The Secrets Of Vancouver BC, Canada

What to do when it all goes wrong…

It started out innocently enough. They asked. The people spoke. Overwhelmingly negative.

So, if you’re the CBC, what do you do?

Add a little bit of “CBC Journalistic license”.

Original story:

My CBC is… : Tell us what the CBC means to you

One of the nicer comments:

It is reassuring to see from the comments and the votes here that I am not the only Canadian who is disgusted by the $1.4 billion annual taxpayer subsidy that is provided to this crown corporation.

I have never felt that this channel represented my views of Canada and what being a Canadian is. It represents politically motivated and manufactured views which often make me feel sick to my stomach and ashamed to be a Canadian.

When you combine the horrible expense and the propaganda elements that consistently and deliberately try to undermine my own noble beliefs, I would wholeheartedly support the sale or dismantling of this entity.

The 6% of Canadians who actually watch this channel on a regular basis should be asked to fork over the annual $1.4 Billion themselves and support their own propaganda and freedom of speech. However, it is grossly unfair that I am being forced to fund their political messages and low quality programming in such a massive way.

There are over 300 comments – 90% negative. Small Dead Animals helped get the conversation going.

The subsequent follow up to get ahead of the anger and try to reshape the conversation, and validating the above comment:

Spotted: Your heartfelt remarks about CBC’s upcoming anniversary

“It has wonderful (radio) morning wake up shows, provocative, thought-provoking afternoon shows, a TV line up that proudly says …”We are Canadian”, as evidenced by sane political broadcasts, HNIC and great investigative journalism. However, my favourite aspect of CBC is the website. It is my homepage and the first place I look for news and sports. As snowbirds and retired, we love the fact that CBC keeps my wife and I firmly rooted in Canada as we travel the southern US for five months in the winter. Do not change a thing…….CBC is Canada….eh?”

We can’t thank you enough for sharing your comments on this particular story. Your feedback has been tremendous, and look forward to reading more of your comments in the coming days!

If you ever needed proof of what an atrocity the CBC has become, this is it. End the bleeding now. Why we are being taxed to the tune of 1 billion plus for this train wreck speaks volumes.

Let’s make the 75th Anniversary their last. Speak up.

Adding Insult to Injury

Or, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Today the chased-from-office BC Premier, Gordon Campbell, was given a gift of a position in the UK… Can’t help wonder how he got this. Maybe there is someone that is benefiting by HST.

The Harper government formally announced his appointment as the new high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland today.

The man who gifted us with carbon tax, then HST, and elected by outright deception, now gets to flee the scene of the crime and get rewarded handsomely. Here’s hoping he gets stationed near an area of unrest.

In much better news today, it’s confirmed that we are finally rid of the Bacon brothers.

August 2005: Jonathan Bacon and two others are charged with 15 counts of drugs and weapons offences after police found a cache of automatic weapons, silencers, a bulletproof vest and a police uniform, as well as marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine and more than $90,000 in cash.

February 2007 – Gangster Jonathan Bacon delivered 114 sticks of stolen dynamite, a grenade, seven handguns, two shotguns, a rifle and an Uzi submachinegun to police as part of a plea bargain for an associate.

June 2008: Provincial court dismisses drug and weapons charges against Jonathan Bacon after agreeing his charter rights were violated.

Nov. 18, 2010: Supreme Court of Canada agrees to hear Jonathan Bacon’s argument that his charter rights were violated when he was charged with the 2005 drugs and weapons offences.

August 2010: The gangster justice system in Kelowna executes Jonathon Bacon…  and saves the courts the work they should have done years ago.

BC is getting better all the time.

How Things Change When You Are The Victim

Vancouver has been especially vocal when it comes to toughening up our court and justice system… ask Stephen Harper.

The belief is that because crime is on a downward trend, we do not need to change anything… forgetting that here in Vancouver we have our own form of justice. Ask the Bacon brothers, or anyone with a family member gunned down in the mob wars.

After game 7 of the Stanly Cup, we discovered the power of Facebook and the web when it comes to catching the rioters. Their acts are clearly on display, captured for all time. The evidence seems overwhelming.

So how many have been charged to date? NONE.

In London, where it is even more lenient, they have charged hundreds so far, and the riot is still going on. Using the same evidence as we have.

There have been more than 1,700 arrests, with some rioters already convicted and serving jail time.

Here in B.C., police have to recommend charges to the Crown, who then reviews the evidence and must decide whether a charge is in the public interest and if there is a substantial likelihood of conviction.

The only two people have been charged have been charged for an assault that took place during the riot: Edgar Ricardo Garcia, 20, has been charged with aggravated assault and will next appear in court Aug. 19; Joshua Lyle Evans, 27, was charged with possession of a dangerous weapon and will appear in court Sept. 27.

Sad day for Canada’s justice system… and Vancouver is doing all to show just how bad it sucks.

photo credit: Mark Donovan Vancouver

Thanks To Vancouver Real Estate Prices, Our Main Export Is Moving South

photo credit: eggrole

Thanks to ridiculously high real estate prices, our growers are looking south for cheaper grow op digs…

“Some VOC [Vietnamese Organized Crime] groups have moved their marijuana grow operations to the United States where the lower cost of real estate (in some regions) allows them to operate a more profitable enterprise and where they can also avoid police/customs detection at the border,” states the RCMP report.

The report, obtained by The Sun through the Access to Information Act, also argues that the “softening of marijuana laws” in some states has made the U.S. a more attractive destination for growers than it once was.

For more than a decade Canada has been home to a multibillion-dollar marijuana-growing industry, the bulk of whose product has been shipped to the U.S. Read more here:

Good news/bad news. Since the Spring 2009, the average single family home price in Vancouver is up 39%, or 1.4% per month of nominal price appreciation.

The average house now costs 11 times average household income, double that of anywhere else in Canada.

I just can’t help but think this may end badly.

Buy gold, or buy a home in Vancouver? what to do?

Obama Blames

A video Obama voters understand from Jamie Foxx.. closing in on 5 million views.

Search the term Obama Blames and you’ll see 1800 results and growing…

Gold has his $1700 and rising, markets getting crushed. And the leader of it all looks for someone to blame. Very presidential. Lord help us.

President Obama Blames You for High Gas Prices
Obama Blames Everything Else For His Failed Policies
President Obama blames Bush
Obama Blames Europe, Japan for US Economic Woes
Obama Blames ATMs for High Unemployment<
Obama Blames Congress For Jobs
OBAMA BLAMES ‘DEMOCRACY’ FOR HIS FAILURES
Obama blames Republicans on debt

On August 2nd, I may have more money than the US Government

July 29th: Apple: $75.876 Billion. U.S. Government: $73.768 Billion. Apple was on the verge of doom 15 years ago. it will take 15 years for the US government to recover from the Obama reign…

July 30th: Microsoft’s Bill Gates’ $56 billion personal worth is currently greater than the amount of cash in the U.S. Treasury.

July 31st: Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, $45 billion net worth passes the US government.

August 1st: Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison $27 billion outdoes the US.

August 2nd: I may join the club… along with everyone else. Thanks Obama.

Happy Canada Day – BC Hikes Taxes As A Gift.

Today marks the day that they burden us with even more outrageously expensive energy prices… as a Canada Day gift to BC residents.

The beloved Carbon Tax goes from the original 2.4 cents/litre of gas to 5.56 cents. It will rise to 7.24 cents per litre next July, as another Canada Day present for us.

The BC government budget forecasts $740 million in carbon tax revenues this year and $950 million next year.

Now they are saying that B.C.’s carbon tax must increase substantially if the province is going to achieve its greenhouse gas reduction targets. A January 2010 report by the Pembina Institute and others suggested a carbon tax rate of $200 per tonne by 2020, about 44.5 cents per litre of gasoline.

“There’s some evidence that it’s starting to work at a relatively low price, but the idea behind a carbon tax is you start at a slow rate and you send a clear signal it’s going to consistently and predictably rise over time,” said Horne.

We are paying around $1.35/litre right now.. which is about $5.15 a US gallon. You’d think that Washington residents spew more carbon than us… but in fact they are benefiting by the high prices in BC. As I drive 15 miles across the border every other week and buy gas for well under $4 a gallon – and fill the car with groceries – the border crossing is 1 hour+ going there and empty coming back into Canada. Taxes and high prices are keeping tourists away. Tourism is/was one of our largest industries.

If you look at Vancouver, with it’s environmentally minded leaders (or enviro-nazis) , they are winning the fight against global warming. June has been more like February and July doesn’t look to get any warmer. We are freezing here.

Great to know that Canada Day starts with what we love best.. more taxes. And, we can celebrate by enjoying the benefits of our global warming efforts.

photo credit: ankakay

Vancouver Riots After Game 7 Loss – Video and Some Pics

On my  way home after Vancouver Canucks’ Stanley Cup game 7 loss… and filmed how the riots began. Actually wasn’t as major as CBC made it out to be. With 100,000 people trying to get out of downtown, things got a little chaotic.

The police reacted very well considering how large the crowd was. They didn’t provoke and acted professionally.

Unfortunately,  things got worse once it was dark, and really turned ugly. we got out before that time.

One website notices: The “anarchists” seem to have come prepared, judging by the number wearing Vancouver jerseys in the vids. It’s also strange that these mysterious outsiders would turn up for a post-game riot in Vancouver but not in Boston, eh?

More photos here. Also, here’s a site to identify the thugs and upload your pics.

Best quote: Washington’s The Atlantic wrote: “In Syria, they riot for freedom. In Pakistan, they riot against U.S. drone strikes. In China, they riot over many things, most recently in Guangdong province for worker’s rights. But in Canada, which is officially ranked as one of the wealthiest and most peaceful nations in the world, they riot over, yes, hockey.”
VPD would like this person’s name:

A professional photographers gallery of the event… closeup and personal with the rioters. Naming these criminals should be easy (yep, he trashed and burned this new BMW):

And finally, a hint of the make up of the source of the rioters:

Before the history is written, let me say just this; before the pepper spray finally weeps out of my eyes, while the tear gas covers me; let me just say a few words while this smile is still smeared across my face.

Tonight the social peace was exploded. How many will say it was just a hockey riot, as if one could say just one thing about the tearing apart of the relations that bind us to command. Just a hockey riot, where tens of thousands moved threw the belly of commerce and took what they desired, smashing what was in their way. Hockey fans, fuckin-eh we are! And we fucked shit up.

… Cars on fire brought us together, seeking the light. The smoke signaled that we were not alone. The edge of alienation cut threw the cop lines and sliced a crevice between all of us against the few of them. The fires grew with our entitlement. Single acts of defiance become the more heroic as one window gave way to another. … Each window leading to another then turned around the corner, where more windows yield to the boots and bats.

We were being blown forward by black smoke. It bellowed threw the frenzy. A car here-and-there smashed and burning. Parking garages bellowing the stuff. We all took it in deep breaths and let out cheers.

Before it is said that this was a jock riot. Drunk white guys. A hockey riot; It should be asked why are some so quick to dispel social war. This was not a politico riot. For the most part it seemed like kids from the peripherals of central Vancouver. If it were a race riot, as a white guy I’d a been strung up. My shade of white-ass was few and far in between.

Creative Theft On The Rise

An unusual crime pattern is sweeping Canada from east to west…

It starts with this theft found in The Star:

GTA man’s home stolen. Really. His entire house.

Then on to Edmonton for another odd crime:

Did you hear the one about the stolen front lawn?

Can Vancouver Canucks Win Game 7?

Vancouver has been thrashed by Boston… but the Bruins, despite being a team that can look like it is in another league,  can’t seem to find a way to win here in Vancouver.

The crime starts with tickets around $1700 for nosebleeds… averages cost of seats in the 100 level from the three outlets at a hefty $4658.

If the Canucks win, they’ve pulled off the theft of the year.

Win or lose, it’s been good for Vancouver.