‘EXCLUSIVE’ Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver Don’t Care About the Safety of School Children–Black Ice Hits Vancouver and Only Bike Lanes Get Serviced!
Global warming huckster Al Gore recently sold his share in the far left leaning Current TV for a reported $100,000,000. He founded the station with his partner in grime, millionaire lawyer Joel Hyatt (founder of Hyatt Legal Services).
The story never received any significant coverage in the liberal ravaged Canadian media. Mind, it’s tough getting a story out on something this significant when your priorities range from injured dogs to Brian Burke’s woes (these may be redundant).
The hypocrisy of global warming/climate change fools is what I’m getting at, and it was manifest this morning.
First a little on their high priest, for context.
Gore sold his station to al-Jazeera. For those of you unfamiliar with the genesis of this evil network, it routinely features terrorist messages from al-Qaeda and one of their producers was recently arrested for being a Taliban operative.
More to the point, they are fuelled (pun intended) by BIG OIL! Imagine! Gore selling to big oil. al-Jazeera was birthed in Qatar by oil sheiks, who not only don’t care about global warming, they relish in it. Well, now they’ve got a foothold of the American cable market with subscribers in 60,000,000 American homes (this was reduced by 12,000,000 thanks to the principled folks at Time Warner, who refuse to carry the new al-Jazeera version of Current).
It all speaks to the hypocrisy of the green movement and how they couldn’t give a rats derriere about you or the planet–it’s about using mother earth to string the willing dupes along, just to make money or advance themselves.
Remember Andrew Weaver, who is running for the Greens in Victoria? Well, he actually made phone calls in support of the IPP-promoting, fish farm-loving, BC Liberals in the 2009 election. Of course, it had nothing to do with grants thrown around by the provincial government, nooo, not at all.
Remember David Suzuki, whose charity finally had a proper audit a few years ago. Well, he used to fly several times a week from his home in Port Hardy to Vancouver. No pollution issues there, no siree…
Though, there can be no greater political green fraud than what we endure in Vancouver. I speak, of course, of the vicious movement known as Vision Vancouver.
These people are sick–truly sick. From their bizarre initiatives encouraging chicken coops and wheat gardens to expensive bike lane counters, the city of Vancouver has ground to a halt in terms of infrastructure services. I recently enjoyed listening to my old friend Heather Deal lie without a hint of shame, about what the city was providing with respect to de-icing and road clearing.
And then, we have this morning’s nightmare.
If you were on any of the roads, main or otherwise, in Vancouver today, you’d have seen the nightmare that Vision Vancouver have delivered to the people.
Black ice everywhere, accidents galore, buses stranded, people falling and hurting themselves while taking their kids to school (including my wife, who has a badly bruised knee) and not one goddamned street service crew in action.
I drove around in my SUV for two hours, just to see what was happening.
Oh wait, I saw one crew in action: In the bloody bike lane on Dunbar!!! The rest of the city was in a shambles, but the commute to school today proved beyond hazardous!
For those who missed it, just highlights from across the city:
• ELEVEN accidents on Kingsway alone. FOUR on Main. SEVEN on the west side, FIVE on the DTES (this just from what a VPD pal reported to me early this morning).
• Buses lined up and out of service all along Mackenzie Street–SIX of them at one point.
• A city service vehicle STRANDED on a curb off 35th almost at Main, with a salt truck parked behind it. The dimwitted driver was more interested in his colleague’s dilemma than getting his ass on the roads and making sure taxpaying citizens weren’t in identical predicaments.
• 41st Avenue, which runs along from UBC to the east side, a solid sheet of black ice.
But on two bike lanes, I witnessed with my own eyes, city workers trying to get a patch of ice broken up in one and a similar problem in the other…while the streets were ice rinks!!!
You stupid bastards at City Hall that think this is at all acceptable!
Mind you, what’s the point: As long as Peter Armstrong and his destructive crew are going to dismantle the NPA (like they haven’t killed it already) these political hooligans with Vision can play these games with the lives of citizens all they like. As long as Peter is busy puckered as Suzanne Anton and Mike Klassen’s bottoms, Vision can laugh this one off all day long. They will ruin this city, mark my words. All while the NPA have allowed completely incompetent leaders to wage an internecine war.
But hey, it’s ALL Vision, my darlings. And their tyranny!
Just so long as the empty bike lanes are clear! Listen, anyone in a bike lane when it’s freezing weather deserves their injuries. Only a complete moron would venture out into the ice and snow on a bicycle.
Stupid, stupid bastards with Vision Vancouver, I sincerely hope just the half dozen victims I know–just from falls on city streets this morning, lawyer up and sue Penny Ballem, Gregor Robertson and every damn Vision councillor for everything they’re worth.
Useless jerks.
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Did anyone notice political sellout Sandy Garossino on the news last night??? She’s Joel Solomon’s new media instrument. A very fine prosecutor in her day, Garossino, years later, waged decent and principled wars against the Vegas-style casino once slated for downtown Vancouver, and against density insanity for Vision’s developer pals. But that was before she stabbed most of her political supporters in the back and became a sellout for the extremism of the green-crazy Tides Foundation, which funds Vision Vancouver. Anyway, for the benefit of the blind players on the center-right who missed it, Garossino was on Global last night, bloviating about the “cultural space” at the old Waldorf. Her quote was interesting. That’s where Vancouver’s “future begins.” Really? Not in the classrooms of schools and universities that bookend this city? Not in machine shops or trades facilities? Not in libraries or after school tutorial halls? The future of this city begins, according to Sandy Gassbag in a dingy room, with strung out DJs and doped up followers. Marvelous! Brilliant! After Vision used the cycling and skateboarding anarchists to fill the ballot boxes, now they’re going after the arts kiddies.
All while vital viaducts are destroyed and the city generally falls apart.
Except for bike lanes.
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On the road again this week, chasing down more BC Liberal stories.
I’ll give you the Mackin piece later tonight and show you how Christy’s people are intimidating and using their media friends to advance their cause.
Stay tuned.
Just a brief comment on Al Gore and his connection to Big Oil. Al has been connected to Big Oil through his and his father’s association with Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum his entire life.
I’ve always gotten a laugh out of descriptions of GW Bush as part of “big oil” but the fact that the Gore family was owned by even “bigger oil” was never mentioned.
Google Armand Hammer/Al Gore for a real eye opener on the biggest hypocrite on the planet.
btw,I’ve heard a rumor that the BC Liberal government is going to axe the carbon tax as a pre-election bribe to us peasants. Have you heard anything along this line,Alex!
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Yes, I have an am trying to confirm this. It would be a huge loss in revenue. I don’t know how they’d balance it off.
Mind, they should have never enacted it in the first place. It’s just a tax grab. What they should have done, instead, is go for a flat fee for transit projects and skip the tolls etc, altogether. Or just cap them at $1.00.
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I’ve heard that before.. If the carbon tax was/is revenue neutral how could axing it be a loss of revenue?
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It’s never been revenue neutral. That’s the big lie they’ve been selling forever!
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Like the HST was supposed to be revenue neutral?
Just another lie foisted upon us by a govt that is bankrupt(fiscally AND morally)
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It’s a confusing situation too because the BCNDP ran with “Axe the Tax” and then have said almost nothing about it ever since.
So now we’ve come full circle I guess. Politics is weird.
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An excellent point!
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They’ve just increased the booze tax by 8% in lieu of the carbon tax and HST collapse.
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spoke to a friend that just moved from BC back to Quebec.
a case of beer(12 bottles) was $13.00. We pay $22.00.
So much for BC’s “people first” propaganda
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The HST was revenue neutral as well. Oops, well we’ll use the money for hospitals and schools. Oops, well it’s going to make business more competitive. Oops, OK that’s just all little white lies. It was a huge tax transfer from the corporate sector to the people but we’ll have a referendum and show you all how good it is for you and you’ll vote for it. And if you don’t then you’re all just stupid and gullible. I mean we’re going to spend millions promoting it with little stick men (the opposite of the fat cats you see in the Liberal caucus.) And the ‘Zalm is an idiot. right? Right?
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How about Molson Canadian Beer in the states is 6.00 per dozen
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Yeah, it’s amazing. They sell better beer than their own for cheaper than we buy it here!
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It’s like the poodle for $60,000 they put up at 18th and Main. Quebec artist, no public input on what reflects the neighborhood and according to City Hall employee on Global Saturday night no big deal this is just drop in the bucket of money for these types of things. More to come. So much for fiscal responsibility, just keep taxing, to hell with affordability; just keep the money coming for what ever Vision wants to spend it on. Also goes to show, once again, city hall doesn’t care what the local communities want Vision knows best.
See City Hall will be voting on increasing fines by up to 400% on Tuesday 15th. Meggs says “they” need more of a deterrent. (straight talk page 13 Jan 10 – 17 issue). Thought they were supposed to be open minded before public hearings. Looks like once again Vision has already decided the outcome. And another money grab by the city and a further deterrent to those who disagree with city hall. So much for democracy.
Out of control.
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I know. Totally outrageous.
A poodle in mid-air!!! What a bunch of idiots.
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Isn’t a lot of that arts funding part of federal grants? I know of quite a few stupid uses of grant money in the tri-cities area for public art / beautification projects, where the motto was ‘it’s not out of our budget so lets spend it all’.
Either way, idiotic waste of tax payer money, no matter what level of government it’s coming from.
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The choice of dogs speaks volumes.
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great post alex.
i hope your wife is resting ,it could have been a hell of a lot worst. how many broken hips, icbc claims, and lost productivity hours we must endure again just for a few cyclist ?
hell lets put a bicycle lane on the viaducts and then they will be safe
my friends vision is just an example of the future ndp goverment and dix is proving me right
lets declare the tiki bar at the waldorf a heritage site and then invest millions to convert the rooms to social housing
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and Harry….your alternative to the LIEberals or the God Squad would be…..?????
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Based on the ndp’s opposition effort over many consecutive years now, I consider them no less incompetent than the libs, cons or vision.
And I consider the libs, squad and vision parties to be REALLY incompetent.
So BC Forever…your alternatives to the Libs, cons, vision and ndp would be…?
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The temps are going below zero overnight until friday. This coupled with an ongoing drizzle and frozen or very cold roads, sidewalks and grounds means this morning was the template for the next five mornings.
As for the Waldorf. Since when did that shit hole with a nice sign become the flavour of Vancouver?
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Good question! GREAT QUESTION! Someone should ask Sandy Gassbag, the sellout, to explain herself. Vancouver’s future stems from the underground spinners and DJs at the Waldorf???
Maybe she’s been inhaling what they have.
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The ONLY time I remember the Waldorf being an “Iconic Landmark” was back in the early 1980′s after the PNE parade finished and all the clowns went to the Waldorf to get absolutely hammered as some kind of weird ‘right of passage”.
Have you ever seen two drunken clowns beat the shit out of each other while a mob of even drunker clowns egged them on?
Its not pretty.
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Total agreement.
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My memories of the Waldorf is seeing two bouncers throw a drunk out the entrance and the guy was airborne about 4 feet off the ground for about 10 feet and landed in the middle of the sidewalk.
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Yeah, I’ll tell you, that Jim Green was lighter than he looked…
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AHAHAHAHAHAHA
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The Hollyhock Mafia in City Hall is proof enough: Agenda 21 has taken Vancouver. Without candidates free of brainwashing, it’s all downhill from here.
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You can bet on it!
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What will they be on about now that their global warming BS has been disproved?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261577/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-Met-Office-report-reveals-MoS-got-right-warming–deniers-now.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
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Which B.C. Liberal MLA just quit the party???, I only caught the tail end of the news story on NW
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John Slater! I told you all it would start to happen!!!
This could be the snag in her sweater. Let’s hope.
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Holy crap!!, that majority she needs to cling to power is getting slimmer and slimmer!!!, me thinks fireworks are about to start Alex.
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I know. And all because they weren’t prepared to support Slater in the next election!!!
Something’s brewing, just watch.
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abbottsford south part 2?
more mass resignations of a local executive?
and best of all, do the 4 independants form a new center/right party?
the liberals party cited “personal” problems that made slater an undesirable choice for them….. what was wrong, did he stand up for the people who voted for him? was he honest about something?
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well so far the president of the riding executive has resigned…..
who needs soap opera’s when you have CC at the helm of the libs?
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They really are incredibly stupid people to have treated any MLA like this.
But I’m hardly surprised…this is Christy’s team. They couldn’t organize a screw in a whorehouse…hey wait minute…
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I’m reading that as
“couldn’t find a screw in a warehouse”…
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Aren’t you a sharp tack…
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I try to get a point across…
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Part Deux, on the way!
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So we now have 4 independents in the Legislature.
What would their standing be in the current Legislative session if they decided to come together as a group?
And then horrors of horrors if two Liberals decided they couldn’t stay as Liberals and became Independents we would have a deadlock in the Legislature.
Now is the time for any Liberals who have some semblance of integrity to walk away from the Liberal side and sit as Independents.
Liberal Speaker NDP Independent
Today 44 1 36 4
2 more Libs leave 42 1 36 6
Who knows, we may end up seeing a more than normal number of independents running in the next election – with no expectation of forming government but willing to address the issues local to their community.
The smart thing [IMHO] would be not to form a coalition but to let the Liberals swing in the wind.
What is particularly interesting in all of this is – Mr. Slater has some personal issues that make him not fit to be a Liberal candidate. Based on what we see about the current crop of Liberals one has to wonder what Mr. Slater’s sin might be. Perhaps he passed the integrity test and found to be a person with some moral character.
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That majority is getting shakier , something tells me she is going to be put over a barrel, all it takes is 2 more defections, and her and her dimbel bells will lose control, and possibly out on their asses
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There are more than two that could walk. Stay tuned!
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Oh Alex!!, your cruel dangling that tantalizing morsel!!!, I guess she will be staying in the bunker a few extra days!!!, just when she thought the coast was clear
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Just threading the detonator…
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KABOOM ????
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Ah! And when I asked about this a few momths ago, you didn’t think this would be possible..What do you think the tipping point was or will be ? If not just a single issue, what would be the top ones? I assume that this group will still honour cabinet and caucus confidentiality? What can they share and not share?
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I can’t say anything yet. Stay tuned!
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How many more sleeps?! Seriously, will this possibly lead to the scenario where she will have to step down or will the finger of blame be pointed at the Liberal Party brass and back room players instead? I know, I know, be patient.
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Needs six to form a caucus. All you have now are 4 independents. If there’s 6 or more it means more collective money for a research person
etc. etc and they would be able to vote as a group (they can now, but the succession order in Question Period becomes NDP, the Independents (group) rather than each one independent after another one.
The Speaker only votes if there is a tie. It would be very unlikely he would vote against his own government.
In regards to Slater it is usually financial or there’s something that shows up in a record that affects being a candidate or not. Most instances it is financial.
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What are you going on about now???
If two more govt MLAs bolt and join up with the current four, en masse, en bloc, the govt falls.
Sometimes, it’s like you want the BC Liberals to survive. Geezus…
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Simple but yes it means the government falls.
and no I do not want the BC Liberals to survive. It will mean some idiots will keep getting government appointments and a few in particular get to keep getting paid to do nothing of any value to the taxpayers. One of them is Pamela Martin of course, but there are others…
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Seymour, I think your mistaken on this one.
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You mean this John Slater?
http://www.osoyoostimes.com/news/2013/01/09/liberal-partys-treatment-of-mla-slater-is-shady-and-shabby/
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Precisely…stay tuned!
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“Mr. Slater’s candidacy is not being approved due to personal issues that, in our view, impact his ability to represent the party,” White wrote in the statement. “The party sought a co-operative solution through discussions with John. This is not a decision taken lightly and is fully considered.”
which is kind of at odds with slaters statement that he filed his papers for nomination over 3 months ago and could not get a response from the party about his staus with them in regards to his nom.
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More bullshit from the BC Liberals.
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Sounds like the riding association is quitting too, they are pissed at how the Liberal party operates!!!, this is getting juicy,
Any Intel yet Alex?
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Working on it.
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They should be made to explain their insinuation,
they are playing dirty pool with him, and his reputation, typical liberal slimy modus operandi
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Just like Coleman did to vanDongen!!!
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cbc is now reporting slater will run in may as an independant….and that would mean an ndp mla i would think.
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Guaranteed. He should run!
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Just heard him Questioned, he doesn’t know what the liberal party are talking about Concerning his personal issues.
Says he was froze out
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Looks like another good story has landed gift wrapped by Christy, on your lap Alex
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You bet!
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They have already started a whisper campaign that he’s a drunk…
Unbelievable. These people have no shame.
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Uhm, has anyone seen Premier honey boo boo drink??
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Yup. I have. It ain’t pretty.
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A drunk so does that mean he will be vacationing in Maui.
At least they didn’t play the “Mental Case” card this time
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Good grief! He was musing what was important in his life after his mother died. A human and natural reaction to death! He then was talked into running again by many constituents. Bulling a man who is still working through grief is odious and dispicable!
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Surely your point is that they should have had crews making roads safer, not that they should not have had crews making that bike lane safer.
I ride regularly but don’t vote Vision. Please don’t lump me in with that crew just because i commute by bike. Many conservatives do. I want the bike lane to be safe and usable, AND the roads too.
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No, of course not. I want cyclists safe, too, but c’mon, no one is cycling on ice and if they are, they’ve lost it. It was a skating rink out there this morning, I’ve never seen anything like it in Vancouver.
They should have been servicing the roads, first.
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You haven’t lived until you finished work one early morning and you rode home on frosty roads on a large heavy motorcycle.
You rode in the day before because it was bright and sunny.
I’ve done it.
Riding along a street and seeing the road uphill ahead with frost patches on it was a bit of a sight too.
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That’s nuts!
I’m Harley guy.
After dusk, you should be in a beat up Western bar outside of Flagstaff with a beautiful girl.
A green eyed, beautiful girl…so there’s some contrast between the fly wings between your teeth and the tequila in your glass…
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I got around everywhere by motorcycle. Even rode around town while I did office business, but those were on warm sunny August days.
Then there was the day when I worked, and it started snowin’ outside,
and it was nice and dry in the morning.
Got home before snow covered the roads.
But barely.
Been through Flagstaff.
No fly wings. Those ended up on the colour matched Vetter Windjammer fairing..
A itttle Turtle Wax got that baby nice and polished.
Live to ride, ride to live.
Geezus I miss doin’ that.
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Me too!
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You have to remember seeing motorists slipping and sliding to the hospital and/or icbc is not a bad thing in a greenie’s mind as they feel it’s just another negative in people’s minds against driving cars.
Now an injury to a lunatic bicyclist riding his bike to work in an inch of ice or snow would be a disaster to them.
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Of course! Makes perfect sense when you’re nuts! LOL!
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i spoke to a retired vancouver fire man today , he told me that even the fire trucks were having difficulty and were stuck waiting for sanding crews.this am.
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Because the bloody roads weren’t salted.
The bike lanes were!
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Yup the bike lane on 10th is clear as bell. Well salted 11th, 13th etc not so much.
Maybe some inquisitive MSM investigative journalist could start a FOI to find out what direction city crews were given, resources, priorities, dollars etc. Then compare that to what they used to be before Vision took over and started implementing Agenda 21.
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Oh, let there be no doubt about it: The radical green agenda is destroying the city and has made streets and citizens less safe on all sorts of fronts. Money is constantly being cut from essential services to make way for more eco-insanity.
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The FOI request isnt necessary. The head of Street Maintenance was asked this very question several weeks ago and he said they had 7 crew trucks dealing just with bike lanes…. “It was a priority”…..
And then he shrugged his shoulders…. just following orders.
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As for your comments on the Tide Foundation has anyone uncovered any ties between them and the Idle No More movement? I saw a report on this several days ago but haven’t heard anything more. I know Tides were tied at the hip with the Occupy people
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Oh you bet! They’re a very nasty group. They should be kicked out of Canada!
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AGT, let’s not let the superintendents of the outside guys off the hook either. When it’s 4 am and someone is deciding whether or not to salt the roads, it’s probably not the mayor. When someone guts the maintenance budget (and since it’s now January and should be flush with cash), THAT’s the mayor’s fault. Both parties culpable, IMO.
But, I will say – that was some weird icy stuff this am – like an ice drizzle – glad I drive a Subaru…and I won’t be biking home this pm!
Now, this is from the City’s website today:
“The variable weather and temperatures have created uneven road and sidewalk conditions throughout the city and problems are expected to continue. Further freezing rain is projected to last until tomorrow morning. Pedestrians and motorists are urged to use caution.”
Note: cyclists are not mentioned, presumably because the bike lanes are scraped, sanded, salted and “safe”!
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But the supers and outside guys take orders from upon high! That’s Gregor and his cadre of eco-fascists.
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Idle No More.
Does that mean they are getting jobs?
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No! It’s called ‘Idle Some More’!
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So I’m sitting here reading about a major political story. Ten I thought maybe I’d watch the evening news to get the full story.
Not A F^*#ing word on Global.
An absolutely useless News media.
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Maybe Bill Good Will have some insight tomorrow morning.
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LOL!
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With the Slater move today, I would think the Liberal brass must be ready to act quickly to keep power– ie getting Christy to step out, bringing another leader in and delaying the election, if they possibly can. I can’t see them wanting the government to fall if they can hold on.
Your thoughts…..
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Tough call at this point. But I’m starting to hear that there is indeed a movement to boot Christy.
If they do that, watch the BC Liberal poll numbers jump ten points.
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I hope Translink is yelling their heads off at the city for crippling the bus system today. The City of Vancouver was derelict in its duties this a.m. I get it, they don’t have snowplows. There’s no excuse for not salting. Hope Mrs. AGT is feeling ok.
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Vancouver used to be great at getting the main roads cleared. It was wonderful. I might be skidding everywhere in Bby. or Richmond, but Vancouver was always good. so if they aren’t clearing the streets, some politician must be responsible because the guy who has always run the works yard seemed to get the job done, unless he has retired.
The bike lanes are stupid. I hadn’t driven yet in areas which had them. In Nov. I did, when I came into town. They have a bike lane going up Kerr road from Marine Dr. Who the hell is going to bike up that hil except for a high performance cyclist. Who the hell would want to go up or down that street in bad weather. You could get killed.
Then I went to Rupert st. That was entertaining all on its own. Going up the hill from 12th you have cars parked on the curb, a bike lane up a steep hill, then a narrower car lane. I’d rather bike along No. 6 Rd. in the dark than go up Rupert st. on a bike. At least if I get hit on no. 6 rd. I land in water. I won’t be crushed between the moving & parked cars. Who the hell is going to use bike lanes up & down steep hills? Not the majority of people.
What I don’t get is on such streets as Rupert & Kerr, why didn’t they put the bike lanes one street over in the residential streets. It would be a hell of lot safer.
The cost of these bike lanes is way too much. This is not Europe. I know bike lanes. We are from Rotterdam. My sister still goes back every year. Our cousins bike to work–a few Ks. down the street, on a flat road. There are more bikes than cars. There is rapid public transportation which is excellent.
North America is a car “driven” society, no pun intended. Prior to cars people used horses much more here than they did in Europe. It had to do with distance. In Europe you can drive from Rotterdam to Paris in 8 hrs. It takes 9 hrs to get from lVancouver to Prince George. Vancouver is not going to be a “bike” city in any sense that europe is. Any one who thinks that is going to happen needs to get off of what they are drinking or smoking. Once Robertson & Vision are tossed out the door, a lot of those bike lanes are going to disappear. It is a waste of money.
I am left of centre. believe we need to protect the enviornment but those bike lanes just don’t make sense.
As to the Waldorf, give me a break. Its a bar & it isn’t in a hertiage building. I thought that was were the longshoremen drank. The people at the “save the waldorf” protest might want to get a grip & protest about dirty hospital, hungry kids, & homelessness. Protesting because your favorite water hole might close? They need to get a grip on reality.
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You should see the bike lane slicing Angus Drive in half at 41st Avenue.
Always empty–always! And the cause of several accidents.
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ahh, thank you for this!! I haven’t talked to one person who doesn’t think it’s beyond ridiculous, but we all sit back and take it! I I’m on the horn with 311 enough so that they know my name, and just about every person I talk to sounds sympathetic and like they agree, but their hands are tied. days like this are another slap in the face for business, especially small business who are paying insane amounts of property tax for virtually nothing. oh, and four hundred percent??? that makes me about four hundred times LESS likely to fork over cash to them. I’m negatively suggestible that way.
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You should have heard me on 311 this morning while on the way to dropping my son off at school.
I thought I was gonna need to revive George, he was laughing so hard.
I let them have it: BOTH BARRELS. And left my name, thanks.
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haha, good for you, I call them all the time, with varying degrees of response. it was when I called to ask why the reflective bumps on the road on prior are so far north of the painted line that they said my name before I could tell them! I’d still like to know the answer to that one, though I think I’m alone in that. funny how an organization can lose track of its basic goals so quickly. keep the damn roads and bridges clear and in good shape, and well lit, keep the parks clean and the pla
nts healthy instead of turning them into paved skate parks (Grandview) look after the schools and make life better for the people of Vancouver instead of punishing them for not drastically adopting the lifestyle you’ve decided they should have. sheesh. affordability task force my ass. They’re giving a helping hand to make life here more expensive in every way…while driving down business!
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The gal I got on the line this morning was shell-shocked, trust me.
7:50am and they made me wait for twenty minutes before I got on. Useless bastards.
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Last year, 2012, was the hottest year on record. EVER.
Opinions are great, enlivening and fun.
But never confuse opinions for fact. Climate change denial and refuting science is becoming horribly out of style. Silly really.
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Total and complete nonsense. Take your climate change lies and propaganda elsewhere.
I don’t do things because their popular of cool. Science is about discovery, not consensus or political correctness.
Bye bye.
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Great read Alex!
For all you Global Warming, Climate Change Control Freaks go to:
http://www.friendsofscience.org/ Read it and weep!
Gore family has alway’s been Big Oil and Armand Hammer of the American Socialist Party has been a big, big, backer of Gore Jr. financial backing in politics. Google it up, it’s pretty common info.
Again Alex, great read!
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Thanks. Much appreciated.
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News reports suggest that evil road conditions in North Van, Surrey, etc., as well. Is that the fault of the Mayor of Vancouver as well?
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What an idiotic question.
Those cities weren’t busy prioritizing goddamned bike lanes that remain empty, over roads that are used by parents to deliver their children to school. Surrey had salters out beginning at 4am.
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um, I grew up in north van and go there all the time to see my parents. when it starts to snow, they salt, including side streets because they budget for it and if they don’t, people WILL get hurt because it is on the slope of a mountain! I’ve been asked if it was nuts d riving there, and I can’t really recall too many crazy incidents. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s always perfect, but you can count on crews to do their jobs eventually because they realize it is far too dangerous to “let the vehicles break down the snow” and morally wrong to take money from the general population to be spent on a select few, in terms of snow removal.
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North Vancouver is a great city. They care about people. So is Surrey, New West, Burnaby, too.
Almost every single city or municipality in the Lower Mainland has people who care running the show.
Except Vancouver, where vicious, nasty bastards force their eco-theocracy onto citizens. They’re DISGUSTING. Cycling fascists and eco-pigs.
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slicing Angus dr. in half, at 41st???? you hve got to be kidding, no I know you’re not. While I’m in town in Feb. I will go have a look. This I gotta see. We were looking how to entertain our Dutch cousins this summer. I have the perfect comedy tour for them. Show them Vancouver’s bike lanes. I’ll let you know.
Climate change. Yes, as if a few bike riders are going to change all of that. If people believe climate change is really happening as the result of humans then they should stop buying all the junk coming out of China. they should start insisting that all countries adhere to the same rules & not try to give exemptions to “developing countries”.
I believe there is such as a thing as climate change. My questions are around, is it caused by humans. Scientists know the climate has changed during the course of history but there weren’t any people around or very few when it happened. My suggestion is people focus on pollution. that is real immediate. It kills. Does pollution cause climate change? I don’t know. I do know some researchers discovered that about 11 thousand yrs ago there was such a sevre drought on southern vancouver island that the trees didn’t grow. We know there were areas of the world which were lush & green & had cities with decent sized populations where there is now desert. There wasn’t any “modern” industry, etc. around at the time so we can’t say it was caused by humans.
We don’t need to get on band wagons, just use common sense. You don’t foul water you might have to drink some day. You don’t toss dangerous chemicals into the ground, you don’t dump garbage in oceans, you know the sort of stuff you would know when you were about 5. I always laugh when a new cell phone comes out & they line up to buy new ones. Just how enviornmental is that?? You don’t need a new phone every 6 months. What do people think happens to their old ones, which still work. What do we take from the earth to make new cell phones, etc.
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I live in South Shaughnessy, about four blocks from the Angus Drive bike cut off.
I cannot tell you how many times my son and I, who walk the area often, have seen ambulances and cop cruisers tending to some accident or dispute right at that bike lane. It’s bloody outrageous.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO NEED for that bike lane. In fact, the only person I’ve ever seen in it, is that witch Suzanne Anton. Same dimwit I saw in the Dunbar bike lane two summers ago. Since then, I’ve seen NO ONE in either.
It’s a goddamned disgrace.
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Thought of The Night
“Let me in, let me in, little pig or I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in!”
And that’s how Sandy G. started her “Woman in Red” Love-In, at the Waldorf the other day.
https://twitter.com/Bill_McCreery/status/290596222518042625/photo/1
No, I wasn’t there.
That’s a Bill McCreery shot. If you look closely, you may notice in the back row, slightly to the left, the VanCourier and Vision’s opinion writer, comrade Allen Garr doodling happily during the Garospeach.
If I’m honest, by the look of it, the majority were either texting, reading E-mail, or playing games.
Unfortunately, you are right about SG. She has been Solomonized!
It happened from the very first moment she accepted to produce an editorial in the Vancouver Observer, headed by the Pulitzer “nominated” Linda Malinda.
Her ad hominem attacks at Vivian Krause were pitiful, and clearly directed by the Hollyhock mafia.
As for the El Gregor, the “No Vision” cabal, or Heather “The 40km/hour” Deal… what can I say, every time I type their names, I get blisters in the tips of my fingers.
Too bad that this band of shysters took over this city when everyone was looking away.
To say that Vancouver got the “leadership” it deserves, would be an understatement. The Sade-Masochism Games are in town people!
And you are not the ones holding the whip, naw, you are the ones tied up by the bedpost, with your cutout leather pants showing the cheeks!
Oh, yeah baby!
Vision gang feels pretty comfortable in their pink skins these days. They think they could keep it like this for ever! Not so fast.
“Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!”
We live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.
PS.
I just found out that you have graciously became one of the sponsors of this month’s #PoliticsNotAsUsual (28th of Jan.) hosted by the Burgundy Luncheon Club at The Clutch.
Hats off to you Alex! A good man for a good cause, as parts of the proceeds are going to the “Adopt a School” Program (Grandview Elementary).
Kudos!
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Oops,
Here’s a info. link to that BLC gathering at The Clutch:
https://tickets.thecultch.com/default.asp
GR-eetings!
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Thanks pal. Introduce yourself. I’ll be there with a friend.
It would be my privilege.
As soon as Rick pointed out where those kids were headed in life I almost broke out in tears. No breakfast, no lunch.
It’s the least I could do.
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Why would any party want to jettison an MLA that won his seat with a vote margin that was 216 votes greater than their leader won hers?
Did Slater make the mistake of boasting about it?
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Mayor Robertson, your bike lanes have qualified the Burrard St/Pacific Ave (north end of the Burrard Bridge) intersection to be in Canada’s top 10 most dangerous intersections. I find it hard to believe how after the trial period of several months you decided that the bike lanes on the Burrard Bridge are still a good/safe idea.
http://ca.autos.yahoo.com/news/most-dangerous-intersections-in-canada-171556681.html
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Well Thanks for the info regarding our dictator in our city but some how you forget to mention that on Sunday he was on national news asking the federal government to fork out more money do to the fact the city of Vancouver Growth is lucking the infrastructural bases for transit ,and the traffic in Vancouver is bad ….Well the idiots in the city hall if they continue to take away lanes from traffic and giving them to bikes how on earth are we going to make the deliveries to the markets that he gives licence to operate in downtown without parking and delivery bays .Can you really imagine him going to the Government asking for money and the turn around telling you make Vancouver like Honk Kong make the deliveries with rickshaw .And also about climate chance Earth want to this extremes before and without pollution what was the excuse at that time .They are charging us for carbon taxes on Natural gas Check and see what is the reason for that .Federal Government is payed by us for the infrastructural bases like bridges and national roads by out illegal as per 1975 income tax and they have to maintain them why to we have to pay toll on the bridges especially that it is on a federal maintained hwy #1
Why this dictator planing on tarring down the viaduct Federal Government pay for a connector from Hwy # 1 to Hwy 99 via downtown Vancouver Not only they spent the money some place other then this project but now they want to destroy even the entrance to heart of Vancouver
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You raise excellent points, my friend.
Nice to have you here. HAppy New Year.
Be well.
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The NPA is faced with a conundrum: they’ve always been a developer driven party yet their voting base is now predominantly anti-development single-family homeowners. Until they deal with that, Robertson and his merry band of idiots will keep getting elected.
Alex, any thoghts on whether Robertson might jump ship for a federal seat in the next election? I can see him being courted by Trudeau-led Liberals. He’d fit right in: pretty, but out of his depth.
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Correct and correct.
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“I drove around in my SUV for two hours, just to see what was happening.”
translation: I thought I’d contribute to the problem by disregarding the very sensible advice being given out that morning by every major media outlet in town: avoid unnecessary travel.
Nice work Alice.
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Oh! The moron’s back! Hey, hey, Mr. Eco-Fascist! I have snow tires on and wasn’t contributing to any problem.
Of course, you won’t comment on the fact that the post I did here contributed significantly to having a “priorities review” at the city, so that the policy of clearing the bike lanes, FIRST, for the three eco-freaks (like you) still stupid enough to be using them in the winter, gets tossed!
No comment on your global warming heroes selling TV stations to terrorist loving organizations and big oil? No kissy face for Al Gore anymore? How bout your other hero Gregor, who is busy tkaing away community centers from children and the elderly so that he can jack up fees to pay for all the eco-BULLSHIT you support.
Chris, you’re a fool. Go away.
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