Overview

There's been a flurry of new news and I just wanted give a brief overview since older posts quickly get buried on the blog. The big news is Kim Bolan's report on the Kevin LeClair murder trial. The defense lawyer claims the crown witnesses are lying to save their own skins and that is clearly true. The defense has successfully established that the crown witnesses have no credibility because they keep changing their story and their current claims contradict the evidence. The only real witness saw two shooters. The one that opened up fire with an automatic assault rifle was much larger and more muscular than the other. That doesn't fit Corey's description. That fits K-9's description. It wasn't Corey. The crown witnesses are lying again.

The shooting at the Quebec courthouse was outrageous. Five officers couldn't control a very mild scuffle with one kid and the officer that was choking the kid pulls out a gun and shoots the kid in the head all caught on video. The officers dragged the kid into a side room because they knew they were being filmed. That was obscene.

The local gas fraud is out of control along with the news of the current ICBC fraud. This kind of corruption needs to be addressed becaue it is exactly what caused the Greek financial crisis.

Two Toronto cops called 911 after they chowed down on pot edibles they seized in a raid.

Legalizing all drugs is the wrong road. That is not the Portugal model.

There was a fatal shooting at a known drug house in Chilliwack on January 31st.

A Surrey man was shot in Richmond Thursday night.

Russia's Olympic ban has been lifted so hopefully we'll see them on the ice during the Olympics.

The Honduras police chief assisted a cartel leader deliver a ton of cocaine.

Larry Amero was busted in Ottawa January 25th.

I posted the real story about Dianne Watts and Rich Coleman.

Ian Mulgrew wrote about the corruption case Dianne Watts hid when she was mayor.

The Trans Mountain Pipeline is a fair compromise.

The Black Panther movie hits the theater as they start filming for Creed II

Wanted is a great Australian TV series on Netflix. Season 2 starts off in Thailand.

The Good Place is another great TV series on Netflix. It is light and funny.

Alex Caine made the big screen in Quebec

Surrey man shot in Richmond

The Peace arch News is reporting that "Richmond RCMP are investigating a shooting after a Surrey man, 20, was found suffering from injuries Thursday night in the 7000-block of Westminster Highway." CTV is reporting that "It appeared that he had been shot near the 6200-block of Lynas Lane."

Postal Union Innovates while Canada Post Stands Still

The Huffington Post is reporting that Canada Post Continues To Stand Still As The World Passes It By but that is simply not true. In reality, the Postal union has some great ideas for innovation while Canada Post and the Canadian government let that brilliant opportunity pass them by.

The Huffington Post article regurgitates the same old rhetoric about getting rid of the postal monopoly. Mail volumes are declining. We could easily go to second day delivery. Parcels are the way of the future. Canada Post delivers Amazon and online orders. Instead of fighting over table scraps by getting rid of the postal monopoly we need to look at getting rid of the banking monopoly. That is where the real money is.

The Union is suggesting we bring back postal banking. That makes sense. Especially in rural areas: #ABankForEveryone Breaking the bank monopoly would be in everyone's best interest.

No Motive in Dover Park Shooting

Kim Bolan is reporting that "A young gangster was convicted Thursday in the August 2015 attempt to kill his own associate in Richmond’s Dover Park. Richmond Provincial Court Judge Bonnie Craig said the circumstantial evidence at trial proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Thomas Duong participated in the near-fatal shooting of Matin Pouyan on the night of Aug. 21, 2015. Craig agreed with the defence that there was no apparent motive behind the murder plot and that Duong and Pouyan had been seen hanging out together on the day of the shooting."

The judge claims the shooting was premeditated but had no motive. That makes absolute no sense. Every crime has a motive. It couldn't have been premeditated if there was no motive.

Latest ICBC Fraud in the News

There has been a lot of talk recently about the latest ICBC Fraud. The MSM claim both BC provincial parties are blaming each other but it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out what happened. You can't blame this on the NDP. The Liberal government extracted a $1.3 billion dividend from ICBC to balance Christy Clark's fake fudgeit budget. That was another act of fraud just like how they extracted a $852 million dividend from BC Hydro that wasn't there.

Peter Rose from Delta wrote in to the Vancouver Province and nailed it. "How gullible does Attorney-General David Eby think the public is? The Insurance Corp. of B.C. is $1.3 billion in the red, but the Liberal government siphoned off $1.3 billion from ICBC. That means ICBC is breaking even. It’s up to the provincial government to reimburse ICBC the funds it took and, in future, keep its hands out of the till."

This is the same kind of investment fraud that created the Greek financial Crisis and the BC Liberals keep getting away with it. In this case, they extracted a dividend from ICBC which did not exist to falsify their budget and created another manufactured emergency. They did the same thing to BC Hydro only worse.

Before they forced BC Hydro to borrow $852 million to give the BC Liberals they privatized the independent power brokers that sell power to the public company at above market rates. That means they created a tsunami of deferred debt withing BC Hydro then on top of that forced them to borrow more money they didn't have to give to the BC Liberals. They all should be in jail. Before we do anything we need to fix that fraud before it continues to get any worse.

Norm Farrell nails it - Again

Two hikers stabbed on Mount Seymour

The Georgia Straight is reporting that "North Vancouver RCMP are investigating what happened to two men who were found stabbed on Mount Seymour. On February 1 at 5:09 a.m., an injured male hiker on Dog Mountain Trail on Mount Seymour called 911 for help. Emergency Services found him on a trail about one kilometre from the Mount Seymour parking lot and took him to hospital. Then at 8:30 a.m., Emergency Services received and responded a call from a second male hiker in the same area, who also needed medical help due to similar injuries. RCMP stated in a news release that both of their injuries were knife wounds resulting from an altercation, and that both men were known to each other. At a press conference, RCMP stated that the two men had been camping together."

Global is reporting that one of the injured people was known to police. When I first saw the report I was like, WTF? That's the trail I always hike on. This time of year it's covered in snow so they had to have been showshoers. Only it was on Dog mountain not the longer trail up to Seymour first, second and third peak past Brockton Point. I always skip Dog Mountain.

10th Anniversary of the Lindsay Buziak murder

The Times Colonist is reporting that "Dozens gathered Friday to mark the 10-year anniversary of Lindsay Buziak’s death. The 24-year-old real estate agent was stabbed and killed while showing a home in Gordon Head on Feb. 2, 2008. Her father, Jeff Buziak, arrived in Victoria from Calgary this week to lead the annual Walk for Justice."

Pipeline Politics

Although the entire debate is really silly, I will comment on it since it does effect our economic interests. In essence John Horgan started it because he said his government intends on restricting the amount of oil that passes through the pipeline. That's kind of dumb but also does reflect a valid concern. No one wants an oil spill. It damages the environment and wastes money. Protecting the environment is important but economic growth is a part of the real world we live in.



The Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion is simply twinning an existing pipeline. That is the best possible model. Twinning an existing pipeline is far less invasive than cutting a new pipeline through old growth forests. That is what they originally intended on doing. This new proposal is a fair and logical compromise. I agree with Justin Trudeau on that issue. Trudeau said no to the Northern Gateway project which involved cutting a new pipeline through an old growth forest and approved the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion which was simply twinning the existing pipeline. That made sense. Navigating tankers through the Douglas channel was foolish.

People get stuck in the oppose the pipeline mindset and forget environmentalists successfully defeated the the Northern Gateway project. There will be no new pipeline cutting through old growth forests. A lot of extremists simply protest anything and everything. In their mind their is no compromise and they refuse to listen to anyone else's opinion but their own.

A trade war between BC and Alberta is silly. This isn't about BC voters against Alberta voters. It's about Canadian voters against extremists who refuse to compromise and refuse to listen to anyone else but themselves. We want Alberta beef. We want Alberta oil. We want to support Canadian products. We hope Alberta wants BC wine. It's a good local product. We all want to make some money so we can feed our families.

Has there ever been an oil spill in the existing pipeline? I am not aware of any. Obviously we don't want to pump oil through the pipeline at a dangerous rate that would make a potential oil spill far reaching. It's like we all want to drive on the freeway but driving at 300 miles an hour isn't safe.

Yet none of us want to pay $5.00 a litre for gas. Lately there has been a lot of talk about price fixing in the local bread industry and how bad that is. Why then is no one talking about how bad price fixing is in the local oil industry. In Canada we do not have a free market in the oil industry. We have a corporate monopoly owned by Communist China.

Some argue that this pipeline isn't for domestic consumption, it's for foreign markets which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Since Communist China now own the monopoly on our oil, local consumers ask, why does China pay less for the oil than we do? That is a valid question. The answer is because Stephen Harper gave that monopoly to Communist China. We should take back that monopoly by Nationalizing our oil the same way Norway did. That would be in everyone's best interest. We can keep all the Canadian contractors. The only difference is that the provincial governments would own the profits from the oil monopoly not Communist China.



Update: Apparently there have been a few oil spills in the current pipeline.

Since it's an underground pipeline, the spill appears to have been from when construction mistakenly ruptured the pipeline.

Male injured in Richmond Shooting

1130 News is reporting that "A 20-year-old man is in hospital after police say he was shot in Richmond last night. Officers arrived to the area of Westminster Highway near Gilbert Road just before 10:30 p.m. where they found the man suffering from gun shot wounds."

"Mounties have secured a location in the area of Lynas Lane near Westminster Highway, not far from where the injured man was found. They are being helped by the Integrated Forensic Identification Services and the Integrated Police Dog Services, but are also looking to speak with witnesses or anyone else who may know something about this incident."

Surrey municipal corruption case was minimized under Dianne Watts

Several people have sent me this article and have expressed concerns about Dianne Watts running for Premier given this kind of corruption existed and was swept under the carpet while she was mayor of Surrey in 2012. All I can say is I told you so. It is just the tip of the iceberg. Campbell heights was the model they keep repeating over and over again.

If you think Dianne Watts isn't corrupt, then you don't know Jack- Jack Saran.

The Vancouver Sun / Province is reporting that "A Surrey municipal corruption scandal was minimized and presented as a one-time bribe taken by a bad apple, even though the city knew other developers were involved and the wrongdoing stretched back years. Jack Saran, who blew the whistle on Akolo after hearing his offers, claims his original concern about the scope of the scam was swept under the carpet and that others involved were not prosecuted."

Surrey developer asks city to open municipal corruption file