Nick Caumanns is an Independent candidate for school trustee in Surrey.
He says he's trying to spark new ideas.
Too bad his are all wet.
Nick wants to pass a law limiting homework for all those overburdened kids and their terribly stressed parents.
Nick also wants to pay teachers $500 to coach football teams.
Back to the lab, Nick.
But keep sending in all those cards and letters, Babe.
We hear ya...
Carole James says she'll axe the (carbon) tax and raise the minimum wage to $10.
Works for me.
The day after an eight-year old kills himself by firing an Uzi into his head at a gun show, we learn that in the land of the free and the home of the brave there is a principle -"Hard economic times always result in firearm sales. People buy firearms during periods of uncertainty."
And also, I suppose, take their children to gun shows and let them play with automatic rifles.
Americans are so enamored with their guns that many are still angry at the lefty, John McCain, because he actually had the temerity to support onerous gun-control measures such as requiring purchasers to undergo background checks. The commie bastard!
Did you see the report on The Daily Show last night with real Americans worrying themselves sick about the Muslim terrorist, Barack Obama?
This was just after the story broke last night about the wing-nuts who were organizing - if you can call their frat boy ineptitude "organizing" - an Obama assassination.
The greatest country in the world...excuse me...
Wherever you may travel today, stop, get down on your knees and thank whomever or whatever you may believe in that you are on Canadian soil at this time in history.
"We are winning the war in Iraq. We are winning the war in Aghanistan."
Proof positive that there are parallel universes at play.
For the second time this week, I have found next to nothing in the news that has caught my attention.
Perhaps the world is laying low.
Perhaps we need that.
To quote the wisdom of your supermarket checkout clerk,
(everyone together now)
"Have a nice day!"
There is not much good news in the financial or business sectors these days.
All the more welcome then the small piece in this morning's Province about YVR.
YVR Airport Services Ltd., a subsidiary of the Vancouver Airport Authority owned jointly by the airport authority and the infrastructure division of U.S. banking giant Citibank, is putting in the bid for Gatwick, London's second-largest airport.
YVR operates a number of large and small airports around the world and, in spite of the dreadful taser incident last year, remains a true local success story. I have been told by friends who know such things that YVR's management team is first rate.
Congrats!
The B.C. government plans to spend $4.6 million to repair Robson Square's reflecting ponds in time for the 2010 Olympics.
Oy...
Have you been anywhere near Robson Square in the last 10 years?
Planning to be there soon?
Is Robson Square at all on your radar?
The King Of Priorities strikes again.
General Motors, Driven to the Brink
Now, there's a headline.
Not too long ago, the SUV was the biggest single profit centre a car company ever had.
It is now, thank god, toast.
"What is clear is that Detroit, among its other miscues in recent years, particularly overindulged its romance with S.U.V.’s, leaving it tethered to a product line that may prove to be the industry’s undoing."
Read the whole story here and then bless your Smart Car, scooter or 2-door hatchback and keep lobbying for real transit in Vancouver.
Who knows?
Maybe someday it will arrive.
Frank Rich of the NY Times has written a fascinating editorial this morning on the self-destruction of the McCain campaign.
He says, among other things, that "Republican leaders have no idea what “real America” is."
The piece is called "In Defense of White Americans," and it's definitely a good read.
O.K.
I've read my customary quota of newspapers.
Nothing. Zilch. Gornicht. Nyet. Cropotkin. Zero, bubula.
So, as a change-up...
Of late, I've been playing a lot of Six Degrees of Separation.
This is the mindless, time-wasting and way fun game of thinking how close you've come to serious celebrity.
Now, because of my years in broadcasting, I have already met some very interesting folk:
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Prime Ministers
Premiers
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The Vancouver Sun has been polling candidates for municipal office.
Several findings were encouraging.
Under the heading "Religion," 28.3% refused to answer.
As they all should. I don't want to know about your religion. IN fact, I really, really don't want to know.
I want to know about your stand on matters of public policy.
Under the heading of "Ethnicity," 12.2% refused to answer.
As everyone should.
I don't want to know about your "ethnicity."
I want to know about your stand on matters of public policy.
And under the heading "Immigrant," with a choice of No or Yes (in that peculiar order), 5.6% refused to answer.
As everyone should.
I don't want to know if you are someone called "an immigrant."
I want to know your stand on matters of public policy.
The photograph, by the way, is of Jeff Kuah, one of the 13 other candidates for Mayor of the City of Vancouver.
To the Gulf Island Driftwood,
Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
Victoria Times Colonist
CBC Television
David Berner’s Blog
I have just finished watching the CBC documentary of the upcoming trial of Omar Khadr, a child soldier and Canadian citizen, who is to be prosecuted by the U.S. Army Justice Department at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in November for an incident that occurred when he was 15 years old.
It is obvious from the details presented that the US Army has a vested interest in the outcome of this trial. These details include evidence of torture during interrogation, as well as re-writing the reports of US officers who were present at the incident in Afghanistan. In View of this, it is blatantly obvious that in this case, US Army justice is no justice at all. But what is astounding to me is the fact that in six years the Canadian government has not intervened on behalf of this underage Canadian citizen. In fact, our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has allowed this travesty of justice to proceed contrary to the actions of all other foreign governments in similar circumstances. The only Canadian contact I can confirm was a taped interview with Khadr by two unnamed Canadians, the outcome of which obviously did nothing but increase the accused’s feelings of hopelessness.
In conclusion, I believe this is a shameful precedent that could put all Canadians abroad in jeopardy. I hope it is not too late to take remedial action!
Sincerely,
A.G. Geoff Cue
480 Vesuvius Bay Road
Salt Spring Island, B.C. V8K 1K7
Proof positive that Barbara Yappy has lost any marble that she have had on loan is her argument today that McCain is good for Canada because he favors NAFTA.
Somehow, she has missed the main issue.
Is McCain good for the world?
And the simple answer is "No."
Obama may not be the second coming of the messiah or anything remotely close, but he is superior candidate at this time in this place.
Barbara, read a book. Read more papers. Walk the dog. Go deeper.
To the Editor - Re: 'Accelerate financial relief with those billions.'
Small Businesses will lead Canada's recovery, according a recent CIBC
report.
I guess we, the small businesses, can only lead our province and country's
recovery -
if our government doesn't succeed in ploughing us under when they build
public infrastructure projects.
October is Small Business Month in BC.
Campbell has his legacy on his mind. So do we.
Ours has been de-railed, and all our efforts to build a sturdy financial
future have been expropriated so that our Gordfather can pad his resume.
The Small Business Minister Kevin Krueger spent half an hour at the Board of
Trade this week praising our sector as essential to the economic well-being
of our Province. Unless of course, you get in the way of profits for
government projects. They are setting a precedent with this secretive Canada
Line project, that Governments can destroy your life's work at will. This is
outrageous.
There's all kinds of Campbell cash available to top up Canada Line's tank -
even when they gamble and lose our tax dollars in such careless investments
as the sub-prime mortgage market - there's Campbell with another $56 million
to bail out and prop up Canada Line.
Where is the support - where is the propping up of the very group who have
filled the Provincial coffers with billions in tax revenue for years and
years?
On the Train to Nowhere.
Enough is enough.
The baskets and banners and pretty sidewalks through the Cambie Village will
do nothing to restore the livelihoods of all who have been forced into
bankruptcy by this project.
Compensation is deserved, and long overdue. There is nothing to celebrate
until this is rectified.
Susan Heyes
HAZEL&CO
3190 Cambie St
604 687-0721
Pardon me while I gloat.
Yesterday I posted Margaret Kopala's editorial from the Ottawa Citizen in defense of the RCMP's stance against Insite.
Today, the Sun published the same piece.
Then, pardon me, while I cry.
Monday's post called "Taxi!" is all about the failure of the local transit system.
It has generated 15 comments to date, which may be a record for this blog.
The posting and especially the comments are very much worth a read.
