Port Metro Vancouver: At the crossroads: Rail and Marine Tankers at the...
Before any Aframax Tankers make their way into the docks at Kinder Morgan's 'Maximize-Me dining area', east of the Second Narrows, there needs to be discussions on the timing of Rail car crossings...
View ArticleTale of Two 'Nancy R' Senators and Larry. Nancy Greene Raine has a Blueprint...
Straw poll here. Why is it so difficult for members of the Senate (Canada) on THEIR websites to be front and centre when it comes to disclosing travel expenses: Flights and Cabs and DatesThe PMO...
View ArticleBC Rail Trial: Dave Basi and Bobby Virk didn't Blog! Senator Mike Duffy does?...
If Dave Basi and Bobby Virk had attacked the Witnesses on their 'websites' during the BC Rail trial would the BC Supreme Court Judges have stepped in and issued a Cease and Desist Order?Did Basi and...
View ArticleMary Polak ducking for cover, puzzeling. Emergency Management BC Strategic...
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Mary Polak in her first acting role as Environment Minister announces that oil and tanker spills from as far south as Roberts Bank, including English Bay, Burrard Inlet, Douglas...
View ArticleWhen Canadian MinisterJames Moore says 80% of bunker Oil is cleaned up, don't...
What is with our Canadian Government Ministers making announcements, not yet confirmed by our military generals, via twitter? Jason 'Jack-Ass' Kenny comes to mind. Now we have our very own MP going...
View ArticleEnglish Bay Spill measured in Litres why not Barrels? 2,700 vs 17 Kinder...
The Canadian Coast Guard has pegged the English Bay spill at 2,700 litres and took three days and counting to remove what you see, not what you'll eat from the forthcoming fishing industry statistics...
View ArticleAmrik Virk Mandate accountability letter: 'The pot calling the kettle black'...
During the BC Rail trial of Dave Basi and Bobby Virk practically all of the 'documents' were scanned therefore no way to do a search for particular words or phrases. May be a trivial complaint, but...
View ArticleA show of FORCE: 36 years ago three Destroyers were dispatched to Howe Sound...
In today's Vancouver Sun (A7) the headline suggests that the oil barons are considering breaking the door down on the moratorium against drilling rigs in local waters for new sources of their...
View ArticleMetro Vancouver Hot Real Estate has buyers lined up around the block, unless,...
That's how it looks. Minister Responsible Amrik Virk, a former RCMP officer, a Superintendent no less, sees nothing wrong, nothing criminal, nothing askew in the optics of taking less from a...
View ArticleFull disclosure on 'surplus lands' sold by BC Liberals should include...
Finance Minister Mike de Jong has promised to have his ministry staff cobble together a full list of 'surplus' land sales to prove that taxpayers weren't hosed on the deals made by the BC Liberals.A...
View ArticleHeli-ski industry's Standards: One helicopter, One landing pad on BC pristine...
If anyone has been wondering why the BC Liberal government is planning a toll free bridge at the top of Upper Arrow Lake Fixed Bridge, in the middle of nowhere, there's a new industry taking flight:For...
View ArticleJordan Bateman's removal of Lions Gate Bridge in 15 years is correct. Third...
Mayor Walton of the District of North Vancouver sees the Lions Gate Bridge demise as being premature. The limitation to Buses and cyclists (pedestrians too) was conditional upon there being a Third...
View ArticleBC Hydro Site C: Energy Minister Bill Bennett's claim of 'shovels in the...
Vaughn Palmer's column in the Vancouver Sun last two paragraphs on the need to get going on Site C before the big freeze:..... Energy Minister Bill Bennett — namely, in light of all the action in the...
View ArticleBritish Columbia was called New Hanover but the map makers called it Hanover...
Weekend Reading for Sailors:Page 19Published in 1914First Circumnavigation Index first page of two: British Columbia? All depends on who got here first and whether or not they got the memo.New...
View ArticleButterfly Lost
The monarch butterfly is the only member of it's subfamily, the Dainainae or “milkweed butterflies” to occur in Canada. Two other species in the group are found in the southern United States and one...
View ArticleKinder Morgan's pipelines Achilles Heel an anomaly: Castor canadensis
Anomaly something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.A couple of busy beavers in Burnaby were able to knock a locomotive off it's track along with railcar hoppers loaded with Coal...
View ArticleFOI non-negotiable: BC Rail Company to keep Environment track reports on CNR...
According to British Columbia Auditor General the public has to trust that BCRC is inspecting their ENTIRE property (tracks/bridges/tunnels/ballast) once every three years or at intervals over a...
View ArticleDid BC Transportation Minister Todd Stone's Grand Father forfeit his 1912...
W. A. Stone 1415 Nelson Street, VancouverPage 28 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1912 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1912Top 50 British Columbia License Plates Motorcycles * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1912Top 46 Kelowna License...
View ArticleCapers? WholeFoods? Recipes for Egg-plant Fritters Curried & Macaroni Stew...
Egg-plant and Pepper Growing in the B.C Dry Belt. (1918)THESE two crops require practically the same treatment, about the only difference being that the egg-plants are not quite as hardy; hence the...
View ArticleKnowledge Network told to toe the line on respect for taxpayer's dollars. And...
Boy oh Boy former Advance Education Minister Amrik Virk sure has stirred up a hornet's nest of marching orders for everyone heading up Public Sector Organizations after his KPU screw up by working...
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