Thoughts on BC Politics and More

  LAST NIGHT (Wednesday Oct 21) on the 6pm TV news out of Vancouver came a story about a mentally unstable individual who had again severely stabbed someone unknown to them – for the second time in just a handful of days.   And the relevance of this some may ask? Well, of course, it happened on the same day that the NDP government of Premier John Horgan announced their much-awaited report on ‘ expert recommendations on repeat offending ’.   Sadly, this report, and it’s recommendations, will do little to stem what has become a plague of street crime by several dozen thugs with rap sheets a mile long – many with 100’s of charges (one alone with 400+ arrests) and VERY LITTLE if any jail time, random assaults on innocent victims on downtown city streets, an epidemic of drugs overdoses and thousands of deaths through a poisoned drug supply, and untold numbers of people suffering from mental health issues who are unable, or unwilling, to care for themselves. ...

A couple of days ago I received an email from Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party of Canada; to say I was not impressed is mild.   Here, word for word, is the content of that email, which of course came with the obligatory request for a donation:     Alan,   You won’t believe this. I couldn’t believe it, and it happened to me.   Today, I was delivering a statement about how Trudeau’s inflation is hurting everyday Canadians when someone started shouting.   First, they hurled obscenities and then started shouting at me.   Was it some left-wing protestor? Maybe it was a Liberal MP or staffer?   No, it was a member of the media.   That’s right. David Akin from Global News was swearing, shouting and heckling. He wasn’t interested in hearing what I had to say, and he certainly wasn’t interested in reporting it in an unbiased way.   This is what we are up against.   It’s not just the Liberals w...