tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post1649384641935394444..comments2024-03-27T01:58:22.445-07:00Comments on The Gazetteer: All (Very) Quiet On The Quick Wins Front...RossKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-42093547949665319512017-10-16T10:21:37.564-07:002017-10-16T10:21:37.564-07:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhINJ-5Wqqkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhINJ-5WqqkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-51632056090029044522017-10-14T13:14:33.726-07:002017-10-14T13:14:33.726-07:00the case is mostly over??? tampering with our de...the case is mostly over??? tampering with our democracy is never over nor should it be. If it is done once, it can be done a whole lot more often. A democracy is only as good as those who protect it. The MSM in this case did nothing to help democracy. As we used to say back in the day: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. <br /><br />In the U.S.A. it would appear that the Russia tampered with their democracy. In B.C. we do it ourselves. Its very very sick. thank goodness for bloggers who publish the truth along with those who read and contribute more information. e.a.f.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-1431748730488749372017-10-14T09:19:58.586-07:002017-10-14T09:19:58.586-07:00Inquisitive pro journalists might wonder if what a...Inquisitive pro journalists might wonder if what appears to be standard practice for silencing a worker bee might also be standard practice for silencing those of higher status in the hive. And just what that practice might look like.<br /><br />The pay scale for refraining from "doing anything that would damage the Premier and the party" seems to run from "x dollars per month to do non public work" up to release from liability for $6.4 million to plead guilty and then remain silent. Are there other instances along that scale, with varying amounts or methods of payment? Surely not in BC! Those are the only two, the pro journos seem to be saying; and even those not too loudly.<br /><br />I also note with some interest, given the special prosecutor and surprise guilty plea situation, that the guy who signed the Basi/Virk plea deal with the defendants behind the special prosecutor's back during the BC Rail trial is now our Deputy Attorney General. Hopefully he was more courteous to the special prosecutor in this case.<br /><br />Lewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-85259302282860351392017-10-13T22:32:44.931-07:002017-10-13T22:32:44.931-07:00http://vancouversun.com/news/politics/guilty-plea-...http://vancouversun.com/news/politics/guilty-plea-in-quick-wins-scandal-wraps-up-long-running-case<br /><br />Special prosecutor David Butcher, who was appointed in 2013 to look into allegations of partisan use of taxpayer resources to win votes in ethnic communities, said Friday the case is now mostly over.<br /><br />“Subject to some other small odds and ends that need to be wrapped up, and there are a couple, the sentencing will be the last significant act,” Butcher said in an interview.<br /><br />Odds and ends indeed. Where else have we heard Mr. Butchers name?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-56964895207011641732017-10-13T21:42:04.586-07:002017-10-13T21:42:04.586-07:00Sour Grapes Trivia: MLA Harry Bloy nominated Brian...Sour Grapes Trivia: MLA Harry Bloy nominated Brian Bonnie and Sepideh Sarrafpour to be recipients for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0ahUKEwjs9POPnu_WAhUE6IMKHfZwA0MQFggwMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.openinfo.gov.bc.ca%2Fd2133414a_response_package_oop-2013-00300.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1Ouf5Ne2Lz8isSspHgOlOd" rel="nofollow">docs.openinfo.gov.bc.ca/d2133414a_response_package_oop-2013-00300.pdf</a> <br /><br />Will the medal be clawed back from Brian Bonney?<br /><br />Apparently not according to <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2013/02/08/queens-diamond-jubilee-medals-a-fiasco" rel="nofollow">Warren Kinsella's</a> Opinion February 9, 2013<br /><br /><i>... Out west, a Conservative MP gave medals to a couple of convicted criminals. Out of the 30 medals MP Maurice Vellacott received, one was received by an anti-abortion fanatic, Mary Wagner, who happened to be in jail at the time. Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson, who theoretically oversees the legal system that put Wagner in jail, was asked how such a thing could happen. Ask Vellacott, he said. No one seems to know much, or care.<br /><br />In London, as the Free Press revealed, a former municipal politician who has been convicted of municipal corruption got a medal, as well. George Avola was honoured this week by Mayor Joe Fontana — who himself is awaiting trial on charges of fraud, uttering forged documents and breach of trust by a public official. How could such a thing happen? Again: No one knows. .... </i>North Van's Grumpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17571810726275726952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-6438987896286816462017-10-13T21:05:30.895-07:002017-10-13T21:05:30.895-07:00NVG--
In a word...
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.NVG--<br /><br />In a word...<br /><br />No.<br /><br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-14769609118298954842017-10-13T20:34:39.945-07:002017-10-13T20:34:39.945-07:00@RossK Do you think that the fine and upstanding ...@RossK Do you think that the fine and upstanding BC Liberal Party, which paid the BC Treasury back for illegally billed hours that Mr. Bonney initially claimed was all Caucus work, now be looking to claw back the other half from Mr. Bonney, with his admission of guilt.North Van's Grumpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17571810726275726952noreply@blogger.com