tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post6844636020439688855..comments2024-03-27T01:58:22.445-07:00Comments on The Gazetteer: Casino Royale's Birth Pangs....Did Smilin' Sammy Ever Suffer From Morning Sickness?RossKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-4216625942538864672010-04-14T17:55:55.014-07:002010-04-14T17:55:55.014-07:00Thanks.
.Thanks.<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-72342023212279246412010-04-14T10:38:32.945-07:002010-04-14T10:38:32.945-07:00$200 in 2008 (PDF - pg. 8)
Small potatoes, sure.$200 in 2008 (<a href="http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/election2008/pdf/disclosure/C-ANTON,_Suzanne%28D%29.PDF" rel="nofollow">PDF - pg. 8</a>)<br /><br />Small potatoes, sure.spartikushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15639539383294575736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-37711890997502144682010-04-14T10:12:33.071-07:002010-04-14T10:12:33.071-07:00Spartikus--
Date(s) and amount(s).....?
Thanks.
...Spartikus--<br /><br />Date(s) and amount(s).....?<br /><br />Thanks.<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-11724249350940015522010-04-14T10:01:46.704-07:002010-04-14T10:01:46.704-07:00For those interested, Ian Reid now has a good summ...For those interested, <a href="http://reidandwrite.ca/blog2/?p=940" rel="nofollow">Ian Reid now has a good summary up of the City's NFalse Creek ammendment process as he understands it....</a><br /><br />Ian notes that the planning document I quote from in the attached post made it clear that the City worked with PavCo to craft the ammendment....Ian also indicates that the North False Creek development plan review process, which led to the ammendment, was started in January of 2008 at the request of the province (ie. which is five months BEFORE the Premier made his big BC Place re-roofing and revitilization announcment).<br /><br />Then as a kicker, Ian asks a critical question, which is <i>"...How did the City policy makers, working hand in glove with PavCo know to include an amendment that would allow a major casino use on the site?..."</i><br /><br />(and please remember that the manager overseeing those policy makers at that time was not Penny Ballem)<br /><br /><br />_____<br />I think I would be remiss, at this point, if I didn't mention that Ian once worked as a pol in both the Vancouver Civic and BC Provincial scenes in roles that were decidedly neither NPAist nor Liberalish, many of the specifics of which can be gleaned by perusing any number of posts from Sean Holman's archives <a href="http://www.publiceyeonline.com/archives/001344.html" rel="nofollow">(here is one good, if somewhat cryptic, example)</a>....However, having said that, all of the suggestions Ian has offered up at this little plot of pixels in the Bloggodome regarding the Casino Royale matter have so far held up under scrutiny and, more importantly, they have led me to search out publically available documents that contain information of significance about what, in my opinion at least, really happened.<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-73379315552165556132010-04-14T09:31:42.065-07:002010-04-14T09:31:42.065-07:00LOL - this makes the "anti-gambling" pos...LOL - this makes the "anti-gambling" posturing of Sean Bickerton et al on Frances Bula's blog all the more hypocritical.<br /><br />What with Suzanne Anton actually getting a campaign donation from Edgwater Casino and all.spartikushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15639539383294575736noreply@blogger.com