Thoughts on BC Politics and More

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...

  A major project by the City of Kamloops on Highland Road between Valleyview arena and the highway, is now well underway. This project includes the installation of new water and sewer mains, installation of a new sidewalk from the highway to Valleyview Drive, along with repaving at the bottom of Highland up to the arena as well as on Flamingo Road – it’s all much needed work. One so-called improvement, however, just doesn’t make sense and that’s the plan to install traffic signals at the intersection of Highland and Valleyview Drive. While I’m no technical engineer when it comes to road design, as a thirty-year resident of Juniper Ridge, I think I have a fairly good grasp of how well that intersection currently works – and it works just fine, thank you very much. Despite that, the City of Kamloops traffic / engineering department has decided this intersection is in desperate need of a traffic light. According to an individual in the know (let’s call them Bill), the decision date...

This morning in my political email Inbox, came another in what has been hundreds of emails from all of the candidates seeking to become the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and from that, the opportunity to become Prime Minister after the next federal election. This morning’s email was from Leslyn Lewis, who is taking a second shot at it.   In it, she made what I consider to be some pretty wild statements and accusations – including her beginning statement that: ... The United Nations is fuelling a misinformation campaign that they cleverly disguise as a war on conspiracy theories She then continued ... The UN has put out a framework for people to assess and ultimately undermine the legitimate questions that people are asking of their governments by labelling these questions as “conspiracy theories” ... it is a clear agenda to control thought by pitting citizens against each other and to police the thoughts of their neighbours . ... It is textbook gaslighting – a ...