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Recent Posts
- Aneal Basi and BC rail – take another look.
- ***UPDATED w/ new photo *** WARNING: Extremely dangerous sexual predator released from custody… but RCMP refuse to show you his face.
- The calm before the storm.
- ** UPDATED – Daniel is home again, safe ** Have you seen this man?
- Certain inalienable truths.
- And the Oscar goes to… Wally Oppal, for “Worst Performance in a Public Inquiry” …
- ” How the Conservatives stole environmental protection.”
- From the office of the still, un-elected premier in passing…
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- 100 reasons the BC Liberals must go.
- Aneal Basi and BC rail - take another look.
- Playing with the Dragon: Who is looking after Canadian interests while China outwits our governments?
- Newton neighbourhoods still rife with prostitutes,drugs and crime - despite city's Newton Revitalization Plan
- Surrey ranks in the Top 10 Most Dangerous cities in Canada - so why not add slot machines to one of the poorest neighbourhoods?
- Breaking news - Homes destroyed as wild-fire burns in West Kelowna
- ***UPDATED w/ new photo *** WARNING: Extremely dangerous sexual predator released from custody... but RCMP refuse to show you his face.
- 25 days to save the environmental sovereignty of British Columbia ? Who is willing to take a stand?
Blogroll
- Bill Tieleman
- Blog Borg collective
- Bourque newswatch
- Creekside
- David Berner/The Berner Monologues
- Dope City Press
- Doug Pyper's Photography and Similar Visions
- Eloise Charet – Waterwalk
- Fight the HST!
- find a womans shelter and resources
- Galloping Beaver
- Gansters Out blog
- Gordon F.D. Wilson
- Harper Valley
- Harvey Oberfeld’s Keeping It REAL…
- Honestly Shared Taxation -Consumer Boycott of HST-supporting businesses!
- House of Infamy
- Iain Halls blog from Down Under
- Ian Reid: The Real Story
- Manic Tapas- A blog by Dave Gerry !
- Newswatch BC
- Northern Insights
- Opinion 250 : news & views from the North
- Paul Willcocks
- Public Eye- BC politics
- Rafe Mair
- RCMPWatch
- Sister Sage's Musings ( Kim posts here!)
- The Commonsense Canadian
- The Galloping Beaver
- The Gazetteer
- The JLS report
- The Legislature Raids
- The Straight Goods
- The Tyee
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Shadow tolls on Sea to ‘Sly’ highway, the William R. Bennett Bridge,and the BC Rail connection.
snowball effect (n.) 1.(figurative)the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall) **** Story updated at the bottom: 5 am, November 1st- UK … Continue reading
Posted in bc politics, Blogroll, CKNW Talk SHow Idol, Credits, crime, Laila Yuile, lifestyle, politics
Tagged Basi-Virk Trial, bc liberals, Bc Rail, corruption in bc, gary collins, Gordon Campbell, hidden tolls, kevin falcon, kiewit, Laila Yuile, macquarie, phase 1, proceeds from BC rail, sale of bc rail to fund phase 1, sea to sky, sea to sky highway, shadow tolls on sea to sky
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“Bad news Friday” becomes bad news Monday for Campbell and Liberals on November 1st.
“One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground” ~ Baltasar Gracian A follow-up to the Sea to Sly highway shadow toll story will be posted for Monday morning, … Continue reading
Now how about that premiers speech…
Or not ! I watched, I laughed, I noticed how much he was swallowing and at one point I’m pretty sure I saw some spit on his lip he seemed so… anxious? Sure, that’s a good word. Anxiously hoping the … Continue reading
Posted in bc politics, Blogroll, CKNW Talk SHow Idol, Credits, crime, Laila Yuile, politics
Tagged 100 reasons, bc liberals, Gordon Campbell, kiewit, Laila Yuile, macquarie, sea to sky shadow toll
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You did it! Congratulations to Laila Yuile readers across BC and Ontario for taking this post viral!
Imagine my surprise this morning, when I woke up and saw the final stats for yesterday post on the hidden, shadow tolls on the Sea to Sky highway: 89,472 !! 89,472 unique visitors read that one post, in a 24 … Continue reading
Posted in bc politics, Blogroll, CKNW Talk SHow Idol, Credits, crime, humour, Laila Yuile, Laila Yuile Photography Portfolio, politics
Tagged 100 reasons gordon campbell must go, bc liberals, bc ndp, Bc Rail, Gordon Campbell, hidden tolls on sea to sky, kiewit, macquarie, shadow tolls on sea to sky, snc
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Breaking news: BC liberals inked ‘hidden toll’ into Sea to Sky highway deal – and we all pay for the next 25 years.
*** STORY UPDATED – STATEMENT FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST**** For years, I have often wondered why, in such ’tough economic times’, the very expensive Sea to Sky highway was not tolled. I’ve called for … Continue reading
Posted in bc politics, Blogroll, CKNW Talk SHow Idol, Credits, crime, Laila Yuile, Laila Yuile Photography Portfolio, politics
Tagged bc liberals, bc ndp, breaking news vancouver, Gordon Campbell, hidden toll on sea to sky, kevin falcon, kiewit, Laila Yuile, macquarie, port mann bridge, s2s partnership, sea to sky highway, shadow tolls, shirley bond
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” Prosecution of the puppets, not the puppet-masters…” ~ an open letter to the people of BC.
A wonderfully outraged reader of mine forwarded me a couple of emails this morning, interesting in detail. After sending a polite and well worded letter of outrage ( that also contained a link to a recent Times Colonist editorial ) to a well … Continue reading
” 100 reasons Gordon Campbell must go” becomes new feature page
For your reading pleasure, may I introduce you to a new page I have created here on my blog, which will be permanently located on the tab lineup above! It is a comprehensive and substantial list of the worst of Campbell’s actions and achievements during the … Continue reading
” Friends take care of Friends.” ~ Norman Farrell
Norman always has something thought provoking on his site, and often sees and finds something others may not. Case in point, the connections between Deputy Finance Minister Graham Whitmarsh and should have been soon to testify in the now defunct Basi-Virk trial…Gary … Continue reading
Posted in bc politics, Blogroll, CKNW Talk SHow Idol, Credits, humour, Laila Yuile, politics
Tagged bas virk, bc liberals, bc rail trial, corruption, gary collins, Gordon Campbell, Laila Yuile, norman farrell
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Corruption is complete authority plus total monopoly, minus transparency.
corrupt [kuh-ruhpt] –adjective 1. guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge. 2. debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil: a corrupt society. 3. made inferior by errors or alterations, as a text. 4. infected; tainted. … Continue reading