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As we noted yesterday, those who call out the Keef and his fellow proMedia Club members for playing insider access game are, apparently, underwear wearers who are doing nothing more than shouting from their parents' basements.
Or some such thing.
Anyway...
In the wake of the recent IPP 'report'', David Beers of the Tyee reminds us that Rafe Mair was all over this story of craptacular crony capitalism that was going to screw us all to the wall back when it was actually happening:
...“We British Columbians are the ongoing and apparently disinterested victims of a world-class deception and it has gone on since 2002 when Gordon Campbell announced British Columbia’s new Energy Plan.
“Let’s start there because that’s where the decade of incredibly stupid policy regarding BC Hydro began. From that moment on BC Hydro wasn’t permitted to bring on new sources of energy, ‘Site C’ excepted. All new power was to be made by private companies."...
Which, for anyone who has been paying attention and/or reading Norm Farrell, was pretty much self evident.
But what about all those folks who don't pay attention, real hard?
You know, that big slice of the citizenry who, according to the Keef, are unable to 'differentiate'.
Well.
Perhaps they just haven't, as Rafe also noted, been educated by those with the biggest barrels of ink and/or megaphones:
...“I pause here to point out that so far as I can find, the Province, the Vancouver Sun and its main political columnists, Mike Smyth and Vaughn Palmer, have said nary a peep critical about all this.”...
'Nuff said?
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Sean Holman who, to the best of our knowledge, does not live in anybody's basement since he moved to Calgary, wrote about the insider access thing, specifically with reference to the legislative press gallery, recently as well.
And, for the record, Mr. Mair himself once chided us for using italic Courier for pull quotes saying that, while he understood the old-timeyness of the approach, it was just too hard on the eyes...We agreed to disagree.
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Sunday, February 17, 2019
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Yet another stinking BC Liberal dumpster fire: ICBC, money-laundering/real-estate/fentanyl/casino, Legislature spending, etc, etc.
It would be an understatement (bigly) to say that I am not a fan of the Keef. However, probably in an effort to demonstrate how obvious the IPP conniving was and is, rather than to illustrate his journalistic merits, I’ll point out that even Mr. Baldrey noticed.
https://www.newwestrecord.ca/opinion/columns/b-c-hydro-needs-to-get-a-closer-look-1.555147
https://www.nsnews.com/opinion/columnists/baldrey-ndp-turns-up-the-heat-on-bc-hydro-file-1.2234690
Which makes the lack of digging and Paul Revering on this by the folks Rafe mentioned all the more insulting to their chosen and purported profession.
I thought the NDP said they would review and cancel these projects.
lew; Interesting articles. I am shocked.
Did these stalwart guys keep at it? Was there a 24 hr news desk, similar to Glen's $10, 00.00 deck?
Their coverage has been called into question because it was desultory at best, when critical of the Liberals.
The calls that they were to close to power? Who did D Hahn call first when he was notified of the Queen of the North. sinking?
J MacDuff--
I agree - that's the key - the staying with it part..
I notice that the Dean, who is famous for throwing a jab and then retreating to his corner for the rest of the round, has been furiously pointing out the Club's one offs on the Twittmachine.
Put another way...
There was never an IPP 'War Room' like there was for, say, a back deck.
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BC media press release plagiarism?
http://blogborgcollective.blogspot.com/2016/02/will-bc-liberals-expropriate-ipp.html
WAC Bennett expropriated the first IPPs back at the beginning of BC Hydro
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