Last Friday I received a call from one of the kindest chaps I’ve ever met in politics. “Hey, guess what? You were right, Suzanne’s in. She’s actually running for Mayor. We’re finished. I don’t know how you get this stuff before the rest of us, but you called it months ago and I didn’t believe you.” [...]

With all the provincial and now federal stories I’ve been doing, the Mayor of Vancouver and his moribund party have, as a result, been getting a breather. Until now. It’s bad enough that they’ve been caught in dozens of outright lies since they were elected. It’s bad enough that their incompetence is driving this city [...]

I’m not some moralistic hypocrite. I’ve gambled before, but I’m a rarity: I’m a very good gambler and it’s why I stay away. I rarely lose, but I rarely play. When I go to Vegas, if I’m down five hundred dollars, I’ll either load up and sit for another round, how ever long it takes [...]

There is nothing worse, in my estimation, than the media being used. But after the last two months of watching Christy Clark peel away the mask she wore for four years, only to reveal how she was clearly a broadcasting tourist, this morning’s story should come as no surprise. After the media barely laid a [...]

I’ve always liked Jill Bennett. She’s intelligent, feisty and informed. I like her for the same reason as I do Simi Sara, who I also think does a top-notch job for NW. Yesterday, Bennett gave what I consider one of THE BEST editorials I’ve heard on CKNW in years. In a brilliant piece about Squamish [...]

This shouldn’t be that much of a surprise. Yet another firing, by EVERY other name, covered up by Penny Ballem’s henchmen and buttressed, albeit feebly (as per usual) by the Mayor of Vancouver, who claims to know nothing of what happened to booted Property Use Inspector Carlene Robbins, as Community Services Manager Dave McLellan, once [...]

For those of you complaining about a lack of major media due diligence and attention of the damning documents that have been published here with respect to Christy Clark’s participation in the sale of BC Rail–documents Ms. Clark has been feebly dodging at every opportunity, you will be able to hear and watch her dodge [...]

Early last year when I broke the story on the illegal firing of City Electrician and Chief Electrical Inspector Arkady Tsisserev, all hell broke loose. The media, although somewhat slow off the mark (as a result of the Olympics) ran with it and the Mayor and City Manager Penny Ballem were caught in a whole [...]

While sifting through the information provided to me on ‘The Basi Files’ and related documents, I noticed that Gregor Robertson’s viral ‘REIGN OF ERROR’ continues. Except this time, it cost three men their lives. It is more than troubling that the Mayor, his Vision council, the City Manager (who is the chief responsible party for [...]

Is it possible that Gregor Robertson is as stupid as he sounds? Here is a man whose political bailiwick is all about being soft on crime, and it finally needs to happen a block away from his house for it to matter to him? FACT: Since Robertson’s election the VPD under Vision cocktail waitress, Chief [...]