Bombardier bites the dust

Global is reporting on another scam from Bombardier. We really need to stop pouring tax dollars into that perpetual tax fraud. Bombardier is almost as bad as Lockheed Martin. We need to let Boeing take over Bombardier so that black hole can start making some money. Boeing is Good. Bombardier Sucks. Don't get me started on Airbus. Boeing is a better business model.

Bombardier under fire for $32.6M US given to executives while taking government cash

Caisse, Bombardier's largest shareholder has sizable investments in SNC-Lavalin.

Protesters gather outside Bombardier HQ over CEO pay scandal

Bombardier implicated in Brazilian price fixing case

Bribery trial points to higher-ups at Bombardier

Greta Matassa elevates Surrey

I was surprised to see accomplished Jazz vocalist Greta Matassa performing in Surrey today. Seemingly she was at Frankie's Jazz Club in Vancouver on Friday and Saturday night. Today she was at Northwood United Church for their Jazz Vespers.

Gretta is from Seattle and has taught vocal jazz at the Blaine Jazz Festival for years. She's awesome. Now it's called the Drayton Harbor music camp. If you have a kid that wants to learn Jazz, send them there. It is well worth it.

Paragliding off Mount Seymour

I snowshoed up Mount Seymour today and saw three paragliders launch off a ridge just below first Peak. It was pretty awesome. Hike up, glide down. Now that's what I'm talking about.

Legal Pot company acquires Spire Secure Logistics

Spire Secure Logistics has announced that they have just been acquired by Friday Night Inc. a Canadian public company which owns and controls cannabis and hemp-based assets in Las Vegas. The CEO of Spire Secure Logistics is former police officer Andrew Richards.

"Tim Humberstone, a former law enforcement leader and respected expert in Canada’s regulated cannabis sector is joining Spire Secure Logistics, a company specializing in security, intelligence, and compliance. As Chief Strategy Officer, Tim will lead Spire’s growth in Ontario and support clients across Canada with his depth and breadth of specialized knowledge and relationships."

I'm a little bit confused. Andrew Richards is a local rock star. People call him Andy but I get the feeling he prefers to be called Andrew. I don't like some of his friends but Andrew is competent. His pal JD Hawg is a complete sleazebag but I won't get into that. Much.

The reason I'm a bit confused is that this announcement comes right after Kim Bolan wrote that article about Weird Hal Porteous advertising on Facebook to help people get Medicinal grow op licenses. Now I hear vague references claiming Weird Hal is no longer a member in good standing. I am suspicious to say the least. Andrew was Kim's source for her article.

I have no problem with the Hells Angels being involved with legal pot. I never did. I had a problem with them trading all the BC Bud for cocaine in the US and bringing it back to Canada to be sold here as crack. That was my concern. If the Hells Angels want to make money from legal enterprises then feel free. I won't stop them. Cops getting involved with legal pot is a little bit conflicted but hey, it's a free world. So we are led to believe.

Jodie Emory has Tweeted her concerns about cops cashing in on legal pot while she and her husband are still being tormented by them. "Kash Heed, former B.C. solicitor general and former West Vancouver police chief, is a strategic consultant with National Green BioMed, which has applied to grow medicinal marijuana near Mission. The company, which recently gave $1 million to the University of B.C. to to study the therapeutic effects of cannabis, is chaired by Herb Dhaliwal, a former Vancouver MP and federal cabinet minister."

Doug Ford named new leader of Ontario Conservatives

CBC is reporting that "Former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford was named the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader after a turbulent party convention on Saturday, but runner-up Christine Elliott says she won't concede and that there were serious irregularities in the race."

Ontario has lost their mind. Doug Ford is an idiot. His brother Rob was an abusive drunk. The last leader of the Conservative party in Ontario resigned amidst sexual harassment allegations. From there, Doug Ford is a step backwards not forwards. Christine Elliott was the voice of reason - a beacon of light. Doug Ford is a cloud of darkness.

CBC is reporting that "If you're perhaps mildly confused about how the Ontario Progressive Conservatives choose their leaders, take comfort in the fact that you are certainly not alone. The process is relatively complex. It's designed to ensure that a candidate has support throughout the province, rather than in limited geographic areas. That's partly why, despite the fact that Christine Elliott won both the popular vote and also the majority of ridings, the former MPP still lost to the PC's newly elected leader, Doug Ford, by a razor thin margin."

It sounds like the provincial process is a shady version of having to hold second and third ballots without actually holding them. I do not believe that anyone who voted for Caroline Mulroney in the first round chose Doug Ford over Christine Elliott in the second round. That is not believable.

The natural consequence is simple. Had the Ontario Conservatives elected Christine Elliott as their leader I would have voted conservative. Now I will not. It's that simple. Reform Ontario.



We need to separate ourselves from the New Con because it's the same as the Old Con.

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Fatal shooting in Surrey

CBC is reporting that "A man is dead after a shooting in a Surrey residential area Friday night. Surrey RCMP officers were called to a report of shots fired near a home at 137A Street near 67 Avenue around 7 p.m. A man was found suffering from gunshot wounds at the scene. He was taken to hospital, where he later died."

The Surrey Now Leader is reporting that "The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has identified Pardip Brar, 23, as the victim of Friday night’s deadly shooting in Surrey. Brar, a Delta resident, was known to police. There was a shooting in the same area in mid-February."



Shots fired in Newton Sunday morning.

The Green way up: From Australia to Norway

Speaking of Australians and Netflix, I just found a very interesting series on Netflix called The Green way up. It's about a group of Australians that go on a trek from Australia to Norway all on homemade biodeisel. These are really good guys and they have a really good idea. Like I said, Aussies are rugged and fun. I've never met an Aussie I didn't like.

I'm not exactly sure what biodeisel is but if Alberta can export toxic tar sands bitumen and petroleum coke why can't Surrey produce biodeisel? This is something we need to look at. With all the deep fryers in North America there is no reason we can't turn all that waste oil into biodiesel. Right now it just goes in the garbage.

Within Surrey and Vancovuer's recycling program they collect food scraps as well as paper and plastic. At first we all thought the food scraps was just for composting. Not so. They turn that food scrap into fuel. Global is reporting on a new bio-fuel facility in Surrey.

Update: This series is awesome. I wish I knew about it when it was happening. We could of set up a Gofund me page for them. However, it appears that season two hasn't happened yet. Season one was a trip across Australia without filling up at a single petrol station. Season two is no doubt going to be even more challenging because they'll be picking up used cooking oil from restaurants in foreign countries with a different language.

Unfortunately I'm not sure if season two is still on the table. The domain name has expired and there hasn't been any activity on their twitter or Facebook for a few years. Nevertheless, I highly recommend the series. It's a great idea and they are a bunch of great guys.

One of the young guys related the challenges they were having with their primary vehicle to going on a bad date with a girl who complains the whole night then doesn't offer to pay for her food. Dude, if you take a girl out for dinner you can't make her pay. If she offers to pay you can't let her. That's just not right. Are we not men or are we DEVO? Don't support the Devolution of the species. It's not a matter of being pussy whipped it's a matter having having a little self respect.

Apparently here in Metro Vancouver you're not supposed to put used cooking oil in the dump. They have a separate collection facility to put it. There is even a biodesiel company here in the lower mainland now. I had no idea. This is good. Onward and upward.

US Police scam Vancouver company that sells encrypted BlackBerrys

Kim Bolan has exposed another police scam. She reports that "The owner of a Vancouver company that sells encrypted BlackBerrys popular with B.C. gangsters is facing charges in the U.S. of racketeering, conspiracy and drug trafficking. Vincent Ramos, who started Phantom Secure in 2008, is even alleged in U.S. court documents to have sold his specialized devices to “some members of the (Mexican) Sinaloa (drug) cartel.” Ramos, 41, was arrested in the U.S. on Wednesday, as police in Metro Vancouver raided his business and home."

Only he's not being charged in Canada he's being charged in the US. "The U.S. alleges Ramos, Phantom Secure and others whose names are blacked out engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity involving gambling, money laundering and drug trafficking. And Ramos is also alleged to have knowingly and intentionally conspired with other persons to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine.” Only they are referring to a sting operation which constitutes entrapment.

The police posed as drug dealers and asked him Is this system secure? He said yes. They said can you wipe our blackberries clean? He said yes. He was not involved with any drug trafficking at all. That's like arresting all Internet providers because someone who used their service was looking at child porn or selling drugs online. The ISP is not liable for what customers do.

US police coming into Canada to search his home and business. That crosses the line. They'll search him but they won't search Shakerz. That means their motives are suspect.

Obviously I don't support drug trafficking yet I don't support US police taking someone from Canada and trying them in a US court on bogus charges they made up. Edward Snowden is in hiding because he exposed the fact that the NSA were breaking the law and lied to congress. The fact that they want to throw him in jail and not charge the NSA is evidence of just how screwed up the US is right now and how far they have deviated from their scared constitution.

The US authorities like to spy on everyone. They don't like it when anyone creates a method of encryption that they can't access. Normally when they reroute a cell phone with their Stingray antennas they can access encrypted messages. Perhaps they are unable to hack this system.

After Operation Fast and Furious where the CIA and the ATF were selling the Mexican cartel guns and bringing back tons of cocaine into the United States as payment it is pretty obvious that the US authorities are not concerned with disrupting drug trafficking. They are only concerned with eliminated drug dealing rivals and betraying those that worked for them.

Since the RCMP is watching the drug trafficking out of Shakerz supplying the Surrey strip with Fentanyl it is obvious that they are not concerned with disrupting drug trafficking either. They just want to be able to seize the proceeds of crime for letting it flourish.

This news release once again perpetuates the police propaganda pretending to use tax dollars to stop organized crime when they are in reality doing the exact opposite. They are promoting organized crime while they kill the constitution and civl liberty in the process.

Trudeau appoints Brenda Lucki to lead challenge-plagued RCMP

It comes as no surprise that Justin Trudeau has appointed a woman to help cover up or move past the generations of sexual harassment at the RCMP. It's probably a good thing. That is one problem that desperately needs to be fixed. However, there is another problem that has yet to be addressed - organized crime.

The Huffington Post is reporting that "The force has continued to face embarrassing revelations about sexism and sexual misconduct in RCMP ranks, even one year after commissioner Bob Paulson apologized for discrimination against female officers and agreed to a $100-million settlement of two class-action lawsuits."

In BC we are well familiar with the magnitude of sexual misconduct within the RCMP. The Friends of Craig Callen (FOCCers) as they were known locally kept getting promoted amidst continued allegations of sexual misconduct. Bill Fordy wasn't corrupt. He was just an idiot that cared more about getting laid than he did about doing his job. Bob Paulson, Bill Fordy and Craig Callen went on a "fishing trip" at a resort on Pitt Lake and they didn't bring their wives.

Bob Paulson worked on the Pickton case. He was in charge of the witness protection of Dianne Rock. Unfortunately he was too preoccupied with his partner to believe Dianne Rock's claim of being gang raped on the Pickton farm by bikers and cops so she left protective custody and ended up dead. The Catherine Galliford case was settled out of court along with a gag order.

In Bob Paulson's exit interview he admitted that during his tenure as RCMP Commissioner he took every officer in charge of investigating organized crime off of organized crime and put them on the bogus terrorist creation unit that loses billions of tax dollars from it's budget every year to bribe and threaten former drug addicts into performing terrorist attacks.

Since it is clear that the RCMP refuse to investigate organize crime, it is time we gave that jurisdiction to someone who will. The only difference between BC and Quebec when it comes to corruption is that Quebec has a task force that investigates organized crime while BC does not.

Wreck Trek on Netflix

I just powered through a TV series on Netflix called Wreck Trek. It only had a two out of five star rating and I had to fast forward through all the toxic drama but the original quest was somewhat interesting. Six people bought three junker cars from the scrap yard and drove them all the way from Berlin to Capetown, South Africa.

I was somewhat shocked and disappointed they threw Lucy under the bus in the last episode. Lucy was rock solid the entire trip. Throwing her under the bus like that was uncalled for.

Lucy was from Sydney. Australians are rugged and fun to be around. I have never met an Australian that I did not like. The mission was spearheaded by an American named John Lovejoy. He obviously had skills for putting the whole thing together but his unrealistic expectations and unending critical comments became toxic.

At one point Lovie said the Australian accent sounded like rednecks and it may have offended Lucy. Ya just got to remember that sometimes the Americans talk sh*t and they don't really mean it. They're just joking. White Americans sound like rednecks not Australians. Everyone loves the Australian accent. When I was in New York I had a long goatee and one of the guys called me Colonel Sanders. I just looked and him and the guy's looked at me and I knew I had to do something or that name would stick and they would eat me for breakfast. The guy's street name was Dragon. I really liked him. Every time he called me Colonel Sanders I called him lizard instead of dragon. He stopped calling me Colonel Sanders pretty quick after that.

The British do it too. They like to take the piss out of people which means mock them. It's just sarcasm. It was however, sad to see everyone trash Susan all the time. Susan is a wonderful person. Everyone kept saying Susan is stupid and Susan is a bad driver over and over again. It was just plain toxic. Lovie was the most vocal about Susan's driving. Yet he crashed his car twice and Susan did not. Susan helped keep everything together.

Both of the girls were absolutely rugged. They made it all the way through the Congo on those dusty roads with a broken window. Dust was everywhere inside the cars and all over them. They were both rock solid rugged. You have to give credit where credit is due. Negative reinforcement just isn't healthy. You can disagree with someone or confront evil but trashing them just for the sake of trashing them is toxic. You don't feel good about yourself so you have to cut someone else down? You can never build a healthy self image by tearing down others.

Jonathan was from England. He was a good bloke so he was. The fact that the could speak French was a huge asset. It looked like Lovie was a bit jealous of his ability to speak French and kept complaining that he should just shut up when talking to locals. Yet having him in some of the French speaking countries they went through after he left would have been a big help. When you are driving through the middle of nowhere and start speaking English to random people expecting them to know English is a bit rude and unrealistic.

Rob was a really good guy too. It was sad that after one of the cars died the series became kind of an episode from survivor where two people had to be cut. That just fostered the negative criticism. Tony was the resourceful mechanic. He admitted near the end while he was complaining about Susan that it was like having to put up with your girlfriend without getting any. It's pretty obvious Tony and Lovie were wanting to get laid. Lovie was choked Lucy kept talking to her boyfriend on the phone near the end. She missed her boyfriend. That's pretty normal.

Sharing a room with an attractive young women without getting any is enough to drive any normal man insane. Next time take your girlfriend so you can relax and have fun without being so obsessed with a crazy timetable. When I do my trek across Canada and the US on my motorcycle it's going to be leisurely and I'm going to take lots of pictures. That's why I'm going alone. No drama. Just enjoying the beauty of nature and the Zen of the moment.