Lotuslandian Bloggodome Round-Up Thursday...

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After pointing out the blue and red causes of the great Manitoba rail crisis Mr. Beer 'N Hockey gets to the heart of the matter:

...See what we have? A problem created by Conservatives being furthered by the Liberals and the Manitoba Conservatives. There is a better way and I am happy both my province and the province of Alberta chose it. If we must be governed more Canadians than ever had better stop voting for parties that are more concerned about tax dodges for the rich and start voting for parties who focus on the needs of the working people of Canada...

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Laila is back at it, hammering away again at the true cost and the hypocrisy of Site C. Here is here latest lede:

I was working on some research when I first heard the decision on Site C would come by December 31st, 2017…exactly two years from the day I first started blogging about Site C in earnest. Since then a multitude of opinion editorials, articles and statements have been made by both those opposing and those in support. ( It’s here I’ll mention the only formal group campaigning in support seems to be the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association,spearheaded by rep Jordan Bateman. Yes, that’s the same Jordan Bateman,former taxpayers champion who worried about the costs of Site C )...

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Grant G., as you might expect, goes deep into the Clarklandian duplicity re: Site C which he reckons was greately assisted by a cowed and complicit local proMedia club:

...(A)ny premier, of any province or territory in Canada who refused to send a multi-billion dollar taxpayer funded project to the regulatory body to see if the project was cost effective or even needed, then said premier, after denying a proper review told the public that the entire project was being fast-tracked and rushed forward for the stated goal to push the project past the point of no return...

Any premier who did that should have been vilified in the press, chased from office...

BC's (pro)media was......silent......now in late 2017 that same media is not silent they're are complicit in cheerleading a $12 billion dollar ill-conceived, not needed energy project...

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Meanwhile, Norm Farrell curates the most interesting tweets on all things Site C and clearly illustrates the Dean of the Legislative's Press Gallery's ref-working techniques:

...(The VSun's Vaughn) Palmer wrote that Energy Minister Michelle Mungall was “chippy” but that MLA Tracy Redies, former CEO of Coast Capital Savings Credit Savings Union, demonstrated expertise and “was able to elicit significant information.” He could have added that the information was already on the public record but this was about painting a complimentary portrait of the woman who departed Coast Capital unexpectedly with a huge severance payout after the member-owned bank donated large sums to the BC Liberal Party...

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Finally, while it is a bit of a cross-over act, the MoCo's Lotuslandian Central guy, Justin McElroy, has one heck of a poll going on the best of Canuckistanian Anglais Tee Vee going....The latest is the round of 32...Head on over if you've got 15 minutes that you never want back but want to kill pleasurably, regardless.

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And, in case you've missed it...Pete Kelly has been posting some good, solid succinct and insightful #BCPoli stuff over at his place.
Speaking of things we're missing already... Stanley Q. Woodvine does an amazing job rooting out Lotusland's best non-smashed pumpkins still sitting on doorstops near you.



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