic, but has anyone checked out the new comment format and rules for the Sun and Province newspapers which will now require a link to a Facebook account. With an impending election and the majority of comments against the current ruling liberal government, one has to wonder; coincidence or by design. Any thoughts.
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By design.
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Not sure why they would just take Facebook ids.
They should probably allow Google, Yahoo, etc logins as well. Otherwise this coupled with their paywall it will tank their website.
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Three words: fake Facebook account
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Vancouver Real Estate = Drug Money
Just more proof that the so called free press is not free and that for the right price anything can be bought, even a journalists soul.
There has never been better seats in history to watch the theater of the collapse of civilized society into corruption and criminality. And the reporters of the day ignore the production and instead write about the firmness of their seat cushion. And the deafening sound of silence from professional writers that lets free speech disappear without so much as a whimper, fair comment erased without a trace or a peep from the so called fifth estate, defenders of freedom of speech, expression and ideas. So much for that myth. Seems like all those trips to China has paid off and they have caught the Communist writers disease, cowardice, complicity, accomplice. Censorship is the bastion of the dishonest that fear the light of day of the truth, the truth that shines light into dark places and shows the backroom deals and corruption for what they are, a destroyer of our democracy, a thief of our tomorrow a murder of our children’s future.
Wait for it, the next tick on the economic time bomb is about to tock.
And all the spin and hot air about a better tomorrow, will not fill one hungry belly, nor house one homeless citizen. What on earth will this province do with a over a million unemployed, homeless and hungry citizens, buy them bus tickets.
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ABSOLUTELY by design.
The MSM newspapers have been told to “do anything you can to defeat the socialists” translations = “do anything you can to make sure we can do anything we want whilst raping the taxpayers…”
Palmer, Good, Baldrey and even Smyth have also been told.
There will be NO BALANCED REPORTING from the MSM from now on. Mortgage your house on it.
The big wigs have met and decided and put the word out to the troops. You have to almost admire that slime GORDO. He and Kinsella knew once they controlled the MSM, they can do anything.
Alex, has that slimeball Kinsella left town yet?
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Patrick is still here but is transitioning to Scottsdale.
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For some time now, the Black Press papers have required that online comments be submitted via a Facebook account.
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Alex,
It’s a hunch – no more than that – but given how few people actually want to purchase copies of any PostMedia paper – where could they scrounge additional revenue?
How about an undeclared system – with companies like Facebook – that allows resale of private information for corporate data-mining of all PostMedia’s (mandatory) Facebook inductees?
A quid pro quo.
Such a fee exchange would mean that this sudden Imperial Demand – YOU WILL JOIN FACEBOOK OR BE SILENCED FOREVER! – is not about making the system more equitable, or any of that rubbish, but making it more lucrative.
To ‘explain’ one problem related to this innovation we see this…
http://www.theprovince.com/technology/story.html?id=7195492
“Q: Why can’t I see the comments?
“A: Comments on this site are public, which means they are visible whether or not you’re logged in to Facebook. If you cannot see the comments and you’re using a work computer, please check with your IT department. Some government agencies and other employers block Facebook domains and applications from their servers.”
WRONG: I don’t work for government. I am the IT department. NoScript is turned OFF. Kaspersky ‘allows’ the site. So does firewall Zone Alarm. But the Province’s COMMENTS STILL ARE NOT VISIBLE.
Will I return to The Province? For what?
Like the WSJ, The Times of London, the NYT, The Financial Post, etc. I’ll just wait till their readers reject them en masse and forces these venues to back off the viewer-and-commenter’s fees game.
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Second best and second worst
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/46581/saskatchewans-brad-wall-is-still-best-rated-premier-in-canada/
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No surprise whatsoever.
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I find it funny everyone is worried about Dix, while Christy and Steve are busy giveing away all of our natural resourses to COMMUNIST CHINA…..intresting?
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Oh good grief. As if the PM can stop a private company from selling assets to another private Canadian company, if if it is owned by Chinese interests.
And Christy isn’t selling a goddamned thing. Just a lot of promises and MOUs, that are all essentially meaningless.
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DHL is in China while Christy & her gang are there.
You don’t really think that nothing is being discussed about the sale of LDB do you?
Bob Mackin seems to think there’s “Sum Ting Wong Here!”
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Mackin’s column is a must read.
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this post is a doozzy. i am sure iam not the only one who thinks you may be just a tad to soft on these idiots(hahahahahahah). please next post tell us how you really feel.
glad the site is fixed almost had a breakdown yesterday cuz of it.
keep up the heat pal
cheers
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Interesting to see that the sun and province papers are changing the comment section to facebook,one new rule being that subjects before the courts are blocked.seems that chrusty is taking a page out of the chinese communist playbook.The local msm should change their name to Xinhau West.
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Makes one wonder if the papers bought shares in FaceBook and this is their way of sustaining the value – I got rid of my FaceBook account years ago – the FAD is over…Next. Human Nature gets bored and need new stimulus. Furthermore advertising money from real estate seems to be on the decline. What’s their strategy, and who’s the brain child behind this. You have no business without customers.
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Vancouver Real Estate = Drug Money
Just so you know where the Paul Godfrey the owner of most of the English Newspapers in British Colombia stands on what he thinks about you and your communities
http://taiyangbao.ca/?variant=zh-hans
It is a business decision you see, selling out to communists is just plain good business, just as is adopting the same censorship and fascists business practices. Hey slavery and lies is good business, as long as your the owner.
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Why would ads for sexual services involving adults negate the credibility of a publication?
Who cares what consenting adults get up to?
If they weren’t banned you can bet most MSM would be taking alcohol and tobacco ads. Plus, they have no problem taking political ads.
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Those ads are about degradation and tyranny.
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MSM is on the way out. Blogs are taking over. Peer to Peer News. Why send a reporter to cover a story when eye witnesses are all around and see developments first hand. Things are changing.
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“She’s the worst premier we’ve ever had” Not even close. Cambell beats her hands down.
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Total nonsense. Campbell was Churchill compared to her.
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You’re mistaken. Campbells bullshit was pulled over years, christy’s bullshit has all been over ONE year.
If she was given a decade believe me there would be no competition. Thankfully she just gets a year.
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Quite right.
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Just Curious…Has anyone heard the investigation of the SROs on CBC?? Richie Rich’s comments??? Ministry involvement and the Husband/Wife relationship and amount of Dollars spent…Another Nail…?? Not to mention the problem and that the VPD are not able to investigate (okay….just abit simplistic) Just askin??
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This is the most recent post with Rich’s comments.
CBC British Columbia @cbcnewsbc
Downtown Eastside property managers caught in perfect storm: Atira Property Management stands accused of serious… http://bit.ly/QGHKJQ
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This situation is ridiculous and an example of the legacy the olympics left behind. Hide the homeless/drug addicts at any cost, provide no security, basically no maintenance and hire junkies to take care of the whole thing…. What could go wrong?
I’m not much of a socialist but if you’re going to undertake something like housing the homeless and addicts do it right, with proper security, addiction services etc, or not at all.
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Court case with JVD possibly needs 2 more days in December how long can this drag out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmKGfUueYt8&feature=youtu.be
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I was there. He’s quite right.
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What are the chances it drags on past the election?
Good to know you were there… fighting for the public’s right to know.
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Well, I said to vanDongen in the hallway during the break, that at the speed it’s going, this could drag on until then.
That’s not inconceivable.
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For me, this all just seems so petty on a day like today. We’re stuck with leadership of low morals, and even lower ethics, flaunting it freely while others fall by the wayside daily.
Sometimes I wonder how this type of situation came to be, in a country that has numerous times called upon staunch will and determination to do the right thing, why can’t it extend to our political system? Our province is abused by someone like the current premiere in power, a place that many in the rest of the world would give everything to come to, is shamelessly taken for granted by people like her.
Here we are in one of the best places in the world, and I can only give pause to reflect on how utterly f’d up things are. I hope it does get better for all of us, as we are blessed to be here – I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else in this world. Hearing that a personal friend was dragged out of his consulate office today and murdered in Benghazi, it kind of makes you re-evaluate what you really care about in life. Sometimes on a day like today, I wonder what those people really care about.
Sorry for the quasi rant Alex, please don’t give them an inch of breathing room..
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I won’t.
Much appreciated.
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“I am Japanese at heart”. Domo Arigato Missy Roboto’.
Like the New Fake glasses.
On the other side of the pond, there is a rolling story. The tolls.
Ah! The tolls. When you get back from vacation, just get rid of those dammed tolls.
Mr White.
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well well well. the goodies are going to start rolling out. cut the tolls by half thats a start, only half a start. what else will they pretend to give us between now and the election day(when ever that will be), just to take it all back or not even implement if they get back in. just saw mike de jong on the news talking about job growth in bc. talk about having no ensthusiasum. my dog shows more excitment when i get the leash for a walk than good ol mikey.
anybody have any ideas what they will try and bribe us with. lets make a list. bet the truth about bc rail will not be on the list.
look, i mean really!!!. look these are exciting times in our province with exciting oppurtunities for our exciting bc families .right ,RIGHT,right, right,right. gotta go i have to open an exciting car show in bejing, right , right . pammy wait for me you have to hold my hand. i can,t cross the road by my self. pammy wwwaaaiitttt,wwwaaaaiittt, for me, boo hoo boo hoo
Cheers Alex
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Check out the speakers for We Day Vancouver…
http://www.freethechildren.com/blog/2012/09/we-day-toronto-vancouver-lineups.php
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I know. Appalling. Lorne Segalnis a friend of mine and a strong supporter of the program. I’m going to call him immediately.
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How the fuck does Christy Clark make a list that includes Desmond Tutu?
How is the premier who has driven child poverty to a record lowest level in the country asked to speak at an event promoting the freedom of children?
Holy shit, someone give your head a shake. Or does she have a political in somewhere? My lord this one takes the entire cake!
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I know. It’s outrageous.
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