Thrilla at the Villa 2: Pro Boxing in BC

BC just had it's second professional boxing card at the Villa Casino in Burnaby right beside the Trans Canada freeway. It was a huge success. I must say these Mexican boxers are sure raising the bar for BC boxing. What a welcome addition to the industry. It was hosted by Alliance Boxing Promotions which consists of Daniel Norman and Ray Savard from Savard Boxing Club in Surrey.

The main event was eight rounds with Jose de Jesus “El Changuito” Macias and Isaac “Kin Ban” Mireles both from Mexico. Kin Ban was flawless and El Changuito was tough as nails. Kin Ban kept rocking El Changuito with solid body shots and head shots but El Changuito did not flinch and kept coming back over and over again. He is very tough.

Former Super Middleweight Champion JY Kim from Surrey took on Salvador Zavala from Mexico. Jy Kim was very strong and very competent but Salvador Zavala was flawless. It's impressive to see the technical precision of Mexicano boxing. Kin Ban had a big name in his corner.

Buneet Bisla is a Surrey Kickboxer from Bisla Martial Arts gone pro boxing. Like Josh Jauncey at WKX, the Bislas are a local father and son combination. Buneet was very smooth, very competent and very consistent. We'll be seeing a lot more of him in the future. Surrey pride yo.



Update: I guess I had it backwards. Jose de Jesus Macias won the decision over Isaac Mireles. I'm a bit confused about that. At the end of the fight the announcer said blue won the fight but they raised red's hand. I guess the winner raised the losers hand because he fought so well. From what I saw red was flawless and blue was tough as nails. That's what I saw.

Mobster shot dead in Toronto

The Toronto Sun is reporting that "A man the Sun has learned was an underworld enforcer is the latest victim of the bitter southern Ontario gangland war purging bad blood that goes back decades. Antonio “Scratch” Fiorda, 50, was gunned down in a brazen lunchtime hit near Sherway Gardens on Monday. Toronto Police officers responding to a shooting call at 1750 The Queensway found Fiorda in a parking lot suffering from gunshot wounds. He died in hospital. Sources tell the Toronto Sun that the Maple man was well-known to police. 'Tony was well-known in TOC (Traditional Organized Crime) as Scratch,' the source said. 'He is/was an enforcer for Joe Violi and linked directly to the Calabrian Commisso family.'”

Vancouver fentanyl dealer gets nine years in jail

The Vancouver Sun is reporting that "A man who was convicted of possessing fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking and possessing a loaded firearm has been sentenced to nine years in prison. In June, Warren Brett Oswald, 37, pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver to the drug and firearm offences after an unsuccessful attempt to get the evidence excluded."

He was caught with 1.4 kilograms of meth, 535 grams of cocaine, 428 g of fentanyl and $28,000 as well as a .40 cal handgun. He had a lifetime firearm ban. Oswald has 69 convictions since 1998, including five drug-related convictions and 11 violence-related convictions.

In 2013 the Brandon Sun reported that "A longtime criminal and drug courier who got caught in a car with cocaine vows to stay out of trouble from now on. Warren Brett Oswald said he plans to pursue his education while in prison and to get a job when he gets out. 'I’m going to get out of this criminal lifestyle,' Oswald told Justice John Menzies in Brandon Court of Queen’s Bench." Not. Mandatory treatment should be part of his sentence. That's the Portugal model.

Vancouver expropriates two derelict hotels on the Downtown Eastside for $1 each

The Canadian Press is reporting that "City council has voted to seize control of two derelict hotels in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside after a lawyer for the property owners warned the municipality it is exposing itself to the risk of litigation by expropriating them for $1 each. Mayor Kennedy Stewart described council's unanimous decision on Wednesday to take over the Balmoral and Regent hotels as a historic vote. The expropriation 'is a clear message that we are not afraid to use every tool at our disposal to create new affordable homes,' he said in a statement."

Every tool at our disposal, including theft. Interesting. The Balmoral is a toilet. So is the Regent. I'm all for turning them into social housing. However, stealing them presents a double standard. Obviously the buildings themselves are worthless and have to be destroyed but the property has a huge value. Compare this with how the City bought the Drake hotel from the Hells Angels and paid them $2 million more than it was worth. Organized crime exploiting the disadvantaged.

Calgary-based Houston Oil & Gas ceases operations, leaving almost 1,300 wells needing cleanup

CBC is reporting that "Another Alberta oil and gas company has closed its doors, leaving more than $80 million in estimated costs to cleanup its remaining wells, pipelines and facilities. Calgary-based Houston Oil & Gas told the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) last month that it was ceasing operations and no longer has any employees, according to court documents. Houston entered receivership last week. The company is focused primarily in southeast Alberta and predominantly produces natural gas, according to its web site."

This is a reoccurring problem. Oil companies abandon a well and expect the tax payer to pay for clean up. Old, unproductive oil and gas wells could cost up to $70B to clean up

Alberta Inactive & Orphan Wells

Terminator Dark Fate is Awesome

I just saw Terminator Dark Fate. It is profound. This movie isn't about Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sarah Connor as awesome as they are. It's about the next generation. It is about hope, resilience, sacrifice, fortitude. It's about changing fate by the choices we make. That is what this movie is about . Natalia Reyes is the rising star in this movie. She has the Latino heart.

I am sick and tired of deadbeat, two bit, brainless and soulless movie critics that trash good movies to make themselves feel important. F*ck them. They serve no purpose.

At the gym they occasionally play modern music videos between ads on the TV screens. Most of the new music videos are shallow and meaningless. They are so shallow and meaningless they are stupid as f*ck. I mean really. What has happened to the industry? It has no soul. It has no moral conscience. Ed Sheeran hasn't lost the vision. He even has a little swag so he does.

Another profound movie coming out is Just Mercy. Everything Michael B. Jordan does is rock solid and this movie has heart. It's not just about wrongful convictions. It's about all of us. America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. None of us are perfect. We all need some mercy.

Brother's Keepers

I find the name of an Indo Canadian Gang that sells drugs and kills people for the Hells Angels somewhat ironic. It ties in with the Redd Alert Bible that refers to the Hells Angels as their Brothers and their Keepers. Redd Alert's declaration announces that they work for the Hells Angels and are subservient to them. They refer to the Hells Angels as their Keepers. Their masters so to speak. However the term brother's keeper is actually biblical. As Dr Smythe pointed out it comes from the story of Cain and Able.

Cain and Abel were brothers. Cain murdered his brother Abel. After Cain murdered Abel, God asked him where is your brother Abel? Cain answered and said I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? The term was used by someone who murdered his brother. Christians tend to spin it and say we are all our brother's keepers. We are all responsible for each other. Yet it is somewhat ironic the Hells Angels would use the term because they regularly murder their own brothers.

Interesting to note that this brother's keepers tattoo also seen in gang photos was done at a tattoo studio in Edmonton which is Red and White. In fact Edmonton is where the two suspects who shot Suminder Grewal are from. Cain slew Able. He murdered his own brother.

Doug McCallum: Endgame

CBC has posted an article from an interview they had with Surrey's Mayor Doug McCallum one year after the election. The article admits that throughout the interview Doug McCallum stayed on point. His recurring theme was "We campaigned on that." Indeed he did.

Doug McCallum has kept his word. Others have not. When asked about the three councilors that jumped ship he responded with "Those councillors changed their position on what they campaigned on." That is exactly what they did. They broke their promise.

Doug McCallum and the Safe Surrey Coalition campaigned on the platform of stopping the LRT down 104th and promoting Skytrain over LRT. They also campaigned on getting rid of the RCMP in Surrey and forming a municipal force. Doug McCallum has kept his promise.

When Doug McCallum let Steve Pettigrew join his team I thought oh no, McCallum has been conned. Steve Pettigrew is a complete idiot. Doug McCallum meant well. He wanted to reach out to the Green Community. Only Steve Pettigrew was not it. Steve didn't lead the Hawthorne Park campaign, he sabotaged it. He withheld crucial evidence from Roslyn so the legal challenge wouldn't have standing. He is an eccentric whose first move after the election was to complain about the celebration of Halloween. When Steven Pettigrew Tanked he admitted "You’ve seen council right, it’s usually eight to one, vote after vote after vote after vote.” It's not hard to understand why his attempt to ban Halloween got voted down as did his other cockamany ideas.

Jack Hundial was another concern from the get go. If you are going to get rid of the RCMP, how is a former RCMP officer going to help with that? Sure enough, as soon as he was elected he changed his position on that crucial platform. He broke his promise.

Brenda Locke was the only one of the three that had any previous political experience. She used to be a MLA for Gordon Campbell. She was defeated even before Gordo was. Sometimes no political experience is better than bad political experience. BC has had enough of Campbellism.

Doug Elford is a shining star the biased media is overlooking. We remember what Linda Hepner and Tom Gill were like. The remaining councilors in the Safe Surrey coalition: Dr. Allison Patton, Mandeep Nagra and Laurie Guerra are rock solid.

At first I was neutral on the idea of forming a municipal police force in Surrey. Now I understand how important that has become. The RCMP in the E Division headquarters have lost faith in themselves and have given up on law enforcement. Instead of trying to stop crime they are trying to find ways how to profit from crime. That is inherently evil. In the struggle between good and evil the Surrey RCMP are on the wrong side. They need a change in leadership. Green Justice.

Vancouver's budget hikes property tax, Surrey's budget does not

Todd Stone: The ICBC Fraud continues

The Vancouver Sun is reporting that "The embattled Liberal who used to be responsible for the Insurance Corp. of B.C. says he spent years shooting down goofy reforms pitched by the corporation, and that NDP Attorney General David Eby is a sucker for falling for half-baked changes that have led to skyrocketing premiums for many drivers."

Selling the ICBC dot com domain to a bank in China with the same initials is not a big deal when ICBC could simply use ICBC.ca which it already owns and redirects to icbc.com. However, giving away ICBC assets to Liberal campaign contributors is a concern reminiscent of BC Rail.

The previous Liberal government was trying to give away ICBC buildings to lobbyists and Andrew Wilkinson said that was nonsense. It is nonsense but it did happen. In the video posted on Ravi Kahlon's twitter we can see Todd Stone offering an ICBC building to the Automobile Retailers Association. This is the Liberal corruption that made the New York Times.



Giving away public assets to campaign contributors again. That's what triggered the Greek Financial Crisis. What was public money became private then disappeared.

Let us not forget the root of the ICBC fraud that the NDP is perpetuating with it's skyrocketing rates. ICBC was breaking even. The BC Liberals extracted a $1.3 billion dividend from ICBC to balance Christy Clark's fake fudgeit budget. If there was no dividend, there would be no deficit. Stop the Fraud. Pay back the dividend. It's as simple as that.

US Sovereignty under attack by the WTO

Bloomberg is reporting that "China secured the World Trade Organization’s go-ahead to impose $3.6 billion in sanctions against the U.S., in a case that predates the tariff war between the world’s two largest economies but may add a layer of tension to ongoing talks. The damages awarded, in a document released Friday on the Geneva-based organizations’ website, are the third highest in WTO history. The amount is about half of what was requested by China, which argued that some U.S. anti-dumping rules were illegal." AYFKM?

"The ruling also comes as the U.S. is mounting an assault on the WTO’s dispute resolution system, with the current terms of two of the final three judges on its appellate body due to expire in December and Washington blocking new appointments. The Trump administration is likely to cite the case as an example of what it sees as the overreach of the WTO’S dispute system."

An anti-dumping duty is a protectionist tariff that a domestic government imposes on foreign imports that it believes are priced below fair market value. Dumping is a process where a company exports a product at a price lower than the price it normally charges in its own home market. For protection, many countries impose stiff duties on products they believe are being dumped in their national market, undercutting local businesses and markets.

In the United States, the International Trade Commission (ITC), an independent government agency, imposes anti-dumping duties based upon investigations and recommendations from the Department of Commerce. Duties often exceed 100% of the value of the goods. They come into play when a foreign company is selling an item significantly below the price at which it is being produced. Part of the logic behind anti-dumping duties is to save domestic jobs. F*ck the WTO.

Hey Ho, NAFTA Chapter 11 compensation awards has to go. The elephant is in the room.