Posted on November 20, 2009 by Laila
Apparently Translink might need to leave a trail in order to lead people across the Golden Ears Bridge !
Our ‘Powell River Persuader’ has The Straight Goods for you, on this statement and more on his site this morning.
It’s a gutbuster of a post. http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2009/11/translinks-spokeman-drew-snider-says.html
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Posted on November 19, 2009 by Laila
A victory that may see the trial beginning as soon as January 201o!
Bill Tieleman has the ruling on his site now, and will be following with his analysis as the day continues, so be sure to check back shortly. Here is an excerpt of his breaking news story from moments after the decision was handed [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2009 by Laila
From my friend Bill Tieleman’s site :
The most anticipated decision in the BC Rail corruption case of David Basi, Bob Virk and Aneal Basi will come at 6:45 a.m. BC time from the Supreme Court of Canada.
The Court has announced today that it will release its ruling on Special Prosecutor Bill Berardino’s appeal of two BC lower [...]
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Posted on November 16, 2009 by Laila
Why?
As happens often in my experience with blogging, writing about one topic invariably opens the door to another.Last week I blogged about the gun registry – in particular, how using domestic violence or spousal murder as a reason for continuing the registry is not only ridiculous, but dangerous. The responses here on the blog were [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2009 by Laila
and this would be one of those moments.
There has been a lot of discussion going on at Bill Tieleman’s blog in response to his post in support of the gun registry in Canada. I’m not going to get into all the details, but suffice it to say that the comments are heated and there are very few people [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2009 by Laila
My friend, photographer Doug Pyper, posted this video on his site recently, and I felt it was important to post it here again as well.
This video was produced by ” a couple of independent film makers out of concern and love for British Columbia.” I posted it during the election,because it beautifully illustrated exactly why Gordon Campbell is [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2009 by Laila
I took a look in my email box last night, and decided it was time to clean house and do a little round up and review of issues and stories from the last while. So, over today and tomorrow, there will likely be a series of posts so I can tidy up things a bit.
First [...]
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Posted on November 10, 2009 by Laila
I was dreaming of my father last night, right before the thunderous rain against my bedroom window jolted me from my already restless slumber.
The dream was a real memory of mine, of something that occurred when I was very young – surely before I was 6 or 7, but without asking him, I can’t put a [...]
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Posted on November 6, 2009 by Laila
It get’s even better.
B.C. comptroller-general Cheryl Wenezenki-Yolland released a report today, on the affairs and status of Translink and BC Ferries. The Sun has the full story HERE.
Among her findings:
TransLink is plagued by “significant operational issues” and has not done enough to manage its finances
(Remember, TransLink CEO Tom Prendergast just announced his resignation, and will be leaving for [...]
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Posted on November 6, 2009 by Laila
I feel a storm brewing…and it’s not going to be a short one.
We have BC paramedics being forced back to work by a government minister so unscrupulous that he would sell off surgery spots – most likely in violation of the Canada Health Act – while thousands off people are waiting for surgery and treatment.
We have [...]
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