Canada-Israel Committee expresses satisfaction with decision of Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) members to reject
“We’re delighted with this decision, which should be taken as a ringing endorsement of MEC’s outstanding policy on ethical sourcing”, said CIC’s Pacific region chairman Dr.
“MEC members across the country were outraged by this attempt by a few hard-line ideologues to hijack the agenda of one of
Ted Reynolds was a great broadcaster.
Like a handful of others, Reynolds happened to be talking about sports.
And like that same handful, it was clear that he could cover any subject if he really so wished.
A rare bird, indeed, he will be missed.
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2009/04/29/sp-ted-reynolds.html
Sure, there are bigger news stories.
Swine flu is now a level 5 pandemic. That's a big story.
The nightmare known as Darfur continues.
It's Thursday, so North Korea issues its weekly nuclear threat.
Still.
Is there any excuse for this provincial election?
Have you ever seen such mud-sucking lethargy?
I've seen meetings of the Public Library that were more energized than this.
The NDP should be hacking and hailing and hefting all over the place, scoring bulls-eye after bulls-eye.
Instead, it continues its two left feet demo, proving once again that having advisers who failed the party two decades ago are maybe not your best bet going in. (Someone might also suggest to Iggy Pop this weekend that Francis Fox left office disgraced as a liar and a crook and having him on your tram ain't such a robust idea either.)
What exactly is the burning issue for May 12th?
The economy, stupid? Roads? Hydro? Canlit?
Search me.
We have proven our hickness with this one for sure. Dogcatcher, Illinois. A fight to the finish over renaming Railway Road to Hilltop Terrace.
For a similar opinion - and a few very funny lines - check out Alex Tsakumis in today's 24 hours.
And wake me when it's over.
We seem to have such a surfeit of it out here on the Wet Edge.
Two stretchy examples:
More than two years after the spectacular collapse of the roof over the site of the 2010 Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, there are still few written procedures for handling similar emergencies and a lack of staff training at the provincially owned facility, WorkSafeBC has found.
Hey, wassa hurry, Buddy?
Then this:
A street racer involved in a crash that killed a Vancouver woman almost nine years ago has been deported to India.
Sukhvir Singh Khosa lost his bid to stay in Canada in March after the country's top court ruled he had to be deported.
Mr. Khosa left Canada on Tuesday.
Irene Thorpe was struck on a Vancouver street and killed in November of 2000 as Mr. Khosa and another man were street racing.
His co-accused, Bahadur Singh Bhalru, was deported four years ago.
Nine years, four years...Iceberg, Goldberg, wassa difference?
You know why it's "the best place on earth?"
Not because Gordon tells us, but because we have so much time on out hands.
I think I'll go out and stand on the boulevard for a few weeks.
Yesterday, I posted a "John van Dongen Exclusive."
I'm told that Global TV did a similar thing recently and had to apologize as well.
The gist of the story is that I had learned that John van Dongen had a charge of running a red light pending against him.
Turns out there are two John van Dongens.
The man who is charged with running the red light is considerably older than the former Solicitor-General and collector of speeding tickets.
Top Cop has enough troubles without my adding needlessly to them.
I apologize and put myself in the penalty box for 23 hours for "piling on."
There is much to amuse in this morning's coverage of the resignation of Top Cop, John van Dongen. If only it were in the least amusing.
The nine speeding offences in five years, the man's announcements about crackdowns on speeding, the four contested tickets, the three contests he for which he failed to appear in court, and so on.
Donkey says he always tries to separate his personal life from his work.
Wrong.
Thinking error.
Can't be done in your arena, Johnny.
But here is the real news.
Brace yourself. It is unlikely that you will read or hear this anywhere else, because this was sent to me by a friend, who just happens to be a policeman.
I found some more information on Van Dongen's driving record that you might find interesting.... If you look him up at the "Court Services Online" website you will find his speeding tickets, but there is also an open file of him that is reported as this: "10-Jan-2008 MVA - 127(1)(a)(iii) Failing to yield to vehicle on green light". It looks to me like he ran a red light in Delta and might have even caused an accident. His next appearance in court is listed as "Richmond Provincial Court 30-Jun-2009 09:30 AM". If you want to see this for yourself, the website for Court Services Online is located at https://eservice.ag.gov.bc.ca/cso/esearch/criminal/partySearch.do You can just enter his name to find the records, or you can use this file number I got from the site - 28738815 (you also need to select the court location which is Richmond).
So, while the Good Burro claims that he has now "learned his lesson," turns out he still hasn't told us the full story.
He still hasn't admitted to running a red light.
This by the way is the exact same action that killed RCMP officer Jimmy Ng.
And this man is going to run for public office again?
Swine flu comes from animals and humans interacting.
The disease jumps the genus barrier and mutates from barnyard pet (or lunch) to keeper.
Wait.
Don't we just live in the greenest darn city on earth?
Isn't this the forward-loooking place that just voted to allow chickens in your back yard?
Oh, good.
In Mexico City, many, many people live in close proximity, right in the heart of the city, to pigs and chickens and goats. How cute.
Let me know when the tacos are ready, Compadre.
Step right up! Get 'em here! Get 'em while they're hot!
That's right! Authentic Canadian Flag Pins! Show your true colors, show your patriotism.
Get these authentic flag pins supplied by an authentic Quebec company and made by...uh, that is, made in...uh...
Excuse me.
These Canadian Flag Pins were made in China.
We have companies right here in Canada who make flag pins.
One of them has an office two blocks from Parliament.
Pity, you say.
Only in Canerder.
The FEDERAL Liberals are holding their Group Grope at one of the big Downtown hotels this week.
You will read and hear much about Iggy Pop and his book(s).
What you won't learn is the cheesy other side of what these songfests are really like. And what they cost.
A friend, who has never belonged to a political party before, decided to join the Liberals recently. Her tale of trying to find the office, then finding it and finding almost nothing but a few packing boxes and some kid straight out of college who knew absolutely nothing about anything is hysterically funny.
She did pay the $20 bucks to get her membership, but she didn't get even so much as a receipt.
When she said she wanted to attend the Convention, she was sent to one local outpost after another in search of a gang with whom she might appropriately bond.
Turns out, she was "a senior."
Ah, age.
Finally, after a couple months of dizzying run-around, she was triumphantly welcomed into the great Liberal fold and invited to attend the famous Piss-Up.
Well, "invited" is perhaps a debatable word in this context.
Her "fee" for showing up and caring enough to register was...now, I can't remember (ah, age), but something like $900.
She passed.
Still has her party card though.
She'll read about Iggy's book(s), just like you and me.
And they wonder why they can't elect anyone outside of Toronto.
The Brits will give you $3,500 for your old clunker if you buy a new car; the Germans 4 Grand.
It's all terribly false economics - tricks by tricksters for stupid people.
Let us pray that Harper's Used Car Lot doesn't get this idea into its pretty head.
Let me see if I've got this right.
John van Dongen is the Solicitor-General of the Province of British Columbia.
He is responsible for the police, the courts and ICBC, among other small matters.
In short, he is Top Cop.
And he cannot drive a car these days because
a)he has speeding tickets;
and b)he has unpaid speeding tickets.
And the Premier, Gordon Campbell in defending this idiocy, casually downgrades the speeding tickets to parking tickets, a cute little bit of verbal jujitsu if there ever was one.
Let's begin by pointing out to the fellow who wants to be your premier for the 3d unbearable time that parking tickets arrive on your windshield when you leave your car somewhere it doesn't belong at that time. A relatively innocuous offense against obscure and usually nonsensical taxing laws that can barely be justified at the best of times.
Whereas, your Honour, speeding tickets come about when you are madly racing through public corridors at dangerous high velocities way in excess of what may be good for the common weal.
One would think that if anyone should know the wrongness of such behaviour, it would be Mr. Top Cop.
Oh, but wait.
We forgot. He is special. He is John van Donkey, Special person.
And his deep need to catch the ferry boat and get back to his little life in Abbotsford far precludes all other community needs, like say, life and limb.
The Premier Personage says this will all blow over and that van Donkey should be congratulated for braying loudly and publicly what a bad boy he is.
I, like many of you, am of a different mind.
I think that this selfish fool should be denied the opportunity to disgrace another government portfolio after May 12th.
I don't hold out much hope for this to transpire. No doubt the good and faithful of Abbotsford are forgiving and forgetful souls and The Donkey will ride again.
A million human beings face starvation in Sudan, in Darfur. Aid workers have been expelled from the country.
There is hardly a greater testimony to the painful failures of the United Nations to even begin to approach its forming ideals.
Of course, you cannot say, "Stop. This billion dollar farce is taking us nowhere, except the best lunch rooms in Manhattan."
But cannot some men and women of good will strip this body back to its essentials and make it something effective and praise-worthy?
Yesterday, we are told by full page ads in papers across the nation, was WORLD MALARIA DAY.
Every 30 seconds, a child in Africa dies of malaria. A $10 bed net will help. Here's the web address for your donation.
So many billions of taxpayers dollars in America, Canada, the UK, Germany are going to bolster wars and skirmishes in countries around the world. Cannot we not divert some of these questionable investments in healthy children and families in suffering regions?
He was racing through Richmond streets at speeds in excess of 130 k/hr.
His name is Stuart Chan.
He killed RCMP officer Jimmy Ng.
He got two years for criminal negligence and he was released on parole after eight months.
He promised that he would talk to teens about the dangers of street racing.
Hahahahaha...it is to weep.
Of course, none of that has happened.
Now, the world turns to Wally Opaque for justice.
Hahahaha...it is to throw up.
"Well, we trusted a liar," says Wally.
Can we call this "projection?"
Wondering what VANOC's Integrated Security Unit have been doing with the millions they will spend in the coming months?
Simple.
They are visiting old men who kvetch about The Games.
Peter Scott is 73, he lives in Surrey and he often sends clippings from the newspapers to public figure with his comments scribbled on the side.
We like to call that, FREE SPEECH.
But that Orwellian Big Brother known as VANOC has other ideas.
Read the entire frightening anti-democratic story here.
Excuse me...there's someone pounding at the front door...
Most movie reviews are unreadable bought-and-paid-for shill jobs.
The moment you see the word "triumph," this should be your cue to go running at top speed to anywhere else.
But every so often, you read a piece about a new release and you say, "O.K. Now there's a flick I've got to see.
Check out A.O. Scott's item in this morning's NY Times on James Toback's documentary film, "Tyson."
The article includes video clips.
Looks darn good.
