While everyone thinks December tends to be a quiet time of the year for politics, this year it is anything but. Ending this week with a bang, the news that former Clerk Craig James, was charged with breach of trust and fraud. https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/12/18/Clerk-Craig-James-Charged-Legislature-Scandal/ These charges were a long time in coming, and I’m sure areContinue reading Weekend #bcpoli round up.
What you need to see in BC today
It is a stunning day here on the west coast, but this is little consolation to the families of the 46 people who died over the weekend from covid, all but 8 in long term care facilities . Ron Hughes is someone you need to follow on twitter if you use that venue. He hasContinue reading What you need to see in BC today
*updated* This one is for Dermod: When is arms length decision making, not?
Of all the valued friends or colleagues I’ve had who have passed on in recent years, Dermod was the one I could never find words for, after he passed. I think its because I have never met anyone else like him, and probably never will. He had an exquisite mind and it worked in suchContinue reading *updated* This one is for Dermod: When is arms length decision making, not?
Cullen Commission Heats up as testimony puts former BC Liberal minister Rich Coleman right into the spotlight.
A former British Columbia RCMP officer testified he was informed in 2009 that Rich Coleman, then-minister responsible for gaming, was “largely responsible” for rampant money laundering related to organized crime in the province’s casinos, and that senior B.C. Mounties were complicit, an inquiry has heard. Fred Pinnock, former commander of B.C.’s anti-illegal gaming unit, described to the CullenContinue reading Cullen Commission Heats up as testimony puts former BC Liberal minister Rich Coleman right into the spotlight.