Fridays don't seem to be good days

for Christy and Co, do they? Doesn't really explain why no other Lieberal MLA was there except for backbencher Colin Hansen......

alex tsukamis

Christy didn't show because Alex Tsakumis is on her heels with the Atwal issue. However I guess the provincial government must have not like the heat because his blog is now inaccessible.Supposedly Christy has left the building and will not be back until Tuesday. If only the mainstream media would pick up the real news we could bid Christy adieu.

What flynn said...

I am watching AGT's expose unfold. She's going down.

Pity the Telus Announcement......

....is a year before the upcoming election. Now, if it was only three months, Crispy Crunch would indeed get excited....

Another engagement?

Is there any truth to the rumour that Christy had to skip her news conference to attend a surprise blanket party for Alex G. Tsakumis?

I notice companies are

I notice companies are inviting the NDP for get together with them. Maybe they are getting tired of the constant smirk and the BS she tries to spread.

Net ZeroTruth

If you are hoping Christy's fall will revive the RecredLibs, dream on - that "dump the leader and pretend it is a brand new ball game" trick didn't work with the Zalmer nor Gordo and won't with the cheerleader. All the alternatives are repugnant, and vulnerable to the fallout from their own pasts, especially the Falcon, whose entry into politics was based on untruth, going roughly like this: "I'm not political, I'm just a guy outraged by the nasty NDP, trying to recall the bunch of them for the good of the province"
If anyone who believed that is still around, I have some nice riverfront property in Bella Coola they might want to purchase - guaranteed to be great "bottomland"!
Which is where your beloved greed coalition is headed!

Memo

Looks like there was another memo. The PAB have dropped CC.

@Stewart

Conversations are beginning on the Alise Era.

Stay tuned...

We WILL defeat the BCNDP again, this time with the Swords of Breitbart.

Alice Mills!

Now THAT would be good news for the Opposition. I can think of few people who, substituted for Ms Christy, would pose even less of a threat of forming another government.

Better stick with your current horse Joe...that other nag wouldn't even rise to the level of a no-show.

I would suggest she wasn't

I would suggest she wasn't there because she would have to answer questions from the press regarding the 83 deaths at Burnaby General.

We can only guess how many other hospitals have similar records but the doctors simply haven't disclosed them.

Thank you to the Doctors at Bby General for making these statistic available to the voters of this province.

Maybe she wasn't there because Darren does like to "own" the stage while he is up there. It ws his announcement after all & Christie would have just gotten in the way.

I would suggest we won't see christie unless it is in a very tightly secured situation, which gives little acess to the press & citizens and where she just might have to compete with someone who is actually providing a means to create jobs which aren't going to foul our land, rivers, & oceans.

yup I suspect Darren can go on announcing all sorts of new inovative things for B.C. but Chrusite won't be there. Just as well.

People will want to ask her about the rebuilding of the Burns Lake Mill, will they get their $50 Million new hospital;

will Vernon's hospital ever get the money to open the unused floors,

how many people really died because of infections in the hospitals;

how many adults are housed on children's floors in hospitals, besides Nanaimo?

Will hospitals ever be clean enough again so we don't have to worry about going there. Right now it looks like its safer to go to Tornado Alley in the U.S.A. than to a B.C. hospital. From the statistics it would appear Burnaby General killed more people than the tornados.

Some one might ask about the $63 MILLION B.C. is going to pay some company, this yr, for the sea to sky highway and then every yr for 25 yrs.

What is Christie going to do about getting B.C. ferries into a better financial position. She could just return the ferry corp to its former form and save 7% interest on several Billion dollars we owe the German banks.

How does she expect children to learn in over crowded class rooms which additional children with special needs. Like one special needs teacher to assist over 100 teenagers at a Vancouver school get a plan for their education. Of course christie doesn't care, her kid goes to private school.

Why won't christie give government workers a salary increase. The lieberals have enough money for bridges, highways, & cheques for their friends who build them & flip them, for more profits. Christie is raising our cost of living so we should at least be able to earn enough to keep up with the increase in cost of living. Maybe she didn't realize hydro, ICBC, gas, etc. is all going up, not to mention the cost of bread, milk, you know those basics.

With any luck we won't be seeing any more of christie and she calls an election.

Poor excuse for management

Aside from the human costs, the financial impact of the hundreds of patients infected by c. difficile far outweighs the savings on cleaning - another proof that the Liberal created Health Authorities are incompetent bureaucrats with no business sense. This is a case of saving pennies causing the spending of dollars.
When management ignores moral and social considerations to save money, they at least have an argument to make, whether or not we agree. When theses decisions are also financially disastrous there is no justification whatever. It is obvious that is happening here; the Liberal system is a complete and utter failure and disgrace and no amount of spinning by Zero Zero and the rest of Christy's trained seals will change that.
Immoral, incompetent, incredibly costly, and plain dishonest - no new leader can spin his/her way out of this one!

G West, Skywalker, Frank, et al

It is apparent the NDP supporters are all on the same page these days; Adrian has shown respect for all our points of view and given a voice to former dissidents. Keep up the good work, and we can all argue the fine points after this (literally) sickening gang of pirates and sleazeballs are turned out to collect their undeserved public pensions!

1300 jobs

I am surprised the Snookie wasn't there to promote these 1300 jobs for teachers looking for decent working conditions.

Scratch my back & I'll .....

It's easy to make big announcements with taxpayer dollars " a three-year, $3 billion investment in B.C. (enabled by its 10-year, $1 billion provincial government supply deal)".

How much of that money is funneled back to the Liberal party in donations from Telus ? From where I sit, most of the economic activity in this Province has been made on the backs of taxpayers. Examples include BC Place, Vancouver Convention Centre, Sea to Sky highway shadow tolls, 30 year contracts to private IPP's etc. etc. It doesn't take a genius to hand out public money. By the way I'm pleased Christy Campbell/Clark did not show, I'm sick of seeing her fake smile. Her days are numbered.

FYI...

http://alexgtsakumis.com/ is back.

Oh and G West...

Alise Mills would clean the clock and run up the score against any BCNDPer NOT named Bill Tieleman.

Scheduling conflict

Entwistle should have known better than to hold the event on a Friday morning. That's when Christy and Pammy get their nails done for heaven's sake. What was he thinking?

Net Zero Truth

Here's one more proof getting rid of the Cheerleader won't fix the holes in your Libtanic - another decade, yet another name change and phoney rebranding is the least it will take to fool the public one more time, but the new reality of social media and the blogosphere no longer allow a few sold out media to brainwash the masses by suppressing negative stories. Even 'NW and Global are having to air the Atwal story now, a story which discredits your whole gang, not just CC!

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Krueger+poorly+timed+comments+benefit+anyone/6246259/story.html

KK's own party honchos can't convince him to just shut the F up - nothing new there!

question period

We know that Clark was talkative enough during Question Period on Tuesday to get reprimanded by the Speaker for being out of order. I watched on Wednesday, and she was asked at least three direct questions. Coleman or DeJong handled all the questions directed at her. Speculation, of course, but it looked for all the world like she had been muzzled. After QP she was the first to speak, in a prepared spiel on Anti-Bullying Day.

Gotta wonder what's going on behind closed doors!

What's going on behind closed

What's going on behind closed door is the plan to have the BCLibs absorbed by the BCCons. That simple.

This is why Cullen was sent be Harper to make the necessary arrangements.

Now the interesting part is this ongoing robocall scandal, with Harper visibly scared of what's happening to the best laid plans.

At the same time, if the NDP wins in BC, the corporate mafia will do their best to wreck the economy, blame the NDP and rebuild the politics behind the scenes to take over under their dictatorship. The name of the party doesn't matter.

They won't give up that easy when total victory is within their sight both federally and provincially.

Ed Deak.

Ed.

You meant Cummins not Cullen?

You're right, sorry about the

You're right, sorry about the mistake ..............

Cheers, Ed.

Stewart

Yep, sounds good to me.

sign of the times

Going back to 2005, the infamous labour dispute between Telus and the TWU's 13,000 employees.

Darren Entwistle, brought in to head the new merger between BC Tel and Telus and to "tame" the TWU with some of the worst union busting techniques since the 1930's which included security guard intimidation, insisted on a total re-write of the collective agreement.

With the help of 3300 Alberta Telus workers crossing their own picket line Telus won the battle.

Telus had already begun to trim its labour force prior to the strike, shutting down its maintenance division and laying off hundreds of workers.

By the time it was all over, Telus had increased its revenues and thousands of workers lost their jobs. The new 5 year agreement allowed Entwistle's lieutenants to outsource its operations, exchange thousands of full time jobs for part-time and save Telus an estimated $200 million. Even though these layoffs and other cost savings increased Telus' earnings it paid no taxes on this new revenue.

When Entwistle bought Clearnet it provided Telus with not only a wireless network but $800 million of tax losses which allowed Telus to pay no taxes for almost 6 years.

Entwistle tried unsuccessfully to try and relieve his company from paying further taxes after 2006 by attempting to set up an "income trust". But those damn Conservatives put an end to that tax loophole which would have seen billions of dollars disappear from the federal treasury and leave this country's social capital bankrupt. This policy reversal by the Conservatives earned them their one and only feather as far as I am concerned.

To top it all off, Telus like other corporations in BC received a 42% decrease in their taxes from Campbell and his legislative legions which helped to cripple the province's future finances and harmed both healthcare and education in the process.

Entwistle was well rewarded for slashing the company's tax "burden" and human resources. His salary and bonuses increase by 100% over the decade.

I guess these new initiatives, including some promises of jobs, is Entwistle's way of not paying any corporate taxes for the foreseeable future since Telus it seems is a bit shy of tax write offs these days.

Dix and others should be cautious about their fawning over Telus and other corporations in BC. They are not doing us a favour, they are obligated to build and hire for the generous provisions our federal and provincial taxation systems have allowed them.

The Working Man and the Elites

It's really good to see that everyone hear knows and finally understands the difference between the corrupt party of the elites and the working man's party.

Bring on the election, now!!!!!

"According to Elections B.C.

"According to Elections B.C. records, Telus has donated $352,407.35 to the B.C. Liberals since 2005 and nothing to the NDP."
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It's all about payback. Our government has been hijacked by corporations. Vote for the party with the fewest corporation connections.

Why not put it to a referendum?

One referendum
Two referenda
Three referenda
Four;

5 referenda
6 referenda
7 referenda

Sour!

Vote against the BC Liberals on anything. Vote for people who tell the truth and act accordingly.