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Chamber of Commerce study finds Victoria needs affordable housing to spur economy
LINKS TO THE WORLD: Establishment “economists” cook the books … Alberta tories kiss and make up … Will Justin Trudeau back down on NAFTA … 75% of Americans believe they are powerless … Sears wants to censor the Internet … U.S. Republicans’ Rube Goldberg health care
LINKS TO VICTORIA, B.C. – Hospital pay-parking revolt – Victoria developers concentrate on the boring and the almighty buck – May election raises quality of education – Ripping off tourists in Niagara Falls – Old folks at the tender mercy of mainland Chinese
Homeless wanted a place to sleep — Victoria Establishment dawdled — the homeless built Tent City — Establishment acted
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The Lady That’s Known as Lou
The streets of Hell are paved with good intentions — God helps those who help themselves. Says Les Leyne in the Victoria Times Colonist: “One thing the campers at Victoria’s tent city have accomplished is a sharp increase in the
Constable Action
number of shelter beds made available for the homeless .. ” The Victoria Establishment do-gooded aplenty but gained nothing. The people themselves helped themselves and won places to sleep in.
Even the B.C. tory government’s Constable Action, Rich Coleman, has accomplished nothing. (Action’s dynamic career has included: Joining the RCMP as a constable and leaving as a constable; failing to make B.C. the Continue reading
B.C. tories launch 2017 election with hagiography, fingering of social media and male socialists
Bob Edwards
Stalin, Mao, Roosevelt and W.A.C. Bennett loved giant hydro dams. Politicians and bureaucrats — not given to pesky details — can actually see a hydro dam — can’t see concepts like guaranteed annual income and income inequality. Though stilling surging water just doesn’t have sex appeal these days, B.C.’s petit-tory Premier Gordon Campbell loved the “Site C” Dam project along the Peace River Continue reading
Ghomeshi apologizes for not committing offence
George Orwell
May 10, 2016 – Today, In an Ontario Court, Jian Ghomeshii apologized. For
what? The prosecutor said Ghomeshi hadn’t committed an offense!!! In fact, they’d both committed the offenses of “double think” and “cover your backside“. Continue reading
Did loose buggery laws bring on Fort McMurray fires?
Wildfire burns Fort McMurray
THE OLD TIMER FROM PINCHER CREEK
UPDATE — A Holy-Rolling Bishop says God has brought on the Fort Mac fires because of lax buggery laws.
May 20, 2016 — The Insurance Bureau of Canada’s Chief says: Continue reading
Victoria’s Billion Dollar Boondoggle
Victoria’s organic sewage disposal system
In 1966, the local governments of Victoria, B.C. had hired Associated Engineering and a team ofinternational scientists and engineers to build a sewage treatment plant for $175 million. Associated finished the plant in 1982, on time and on budget. The plant functions perfectly.
Tax Accountants whoop it up with Federal Revenoors – behind closed doors
The Printer’s Devil
THE SECRET LIFE OF PANAMA CITY
Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker
June 17, 2016 – The CBC reveals that: “Deals Canada signed to catch tax cheats allow billions in taxes to escape”
May 19, 2016 – Canada’s tax accountants lobbied high Federal tax auditors at a green eyeshade
whoop-up at Ottawa’s Rideau Club some time ago. Might have been exciting but both refused to fess up with the details. Continue reading
Is Hillary a hypocrite?
Set-Em-Up Joe – former bartender Hy’s
UPDATE — June 9, 2016 — Hillary claims she is over the top. Sanders says she is not. Obama endorses Hillary.
UPDATE — May 19, 2016 –NPR’s Tamara Keith wonders why Hillary Clinton has 
changed so many of her positions — e.g. gays, trade, crime has it been to change with the times or to get more votes. Continue reading
Grassroots Tories want to liberalize
 Set ‘Em Up Joe 2016-05-23 – At a Federal policy convention this week, Grassroots Tories hope to take powers away from their party leader. 2016-05-14 – Before Canadian voters asked to leave office, Stephen Harper thought he’d use Federal Continue reading |