Saturday, January 16, 2016

This Week In Clarkland...The Irony.

What,We
Govern?Ville


Regarding that small matter of the provincial Supremes taking the Northern Gateway decision away from the NEB and throwing it back to the Clarklandians...

Merv Adey makes an important point:

...What an irony.. The Clark government, aching for more power, has it forced upon them by the court and now may well appeal to save itself from having to respect the law expressed by SCC-Tsilqh’otin . No political games… No making the Feds be the “heavy”...

Hmmmmm....

Perhaps the Clarklandians and their wizards could put it to a cat's-in-the-baggy-in-the-silver-mooned, non-binding plebiscite.

Or some such thing.

But, then again...

Who would play the part of the good Mr. Bateman this time?


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Merv also explains the import of the federal Supremes giving the teachers the right to appeal...Gosh...Whatever will the Keef think?


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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tom Fletcher called it first on #bcpoli

"Who needs facts any more?"

e.a.f. said...

you do wonder, when a government keeps saying they want a better relationship with First Nations and then they ignore them in a case such as this. Oh, well, Christy most likely saw "consultation" as something she wasn't up to nor was there a chance for a smilie "photo op"

They don't want to "consult", because they don't know how. if they consult and they don't do it properly there could be a lot of blow back, if the media were to report on it.

Anonymous said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a7cHPy04s8

Anonymous said...

NEWS FLASH !!

bloggers are killing the REAL journalismists

Postmedia merges newsrooms, cuts 90 jobs in response to financial woes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/postmedia-story/article28257456/

and there the truth is...
buried at the bottom...


Paul Godfrey, president and chief executive officer, Postmedia Network Canada Corp.
“There isn’t a paper in the new Postmedia that’s losing money,” Mr. Godfrey said. But he pointed to “the [$670,000,000] debt factor” as a major drag on the company’s fortunes. Most of its debt, priced at interest rates of 8.25 per cent and 12.5 per cent, is owned by a pair of fund managers – Canso Investment Counsel Ltd. of Richmond Hill, Ont., and New York-based GoldenTree Asset Management. Having paid more than $325-million in interest between 2010 and 2015, Postmedia is hoping to refinance the remaining debt in the coming year.

and the cop out...

Godfrey spoke to Competition Bureau commissioner John Pecman “to advise him of this” in advance. When the Competition Bureau cleared the way for Postmedia’s acquisition of the Sun properties last March, it highlighted the company’s intention to keep both papers open in each city, “including maintaining distinct editorial departments.”

On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Competition Bureau said that “while we expect the parties to honour their public commitment,” the bureau’s decision not to contest the deal “was not directly dependent on this commitment,” but on other factors such as a lack of close rivalry between the broadsheets and tabloids, ongoing competition from free dailies and growing pressure from digital alternatives.

Anonymous said...

It’s not easy being a unicorn these days. With the financial markets crashing,LNG/commodities/energy, global consumers retrenching and competition heating up