There are no words to describe my disgust with VPD Chief Chu. Morale at an all time low…..’Porngate’…..the pussification of an entire department…..officers in complete depression…..the missing women’s inquiry revelations…..Penny Ballem barking orders during the Stanley Cup playoffs and the accompanying cover-up…..and of course, the riot, which could have been totally preventable if the Vancouver [...]

Through the kindness of a pal with a friendly station, I got to review the entire police press conference from last week (several times)–a press conference organized in response to my breaking news piece on the VPD’s ‘Porngate’. Some interesting points have come out of this and I encourage the mainstream press to pursue these [...]

The rumblings in the blue corridor on Cambie are getting progressively louder–and for good reason. Remember, if you will, when some internal Stanley Cup riot documents were leaked to radio station CKNW. Specifically, the document(s) confirming the information which you read on this blog days earlier: the number of police on the ground, battalion preparedness, [...]

There is trouble in paradise, or so says a senior city hall executive. As incredible as it may sound, Penny Ballem, the Gregor Robertson hand-picked, hamfisted city manager may be on the chopping block. Apparently, there is some kind of discord between her and a few of her understudies, possibly including Dave McLellan, or Hollyhock disciple [...]

The world became an even more fragile place in 2011. Good didn’t often trump evil. We endured war, pestilence, disease, murder, uprisings, Charlie Sheen and Kim Kardashian–since we’re to include all major disasters, even the insignificant ones. Well, you know what I mean… Picking the top news stories of the year wasn’t easy. There were [...]

As I suspected, Vision Vancouver swept to victory last night and the single most dangerous man ever to be elected Mayor is returned for another three years. The latest polls about Suzanne Anton closing the gap were meaningless. As I will show you below, Vision Vancouver have found a formula to win, and they won’t [...]

Last week, when the ‘Mayor Moonbeam’ video was pulled from YouTube, I called the licence holder of the tune ‘Mr. Sandman’ (made a huge hit in 1954 by ‘The Chordettes’. I wanted to know why they pulled it. It turns out that they had no idea about the video–and let’s face it, it would have [...]

It is an invariable disappointment to read Pete McMartin’s column in the Vancouver Sun this morning. To be brutally frank, based on its steady incoherence I must wonder aloud how such an error-riddled piece left the editor’s desk. I have long been an advocate of editors not only being responsible for orthographical nudges, but reality [...]

Summer afternoons are for watching your children frolic in the surf or play in the sand. They aren’t for jarring reminders of how cold and cutting life can be. As I opened the National Post on an early August afternoon in 2010  and began reading about the murder of Cortes Island artist Stefano Savioli, a rapid [...]

I don’t usually do public appearances as it ends up being about me and not the event. Certainly, there are members of the press or media that have much higher profiles and great star power. I’m not one of them because I have worked awfully hard to ensure I can have dinner at a restaurant [...]