These Doomed Days Of The Golden Era....The Clarkening.

Let'sGetMikey
He'llTryAnythingVille


Well, well, well...

The behindest-of-behind-the-scene scenesters of all times has written a letter, not to the BCUC, but instead to Mr. Horgan.

And Club members like this one are lapping it up:

Of course, hidden inside the so-called 'bluff calling' instrument (i.e. Ms. Clark's letter) is an actual bluff:

Which leads citizens who pay attention, folks like Lew Edwardson for example, to ask the following of the good Mr. Smyth and his ilk:

Meanwhile...

When, exactly, is our legislature, where such things can be openly discussed and debated, opening again?


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And So It Begins...

ThePriceOfClubMembershipIs
NotCheapVille


Last week we noted a bit of pithy anti-Club reality uttered by retired proMedia member Rod Mickleburgh:

Link

And then, by week's end we got a piece in the Financial Post under Jesse Snyder's byline overtop a headline that said:

"It's Going To Cost A Fortune': Cancellation Of $8.8B Site C Dam Would Scrap Billions Of Dollars In Contract Work.

Now.

I just have have to ask, before I even begin to untie the pretzel of the logic of the header and/or the piece itself...

Are these people insane?



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They Were Somewhere Around Langley When...

SomeDesertsAreGreener
ThanOthersVille


Mr. Beer 'N Hockey and the gang went to the drive-in last night.

The movie was not to their liking.

But, in the end, the evening's cinematic shortcomings did not matter because:

...The night was still marvellous... Half moon. Bright stars. Bats hoovering the buggy suburban sky.

Imagine that.

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What's it all about Alfie?....Why, the good Docktor and his attorney, who was most definitely not Samoan.., Of course.


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The Big Pretzel In The Globe And (No Longer Empire) Mail's Logic.

TheSmartestBoysClub
InTheRoomVille


The Globe has some advice for the current premier of British Columbia:

...The NDP and Greens are promising to ban corporate and union donations, cap individual donations – ideally, Quebec’s $100 per person limit should be the model – and review the entire system of electoral finance. It’s about time.

If Ms. Clark is wise, she will embrace campaign finance reform in her throne speech. Get ahead of public opinion, or, in this case, just catch up with it...


Weirdly, however, that very advice came immediately after the following paragraph:

...Ms. Clark and her party should have followed the lead of the federal government and other provinces, and banned union and corporate donations, while capping the maximum individual donation. They did not because, however bad it looked and however cynical it made voters, it allowed the party to be so much better funded than its rivals. For example, the B.C. Liberals raised nearly $1-million in the three days after the May 9 election. Several donors wrote cheques for $25,000 or more – amounts way too large to be legal federally or in many provinces...


Hmmmm....

Do you see what the finest of the fine fine folks at the Globe and Mail washed away there?

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Of course, it won't be long before the Ledgie Boys and the Inspector start blaming the new and improved, not to mention massive, Crony Party Party war chest on John Horgan and Andrew Weaver.

As for Ron Obvious?

Well...

We await his 'source-driven' whacking of the coalition's true colours and/or motives with bated breath.

Or some such thing.

OK?


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Former Member of Lotuslandian ProMedia Club Burns Membership Card.

ThereIsAClub
AndYouAreNotInItVille

Link

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There really is a club?...Darn tootin'.



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These Doomed Days In Clarkland...The Cronification Of Everything Is NOT Over.

AllYourPostElectionDonations
'RUsVille


This just in from Sam Cooper of Postmedia:

The last two open lots on a prime False Creek Flats development site owned by four B.C. universities have been offered in a confidential untendered sale to several Vancouver developers, in a deal that must be approved by the B.C. government.

According to information reviewed by Postmedia News, the confidential sale proposal by the Great Northern Way Trust — a land-development group involving BCIT, SFU, UBC and Emily Carr University — came together in May. Circumstances of the deal, which must be approved by the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Advanced Education, seem to underline the high stakes at play in B.C.’s new uncertain political terrain...

{snip}

...A person with knowledge of the deal said the four universities that are shareholders of GNW must approve the deal before June 15 so that it can be put forward for government approval...


Gosh.

Is it possible we now know the real reason that our current fine premier is willing herself to be humble through June?

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I highly recommend that you go and read Mr. Cooper's entire piece.

However, you may wish to slip into an ice water bath first to keep your blood from boiling over.

Especially when you recall...

...This.


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These Doomed Days In Clarkland...Who Will Be The Replacement?

JasonKenny
BlueprintVille


A whole lotta folks, Laila Yuile included, think it might be the Birdman of Falcontraz.

Charlie Smith has another suggestion...

...(K)eep an eye on Jordan Bateman of the Independent Contractors & Businesses Association of B.C.. He's articulate and witty, and he's loved by the car dealers for his constant denigration of public transit.

He just might have the right stuff to replace Clark as B.C. Liberal leader should Deputy Premier Coleman offer his blessing.


Hmmmmm....

Does having the 'right stuff' include being able to lay astroturf of the finest Big Richian kind?



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This Doomed Day In Clarkland...What, No Shredding?

AllYourRFP's
'RUsVille


My, my, my....

Look what the Mackin dragged in:

Gosh.

That is some advice trough, that 'Freedom Of Information and Protection of Privacy Act' advice trough.

Big Rich must be so proud.

But where, pray tell, is the shredding contract?

Or....

Is that a double secret probational super-secret hidden behind ye 'ol FIPPA advice wailing wall?


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This Doomed Day In Clarkland: Snout-In-Troughers We Have Known...

TheIronyIt
BurnsVille


...And will not miss.

Not even for.

One.

Single.

Second.

Link

OK?

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This Doomed Day In Clarkland...Will She Go?

LobbyingIsSoMuchEasierThan
GoverningVille

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Update, 1:35pm Tuesday....Apparently, Ms. Clark, to quote Mr. Zimmerman, ain't goin' nowhere.

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Marky Mark says....

No?


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Stay tuned for the word salad world champion's 'statement' at 1:30pm today/Tuesday.


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