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Politics & Life in British Columbia
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.
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?
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.
Frédéric Bastiat was a 19th century free market French economist and writer. He is known for his writings on plunder, legal or otherwise, and one of his most reknowned quotes is: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselvesContinue reading Rich Coleman announces retirement as Cullen Commission gets underway
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