Bill Tieleman’s Basi-Virk-BC Rail Trial Coverage

This morning I want give a quick plug for a fellower blogger and poltical commentator Bill Tieleman. Tieleman has been relentlessly following the Basi-Virk-BC Rail corruption trial. The material coming out of this trial makes for very interesting reading and is shining a light deep into the workings of the BC Rail sale. I encourage you to make Tieleman’s [...]

Solicitor General Kash Heed Follows BC Liberal Tradition of Resigning under Cloud of Suspicion

It has definitely not been a good week for the BC Liberals. First off, former premier, Bill Vander Zalm took his anti-HST fight into the heart of Campbell territory and had 475 voters sign the anti-HST petition on the first night it was available. That is 10% of the required signees on the first night of the [...]

The BC Liberal Index, Fall 2009

 B.C. LIBERAL INDEX Fall 2009 With apologies to HARPER’S Amount consumers will have to fork over for the HST: $1.9 billion Tourism jobs that will be lost due to the HST: 10,000 Restaurant industry jobs that will be lost due to the HST: 12,000 Number of HST-free Christmases left: 1, unless we stop the HST [...]

Vaughn Palmer on BC Rail Trial

Managed to talk with Vaughn Palmer at the convention. I asked him about the BC Rail Trial saga. Specifically I asked him if he thought the trial would ever get rolling and he says he thinks this new judge on the case is going to make it happen. As he put it, the trial will [...]

BC Rail leadership reorganization

It is reassuring to hear the Honourable Shirley Bond, minister responsible for transportation in BC, responding to the BC Rail situation so quickly. A mere six years after the vast majority of the BC Rail assets were handed over to CN Rail, the four members of the leadership team who collectively earn approximately $1.2 million [...]

BC Rail scandal continues for the people of BC

Almost it seems as if to add financial insult to financial injury inflicted on the people of BC, the BC Liberals continue to assualt the good sense of the BC taxpayer with their handling of the BC Rail situation. Six years after privatizing the BC Rail system, after explicitly promising not to privatise the system, the [...]