Well, wasn`t that interesting, first off, the cutting edge of the ledge show featuring Baldrey, Good and palmer after the radio debate, they only took four calls for the hour, one call praising Jane Sterk, one call from Ron who talked oil tankers in the harbour as a bad idea, and two calls bashing the NDP..
First off, in the last few days the media has been working in tandem to paint Adrian Dix as the party of no, that was debunked here yesterday, today the three stooges went a different direction, yes Palmer and Good continued on the NDP against development theme, however, they added a new meme, they in a coordinated effort tried to pump up Jane Sterk, the reason is obvious, BC Liberal and or BC Conservative voters aren`t Green Party voters, but some NDP voters are willing to consider the Green party vote, this was a three stooge curve ball toss, an attempt to drive votes from the NDP to the Green Party...It was sooooo obvious..
The Green party have no budget, their platform is based on mere platitudes, they aren`t credible, and yes, the Green Party goals are laudable..
The Cutting Edge of the Ledge show following the debate, perhaps you wondered why I mentioned how many calls they let through during the hour, I have it on good authority that their phone lines lit up, however, the calls were anti-Christy Clark, her lies about a balanced budget, calls about Christy Clark blathering about the bond rating agencies "code talk"..A code that apparently only Christy can decipher...And dozens of calls came in wanting to talk about how rude and negative in tone Christy Clark was..
CKNW is still playing their games..
Last night at Gilmore Community Gym in North Burnaby there was an all candidates debate, NDP`s Janet Routledge was there, Richard Lee the incumbent BC Liberal was there(incumbent since 2001) Green party candidate was there and a BC Conservative candidate was there..
I asked the second question, yes, it was about oil and pipelines, the first question was on Kinder Morgan...
Let me be crystal clear, Kinder Morgan and Enbridge was the issue, number one issue by a mile, it dominated, BC Conservative member endorsed the pipeline proposals, Green candidate opposed all resource development, Richard Lee blathered about Christy Clark`s five key conditions that must be met before they endorse, Janet Routledge echoed Adrian Dix in not wanting increased oil tanker traffic in Vancouver harbour and the outright opposition to Enbridge..
The hundred people there were hostile towards Richard Lee, the hundred people there were almost all absolutely elated with Janet Routledge`s answers, she was clear, well spoken and concise..Janet Routledge got roaring rounds of applause after every answer, Richard Lee was literally booed out of the gym, BC Conservatives will garner nothing in the way of votes in Burnaby with their party stance on pipelines..
In a nutshell, Richard Lee is toast in North Burnaby...North Burnaby is going big-time orange..And even in driving around North Burnaby, Richard Lee signs are an endangered species, only Janet Routledge signs can be found..
There is a new Angus Reid poll out, the first poll since Christy`s televised infomercial..
I said this two years ago, this election, the number one issue is pipeline and oil, the people have spoken, they don`t want Enbridge or Kinder Morgan expansion..
This election is over, and as for the Federal election, Stephen Harper`s obsession with tar oil and pipelines will cost him and his party power.
I`m not sure if layoff notices at British Columbia`s major daily newspapers sent shockwaves through print media personalities or is this just the usual tanking for the BC Liberals the corporate media engages every pre-election period, or perhaps these propaganda artists were ordered to get the BC Liberals elected or else....
Even the freebie paper 24 hours showed the worst of journalistic standards, they posted a guest opinion piece by Diamond Isinger, a young girl who has been partisan twittering for the BC Liberals for months, I have no problem with Diamond having an article posted but full disclosure is required, 24 hours nowhere mentions that Diamond Isinger is part of Christy Clark`s election team..
I guess cheap journalistic rags only attract amateur writers, it wasn`t even a good article, the comments below her story call her out, Laila Yuile has recently exposed Diamond Isinger as complete hypocrite, she doesn`t practice what she preaches, selective partisan drivel, and she`s(Diamond Isinger) a very poor writer to boot..
Michael Smyth is on layoff notice too, let`s be perfectly clear, no one writer is more amateur than Michael Smyth, he`s a gotcha writer who spins and twists, devoid of facts and he researches nothing, the odd good story he`s written over the last five years came as a result of leaks, not research or hard work, Michael Smyth is lazy, long in the tooth and a very boring lackluster writer, not sure if he even went to journalism school, if not, he needs a crash course in writing..
Smyth wrote an article devoid of facts, and again, the commenters called him out for what he is, a two-bit hack writer, low-skilled and misinformed.
Michael Smyth is like Christy Clark, they only know of pissing contests, well, they can both go piss on each other, their IQ`s are about equal, bottom of the barrel appealing to only the dimmest among us..
Yesterday Vaughn Palmer went back to his garbage writing too..Vaughn Palmer talked about the NDP platform, problem is, Vaughn Palmer made up his own facts, Vaughn Palmer suggested the teachers were in line for a $2 billion dollar pay raise under Adrian Dix, and then Vaughn went deep into the sewer, he talked BC Hydro and their $billions in debt, $billions in debt hidden in deferral accounts, he mentions the NDP promised a full review of the crown corporation, then Vaughn states that a big rate hike is coming, Vaughn goes further, he emphasizes and states...
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"Some other unknowns emerged from the briefing on the supposedly
complete election platform as well, starting with the NDP's intentions
for BC Hydro, with its billions in debt, billions more in deferred spending, and swelling pressures for rate increases. The
New Democrats are saying nothing about their plans for the giant
utility, except that they would subject it to a full-blown financial
review. Expect a rate increase. A big one. And they'll blame that on the
Liberals as well, with more than passing justification."
No where does Vaughn Palmer say why BC Hydro is in debt, ..According to BC Hydro, they will lose $1.4 billion dollars on IPP power buying contracts over the next three year, nor does he mention the $1.1 billion spent on smart meters, or how the BC Liberals ran BC Hydro through orders in council and prevented any oversight from the BCUC, nor does he mention that the BC Liberals already spiked BC Hydro rates, including a punitive two tier rate system that unfairly punishes families with children living in single detached homes.
So funny, Vaughn Palmer and Billy Good talk about the wildwest internet, how you can`t believe anything online, really Vaughn?..I write factual stories, the details are laid out, background information is provided, I don`t just state where we are but how we actually got here..
Methinks the papers are freaked out about Adrian Dix bringing an end to partisan Government advertising, having any and all advertising Government proposes to be vetted by the auditor general.
Vaughn Palmer knows exactly what he was doing with his very poor article, his not-so-subtle messaging...Vaughn Palmer needs to be called out for crap writing, however, did any of us expect anything different from these corporate owned newspapers, ....They wonder why the newspaper industry is dying, for when writers and columnists throw their integrity out the window either for partisan and or employer pressure reasons, these rags have turned into nothing but propaganda, Fraser institute corporate agenda and to hell with the people..Fortunately the younger people, the internet reader gets facts from The Straight Goods, the Tyee, Gazatteer, House of Infamy and a thousand others blogs...
This site leans left of center, and newspapers can lean right, that is all good, but information and the real facts must be expressed, the readers must be informed on how we got here, what Government decisions were made, good, bad or ugly, let the readers decide...Obviously Vaughn Palmer got his marching orders..You are very sad Vaughn, an old tired writer who lost both his spine and ethical journalistic standards along the way..
However, this article is about Barbara Yaffe`s front page story in the Vancouver Sun...Her spinfest was indeed a hatchet job, an article so full of misinformation, blurred data without the tiniest bit of pertinent background information..
It`s titled..
Barbara Yaffe: If B.C.'s NDP wins, those of us needing to work can always move to Alberta
Quite the title eh, her article is so full of (excuse my french) Bullshit..Yaffe mentions that the NDP is against Enbridge`s Northern Gateway Pipeline, that is true, however, 80% of all BCers are against Enbridge, you can`t mention Enbridge`s proposal without telling of at least a few of Enbridge`s catastrophic pipeline spills, all the ecological damage, the Red Deer river spill, the Kalamazoo spill, still uncleaned after $1billion spent, or even mention that Enbridge has brand new pipelines leaking today.
Then Yaffe double dips on Enbridge, she states the NDP are also against Super Tankers on our northern coast, that is one of the same, she fails to mention BC`s northern commercial fishery being put at risk, eco-tourism will vanish with a northern spill, she fails to mention a major tanker spill would kill off our pristine northern coast, that is so selfish.
And Yaffe was just getting started, she mentions the opposition to the proposed Raven Coal mine on Vancouver island, the opposition is from the shellfish aquaculture industry and the local community, how a coal industry in that area will destroy another forever sustainable industry, she goes further, she makes up her own facts, she claims the NDP are against all coal exports, absolutely not true, then she blathers on about North Delta`s retiring NDPer Guy Gentner`s opposition to expanded coal shipments in Delta, he isn`t even running in this election!, ..
Barbara Yaffe was spinning like a top, she talks about the NDP being against the Jumbo Resort development, problem there is there is no project, no money, no plan, the BC Liberals appointed to this huge swath of pristine nature a mayor, a council, yet there isn`t even one citizen, no one to oppose the city council`s decisions, no one to sit in on discussions except resource developers, this scheme is relying on the BC Government to pay to plow a $600 million dollar road at taxpayer`s expense and open up this area, there will be no development there, this is pie in sky like David Black`s phony refinery scheme..
Ever since the BC Liberal government surprised residents ofBC’s
Kootenays with its March 20, 2012 approval for the controversial Jumbo
Glacier Resort, people have been asking: Why now? After all, the Jumbo
Resort proposal has been around since 1989 and has been successfully opposed by local people for
more than twenty years.
Then, on May 1, the Liberals introduced Bill 41, which included an
amendment to the Local Government Act buried in a miscellaneous list.
That amendment allows for the “incorporation of a new mountain resort
municipality…
whether or not there are residents in the area,” as long as
the proponent “has entered into an agreement with the government with
respect to developing alpine ski lift operations, year-round
recreational facilities and commercial overnight accommodation within
the area…” Just days later, on May 16, Bill 41 passed third reading.
Invermere Mayor Gerry Taft recently told East Kootenay News Online
Weekly, “Developers who wish to rezone land have to follow a process
that includes public hearings and a final decision by officials who are
accountable to the residents who elected them. This legislation would
empower a [cabinet] minister to give developers a special status that
bypasses the democratic process and undermines the ability of local
citizens to control development.
The ability of the proposed Jumbo
Resort, and other potential developments, to bypass the land use process
and get their own municipality status without residents is an affront
to local communities.
This is far beyond a bad idea. The loss of
democracy is a slippery slope, even slipperier than some land
speculators and receding glaciers.”
Columbia River-Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald said in a recent press
release,
“Despite the fact that the majority of residents in the area do
not support the development of a ski resort in the Jumbo Valley, the BC
Liberals are determined to push ahead. And they are willing to go to
incredible lengths to make that happen.”
So, to the question of “why now?” we can add: Why quickly enable what
Michelle Mungall, NDP MLA for Nelson Creston, calls a “ghost-town resort
municipality,” whose mayor and council would be appointed by provincial
cabinet to “govern no one and be accountable to no one as they [make]
land use decisions impacting an entire region”?
Barbara Yaffe provided zippo for background information on any of the proposed projects ..
Yaffe than blathers about the NDP opposition to Site C dam proposal on the Peace river, first off, the cost would be $12 billion taxpayer dollars, this power is for one reason, to give free power to proposed LNG producers, but that industry doesn`t even exist yet, it may never exist, and as stated above, the part Vaughn Palmer left out, BC Hydro is pouring water over our own heritage dams becuse we have a glut of power we aren`t currently using, this loss/cost is $1.4 billion drain from BC Hydro over three years, that according to BC Hydro`s own audit...
The internet blogger of today is different, well-informed and data galore..
Then Barabara Yaffe goes off the wall, she talks about the NDP`s opposition to Tesako`s prosperity mine proposal, this is where Barbara Yaffe deserves a dressing down, an open pit gold mine proposal so destructive, so ecologically destructive the Federal Government(Harper) environmental assessment turned the project down(Twice) because it would destroy watersheds, the Fraser River watershed, the Federal Government rejected it, they sent Tesako back to the drawing board, and again the Federal review rejected Tesako`s subtle changes..
That information must be presented in her article, it wasn`t, it was deliberately left out.
Here is one of the pristine lakes that would be deliberately destroyed by Tesako, turned into a tailing pond.
Yaffe wasn`t finished, she proclaims the NDP would stop LNG, that is not true, the public needs to be reassured as to fracking, safe or not safe, our natural gas is very deep, however, there are water issues in the north, we can`t just go gung ho and suddenly wake up to a potential northern province water table disaster..
The NDP are on board with LNG, in fact three export licenses have been granted already, no one is stopping the LNG exporters from building, from shipping, it`s the companies themselves that have hesitated, hesitated because they have no long term energy buying contracts, that would be important information to pass onto readers, Barabara Yaffe is definitely going after the low-information voters, those won`t be found here or on the internet, only those that rely on dead-tree corporate propaganda..
By far, the best information on LNG here in British Columbia and around the world, the facts, both good and bad are in the above links..
Yaffe is so pathetic, then she goes off on how we must get along with federal Government, how important is to cooperate with the Feds, newsflash Barbara Yaffe, the Harpercons will be gone in two years..Either Mulcair or the charismatic Justin Trudeau will be prime minister of Canada..
Back to the title of Yaffe`s propaganda piece, she doesn`t mention Alberta going broke, five straight years of deficits, the Alberta deficit this year is over $6 billion dollars.....
There was zero, zip, nada, not one tiny bit of journalistic integrity in Barbara Yaffe`s article, it contained only propaganda and spin..
And they wonder why people go to the internet for news, they wonder why no one is buying the dead tree version.
That answer is simple, bloggers got balls, guts, most tell the truth, no holds barred.
Good, Yaffe, Palmer, Isinger, Smyth...The bad and the uglies.
Stephen Harper is running scared, his underpants are soiled, Justin Trudeau, the newly appointed leader of the third place Federal party has Harper and the Cons freaked out, polling data has Justin Trudeau winning a minority Government if an election were held today..Justin is a phenomenon, Justin Trudeau has starting running his own ads to counter Harper`s childish antics, a polite ad, a non-personal ad..Justin Trudeau is taking the new winning approach to politics, ala Adrian Dix..
Stephen Harper is so bland, so old, so boring, a pathetic corporate bootlick..
Anyone who defends these immature antics of Harper and his party must have a few loose screws, the Federal Cons have lost their way, they can`t balance a budget, they are wasting money on partisan ads, they are cutting services to seniors, cutting Canada pension, cutting healthcare, Harper cares only about godamn oil pipelines, the Federal Conservative party will fall loudly, fall hard just like the BC Liberals...
The public has grown up, the internet is the new source of data, no longer can lying spinning politicians get away with serving up garbage disguised as palatable fare..
I am a NDP supporter both Federally and Provincially, I am however honest with myself, Justin is a superstar in the public`s eyes, if indeed Justin Trudeau is a lightweight, in over his head the public over the next 2 years will figure that out, Stephen Harper is so transparent, Harper is a gutless name-calling coward..
_____________ "OTTAWA — A “classroom” at Degrassi High served as the setting for
Justin Trudeau’s first national advertisements, which aired Wednesday
just as the Conservatives were planning another attack on the new
Liberal leader — this time using taxpayer dollars. Documents obtained by the Liberal Party show the Tories are planning
to send thousands of taxpayer-funded mail-outs to households across the
country reiterating their message that Trudeau is “in over his head.” The mail-outs, called 10-per-centers, are usually supposed to be used
by MPs to update their constituents on what is happening in the House
of Commons. According to the documents, the anti-Trudeau flyers will be
mailed out June 1."
______________ http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2012/10/justin-thunderbolt-trudeau.html
This site is called The Straight Goods, we may well have a political bent, however, we won`t defend our side for the sake of favourtism, we won`t be a bullshit fake site, with fake comments, agree or disagree with my views..
I thought the business/corporate donation mailout by the NDP was crass, uncalled for....
Also, it was about time Adrian Dix became clear on Kinder Morgan..
Let`s be perfectly crystal clear, a major oil spill in Vancouver harbour would result in property values dropping by $hundreds of $billions of dollars, our world brand would be tainted, tourism would decline, people sitting in our Vancouver convention center don`t want to look at endless oil tankers or sheening oil from their rooms..Cruise ships would stop calling on Vancouver harbour on route to Alaska if it was oil-stained..
Absolutely brilliant, Adrian Dix has announced a blue-ribbon panel to look at the financial situation of both BC Place and the Vancouver convention center.
As you know both of those entities bleed money every year, they both lose money on the operational side...And there is also the capital debt of $1.2 billion dollars, interest on that debt is in the range of $40 million dollars per year..
Add up the operational debt, the interest payment and these two entities cost the BC taxpayer near $100 million dollars per year...
There are many big corporations willing to buy these type of assets even if they are money losing ventures, Telus, Rogers, Bell, these are very profitable companies, these companies do buy money losing assets as a tax shelter, taxes due from one profitable entity are used to defer loses on another..
Bob Mackin has fought tooth and nail to get financial information from Pavco, they refuse,...FOI refusal on steroids..
BC Liberals sell off profitable assets, like BC Rail...They tried to give away the highly profitable LDB...
Yet today the Liberals are howling about Adrian Dix proposing selling off liabilities..
Hilarious...BC Liberals and Christy Clark have been calling Adrian a Socialist, wanting to grow Government, and today he showed his shrewd business side by proposing shrinking Government, getting the BC Government out of the stadium business, out of the convention business..
Today at 10:00am on Bill Good`s The View show/panel featuring Alise Mills..
Bill Good and Alise Mills were freaking out, the callers applauded Adrian Dix`s proposal..
And out of the mouth of the south, a one loud-mouthed blathering Alise Mills..
Alise Mills shrieked,....There are single mothers and youth that depend on those minimum wage jobs at BC Place..
Cue up 10:00a.m. to 10:45a.m. ....April 24th...Listen to Alise Mills shriek, listen to Bill Good go into panic mode.
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Newsflash Alise Mills, BC Place will still have events, Vancouver convention center will still have conventions, and..Any private buyer of BC Place can`t pay less than minimum wage..
In fact those employees are likely to get raises..
This is gold, this is how you run a campaign, Christy Clark has been tweeting that this is a "stunt"...
Christy Clark knows all too well what political stunts are..
Anywho, whenever Alise Mills and Bill Good start freaking out on air over an NDP announcement..
Means it`s another dagger right into the heart of the BC Liberals.
Selling off $100 million dollar per year financial; boondoggles, oh the humanity!
John Cummins is in complete agreement with Adrian Dix on this stadium issue..
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CONSERVATIVES ON SIDE
Politics can make for strange
bedfellows, and the NDP and the B.C. Conservative party find themselves
on the same side on the issue. Conservative leader John Cummins has long considered the provincial investment a government subsidy. The
Conservatives would sell the naming rights to the stadium and set a
fall 2016 deadline for the Crown agency to be self-sustaining. “There should be no need to have taxpayers prop up Pavco,” Cummins said in a statement. “It’s currently a dumping ground for Liberal insiders and cronies. They seem to have no desire to protect taxpayers’ dollars.” Cummins pointed out that Pavco board member Suzanne Anton and board chairman Peter Fassbender are running on the Liberal slate.
Adrian Dix has been announcing spending in areas where I believe new monies are desperately needed, special ed teachers, money for tree planting and forest inventory, a very modest program for childcare, modest in comparison to Quebec`s $10 per day daycare, monies and non-refundable grants for students..
The impression I perceive from our provincial media is that they are still in the tank for the corporate Liberals, cknw is so childish, battleground BC on Sun News is so hostile towards Adrian and the NDP, a rightwing Harpercon propagandist station, there is zero balance on that station, Philip Hocstein and Alise Mills spew rhetoric right out of Joe Mcarthy`s playbook,..
The dreaded socialist hordes, reds under the bed, commies and pinkos, there hasn`t been one media outlet federally or provincially that has even bothered to do a story on what Adrian Dix`s directed spending means to the people, to the forest, not one story about Adrian Dix wanting to lift people, lift children out of poverty..
My neighbor Harold died a few days ago, a quiet man with a loud barky dog, for years we were rather distant, good fences make good neighbors, his wife Elma and daughter Lisa, ...Lisa recently moved in to help her aging parents, rural properties require young hands to maintain although Harold bucked that trend..
After my dad passed Harold reached out to me, we became quite close, yes he did avail himself of my strong back and I absorbed his tales of yore, a fascinating man who no doubt resided on the right of the political spectrum, he never knew I was writing and blogging, I eventually read him a few stories and his eyes lit up, shocked he was, "you write like a professional but look like a lumberjack" he mused, made me smile, made him think..
A story in the Vancouver Sun, the BC Liberal party has received $46 million dollars from corporations in the last 6 years, a who`s who of names, Teck, EnCana gas, car dealers association, and more, if one thinks about the decisions made by our Liberal Government, subsidies, free transmission lines, passive environmental reviews and the awarding of major tax-funded provincial projects, it appears no company ever gets an awarding of a contract unless they pay the piper, that being the BC Liberal party...
Adrian Dix announced an end to Pacific Carbon Trust, EnCana Gas donated near $700,000 to the BC Liberals, they got back 7 fold that money from BC schools and hospitals via the Pacific Carbon Trust, they were paid for a project they started before PCT was even an entity..
Seems to my eyes that the Pacific Carbon Trust is/was nothing but a different version of the Federal Liberal scandal of the past, the sponsorship scandal..A kick-back scheme devised to fund the political party..
Gordon Campbell and these same BC Liberals butchered education, assaulted seniors, students and average people while the corporates were gifted through Liberal graft..
Campbell with demographic data on hand knew student enrollment was in decline, he changed the funding formula from block-funding to per-pupil funding, this was done with evil guile in mind, ...This devious trick, this sleight of hand..
Gordon Campbell in 2002 took the entire education budget and divided it by the number of enrolled students, ...That gave him a base number...For simple math purposes let`s call that number $7000 per year per student...
Gordon Campbell knowing enrollment was in decline, so the following year there is less students, school district X loses 100 children, they get $700,000 less dollars for that year, but 100 students less spread out over several schools..
The school costs remain the same, the heating costs, maintenance costs, teacher costs, nothing changes in the school district, expenses remain the same but now they receive less money..
After 10 years of per-pupil funding the system is starved, a deliberate destruction of public education, a plan hatched in the premier`s office, a plan that drove wealthy parents into placing children in private schools, thus further exasperating the public education money problem..
Seniors care, rural hospitals, a gradual degrading of health, of services..
Harold had a mild stroke 2 years ago, he laughed as he told me the story, in the doctor starved Sunshine Coast, Harold made his way to our hospital, the emergency doctor attending told Harold he had a mild stroke, the doctor said take an aspirin and go home and relax, Harold was shocked, in telling me this story(last year) he was stunned that no tests were done, no work-up, just a nonchalant attitude of oh well....Harold laughed it off and carried on, in recent days I could see he was having more and more difficulty doing his thing..
Harold leaned on me more and more and I was more than happy to help in any way I could, he was proud, stubborn and old school, his wife was always pleasant and knew her place, her place in Harold`s life.
Harold was always working on his boat, windy days, cold days, pouring rain days Harold would make his way down to the dock, lately I would keep a close eye on him, especially is he was using the ladder..
These corporate Liberals starved education, starved seniors care while more and more money went to subsidize wealthy corporations, Golden Ears bridge, $1.2 billion dollars, $400 million over budget while foreign temporary workers couldn`t get paid for doing the work, the Canada line project, SNC Lavelin, miners from various parts of the world being paid $4 dollars per hour....
Gordon Campbell tore up the HEU contract when he took power, fired 9000 workers, the lowest paid workers in healthcare, cleaners, senior care workers, all fired, the jobs outsourced to the corporate sector, the corporate paid sub-standard wages, they cut cleaning hours in hospitals, care homes, no money was saved by outsourcing only instead of monies and a livable wage flowing to people.....People worked a peasant`s wage while the corporate sector filled their coffers with loot..Tim Hortons Triage, code reds, code purples, germ-filled hospitals that slaughtered thousands of seniors, including my dad..Campbell and these BC Liberals lowered the minimum wage, created a fraudulent training wage, under 10 years of Gordon Campbell British Columbia, the most expensive province in Canada to live in had the lowest minimum wage, the only province with an abusive starter wage,...
The fraser institute, the Philip Hocstein`s of the world applauded this tactic, the rich got richer while BC soared to the title of child poverty capital of Canada for 10 straight years, bit by bit, day by day British Columbia was eroding before our very eyes, and when Adrian Dix comes out announcing spending in needed areas, announcing how he will pay for these commitments the media ignores the substance, ignores what more special education teachers mean, what forestry heath means, skills training, what lifting both the child and family out of stark poverty means to both British Columbia`s heart, and soul..
Harold slipped on the dock last Fall, he could barely move, he asked me to drive him the 40 miles(one way) to the hospital...I obliged, in he went, again, no doctors, a long wait, a quick look and prescribed "take an aspirin" advice, Harold, stubborn, old school, he insisted in buying me lunch in the big city(Sechelt) before our return to Garden Bay...
Harold did his best to hide his pain, I told Harold I see everything, including his pain, he laughed and finished his lunch..
Adrian Dix announced today funding for home-care, it is so needed, here I am, not in Garden Bay but Burnaby caring for my elderly mother, we have no money for home care, she does pretty good for the most part, her legs are bad, nerve damage so walking is very difficult, yet her mind is very sharp, she`s a political animal, and an Obama lover, she does like Adrian Dix too..
Adrian Dix has announced spending to improve the life of many, modest spending, BC Liberals so degraded every social ministry, healthcare, education, skills training, early learning, Adrian Dix is bringing back buy BC program to promote BC agriculture, the NDP want British Columbia produce and fruit in our hospitals, a shift away from rethermalized non-nutritional garbage shipped from Alberta to our hospitals.
Our media has done nothing but blather about the cost of the NDP spending, they seem completely disconnected from what the announced spending is going for, what the goals are, what improvements are needed, all the BC Liberal scandals, the Burnaby Hospital scandal, CLBC scandals, temporary foreign worker scandals, ethnicgate scandals, BC Rail scandals, BC Ferry scandals.
It`s like none of those things ever happened, scandal, debt accumulation and corporate Facism at the expense of the child, the family, the seniors, the elderly, Global news, cknw, CTV, Sun News, all of them are attacking the NDP`s spending without context, attacking Adrian`s memo-gate past while forgetting every BC Liberal scandal...
Harold was having chest pains last month, off to the hospital again he went, this time in Vancouver, he was informed he had a 75% blockage in an artery, Harold thought that was rather high, to his disbelief they sent him home with the advice of take aspirin, again..Our hospitals and present BC health system are not here to extend the life of seniors, they merely send them home to die...
I received a call from Elma 2 days ago...Harold had died, not in hospital, he was down on the dock, his daughter Lisa was watching him(from the house)..
Harold keeled over and fell in the water, Lisa in panic mode ran down to the dock, Elma called 911, Lisa got him but couldn`t lift him out of the water, locals in short order arrived and got Harold out of the water, local volunteer fire department did manage to revive him, an ambulance arrived and took him away, back to the hospital..
He never returned home, hospital staff claim his heart wouldn`t keep beating, they let him go..
Perhaps if I was there, perhaps if they placed a shunt in his artery, perhaps perhaps perhaps...
Perhaps Harold died doing what he loved, working on his boat, he hadn`t gone out or used it in years, yet there he was, winter spring fall and summer working away, keeping it spit-polished..
Meanwhile Christy Clark and the corporate Liberal party are wandering the province, every question to Christy Clark is answered with LNG $trillions, Premier Clark...What about Ferries..I will pay their debt with LNG..What about the Port Mann and tolls...I will lower tolls with LNG revenue..What about the massive debt, what about health, education, every question is answered with LNG $trillions down the road..
Our media is still tanking for the corporate BC Liberals, not one of our mainstream media has bothered to examine what Adrian Dix`s directed spending means to health, to education, to seniors, to children, Vaughn Palmer and michael Smyth want a pissing contest, Tom Fletcher, David Akin are devoid of brain cells, Twittering fools like Mark Marissen and Diamond Isinger embarrass not only themselves but the human race too, Alise Mills is stunned on Twitter, Sam Oliphant, and many many more BC Liberal slimy smearers are daily spewing hatred and spin, while nary a one ever bothers to talk of what Adrian`s social spending means..
British Columbia`s media, a conflict of ethics....
There was a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck offshore near Haida Gwaii on October 27th/2012..5 months ago, the big crackerjack earthquake was followed by many aftershock quakes, ranging from 4.8 to 5.8 in magnitude...
Earthquakes are measured with a device called the Richter scale, many aren`t aware of how this scale works, a 4.0 quake is 10 times the severity of a 3.0 quakes..An earthquake that measures 5.0 on the Richter scale has a shaking
amplitude 10 times larger than one that measures 4.0, and corresponds to
a 31.6 times larger release of energy..
Keeping that in mind 2 days ago there was 4 rather large quakes near the area of Haida Gwaii that recently had a 7.7 quake..Offshore quakes, meaning a big one will trigger a devastating tsunami..
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"The first of the quakes, with a magnitude of 4.5, struck about 90
kilometres south of Sandspit just after 5 p.m., according to the U.S.
Geological Survey. Two more followed at 5:45 p.m. and 5:55 p.m., measuring 4.3 and 4.4, respectively, both around 75 km south of Sandspit. Another 4.5-magnitude quake followed in the same area as the first around 7:30 p.m."
Local cable news described these recent quakes as aftershocks related to last October`s 7.7 quake, that`s total hogwash, the truth is there is something going on in the ring of fire, the Cascadia fault line is ready to pop, approximately every 500 years the westcoast Cascadia fault fractures, it fractures for hundreds of miles, all at once, this overdue quake, in the past these Cascadia major earthquakes resulted in massive tsunamis..When it goes there will be $hundreds of billions in damage and loss of life will be extreme, 10`s of thousands will die...Just think of the last Japanese quake, that`s what we are talking about only worse, more widespread
There have been a couple of other interesting developments of late....
The Environmental law clinic at the University of Victoria have asked the Freedom of Information Commissioner of Canada to launch an investigation into Stephen Harper muzzling Canada`s scientists, muzzling of environment Canada and more.
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"The ELC wrote:
We request that you initiate an investigation under s.
30(1)(f) of the Access to Information Act into the systematic efforts by
the Government of Canada to obstruct the right of the media – and
through them, the Canadian public -- to timely access to government
scientists. We ask you to take this step because of the deeply troubling
findings in the attached report, Muzzling Civil Servants: A Threat to Democracy.
The letter summarizes a number of cases
involving scientists in Fisheries and Oceans, Natural Resources, the
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the Department of National Defence, and
Environment Canada who were kept from speaking with media, or whose
findings had to be filtered through media-relations officials before
being released to reporters -- often long after their deadlines had
passed."
So here we have our Canadian scientists muzzled by Harper, decades of hard fought environmental laws being gutted by the Harper, clean water act gutted, fish protection removed, a whole series of Harper insanities initiated for but one reason, to grease the skids for Alberta Tar pipelines to traverse pristine British Columbia, the land of fresh water and spawning wild salmon, something Alberta doesn`t give a rat`s ass about...Their rivers are being slowly poisoned..
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Spills and violations
Using data from Enbridge's own reports, the Polaris Institute
calculated that 804 spills occurred on Enbridge pipelines between 1999
and 2010
Environmental protections removed in order to smooth the Federal approval process for heavy tar bitumen pipeline proposed for British Columbia, in particular Enbridge, a pipeline that must traverse earthquake prone BC, cross the remote desolate Rocky Mountains and cross over 800 salmon and other fish bearing rivers and streams only to arrive in the third most dangerous waterway in the world, a waterway that experiences hurricane force winds and severe storms many times per year, storms that rage for days on end..The Hecate Strait..
A tar bitumen pipeline to Kitimat where many tsunamis have struck in the past, pipilines and tankers in the area where all the recent earthquakes have occurred..
The big quake and tsunami is coming, and even if that day isn`t tomorrow. it is coming, there have been 18 major tsunamis in the last 10,000 years on the cascadia fault, about every 500 years, the last one was 400 hundred years ago..
Kinder Morgan, the other pipeline proposal company has been in the news too, they have been fined for violations galore, pipeline violations, Enbridge too
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"The U.S. federal Department of Transportation has fined
Kinder Morgan nearly a million dollars in civil fines for breaking 27
U.S. pipeline safety rules.
The Houston-based firm, the continent's
third largest energy company, currently wants to triple the capacity of
its Trans Mountain pipeline in a controversial bid to bring more Alberta bitumen to the port of Vancouver for export to China."
Andrew Nikiforuk has the details of Enbridge and Kinder Morgan`s latest pipeline infractions.
Enbridge has been in the news too, more bad news...As readers of the Straight Goods know, Enbridge had a major Alberta tar/bitumen spill in the Kalamazoo river in 2010..
Enbridge has spent near $1 billion dollars to clean up the mess but therein lies the problem, Enbridge can`t clean up the Kalamazoo river, technology doesn`t exist to clean up spilled diluted bitumen(tar) in water...
The Kalamazoo river is mere minutes from major populations in Michigan, there is machinery, infrastructure and a populous, there are roads, electricity, police and fire services, a regular old town, now tainted with a toxic river, this is important because where Enbridge has proposed the Gateway pipeline is in desolate mountains, over 800 rivers and streams where there are no towns, no roads, no infrastructure, so remote where Enbridge wants to go with their pipeline..
Nobody will be able to respond with machinery or tar/bitumen cleaning infrastructure or magic hocus pocus beans when the spills occur, and occur they will, Enbridge admits that fact..
Hocus Pocus beans, perhaps you think that was a joke, it wasn`t, I`m dead serious for Enbridge have spilled so much oil, destroyed so many ecosystems, devestated pristine environment after pristine environment that Enbridge have developed a magic act, trickery and guile, canvas and sand, scare tactics and intimidation and when that doesn`t work Enbridge like Exxon who still haven`t paid their fines from the Valdez oil spill, these companies litigate litigate litigate, they literally exhaust mentally and financially devastate those who choose to fight..
Enbridge has learned how to create the illusion of cleaning up their mess..
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An illusion in sand..
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An illusion made of canvas and grass
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And when Enbridge gets caught, when people start asking hard questions Enbridge starts denying liability.
And when people don`t get answers, Enbridge uses money and intimidation, police and city officials literally get bought off..John Bolenbaugh was followed, terrorized, brake lines cut, death threats and more, this man was documenting and creating a video record of Enbridge`s crimes against humanity..
After the Kalamazoo spill Enbridge spilled again, this one in a major city..
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As you can see from the videos, Enbridge`s heavy tar oil spill in the Kalamazoo river in Michigan was in a populous area with easy access and still Enbridge can`t clean it up..Check out the vimeo video at the below link.
Robert Bateman is straight to the point in this next video..
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Why am I talking about all this, because Christy Clark isn`t, she and this corrupt BC Liberal party are hell-bent with proceeding with this insanity, Stephen Harper and Joe Oliver are obsessed with this madness too, scientists muzzled, environmentalists threatened, decades of environmental protections gutted with a stroke of Harper`s pen..
Enbridge after spending near a $billion dollars trying to clean up a tar oil spill, a tar spill they had easy access to and still it remains toxic, remains spoiled and soiled, remains uncleaned, Enbridge after 1000`s of oil spills still have no solutions available to resolve the problem, people in Kalamazoo area of Michigan are getting sick, animals are sick, ground water undrinkable, insects, flora and mother nature saturated will heavy oil..
Enbridge has been ordered back to the Kalamazoo, they have been ordered to come up with a plan, the entire river will have to dredged and even with that measure the oil will remain.
How on earth will Enbridge access 800 rivers and streams in the middle of our rocky mountain range, with heavy snows, no roads, no electricity, no manpower, they won`t be able to get equipment there, or workers, and not in a timely manner, by the time any Enbridge crew arrives it will be too late.
Our rivers and streams have spawning salmon, you can`t dredge salmon spawning grounds without destroying the salmon nursery..
Warning to Stephen Harper and Joe Oliver...And a warning to the next Provincial Government, Enbridge will not be permitted to run a tar/bitumen pipeline through BC`s pristine environment, there WILL be war in the woods, people will die, there are thousands who will fight, maybe even millions if we invite the world to join our fight..
Enbridge`s experts admit there is no way to clean up tarry bitumen in water, our rivers are fast flowing mountain rivers, not if an oil disaster occurs but when, there will be no refinery built in Kitimat either, David Black`s refinery proposal will vanish on May 15/2013..
