The Kootenay Star's Last Post March 31, 1894 Obit. Sun Media's too soon to call?

Burt R. Campbell 

 

The final issue of The Kootenay Star, which had been published at Revelstoke since the summer of 1889, appeared on March 31, 1894, and contained the following (Page 4 of 134) poetic obituary:

THE STAR’S FAREWELL BY “THE DEVIL”

I am leaving with the snow; I am going “out of sight“;
My twinklings you will never see again;
I am very glad to quit this uncongenial sphere
On which my bright effulgence shone in vain.

‘Twas difficult to please more than one or two each week,
For each reader had an idea of his own
On every topic ‘neath the sun, how a paper should be run,
And scrupled not to let the same be known.

I’ve been criticized and cuss’d; I’ve been victimized and wuss—
I’ve been starved and neglected and unloved.
Without a dollar or a cent, all my debts paid but the rent,
In the journalistic boneyard I am shoved.

This is my last farewell; but I’m not going to h___,
As some of my dear friends have wished of yore,
So I’ll bid you all adieu; I’ll just leave you “in the stew!”
As a Star I’ll never twinkle any more

I am nothing loth to go, to give the Mail a show;
But I wish to make this sole and last request—
Vouchsafe to my successor what you would not give to me—
A living—in this wild and woolly west.


This somewhat graceful bow of retirement announced the commencement  of The Kootenay Mail, which entered the field on April 14, 1894, as a four-page home-print product.

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Sun Media

December 8th, 2013

'Cost containment' continues at parent company Quebecor Media

BC's Prohibition Act didn't pass muster in 1917; Women's Sufferage vote did, on April 5th, 1917

1917, World War One was in full swing, all the able young men, all the able young women (nurses) were overseas when along came British Columbia's Premier Harlan Cary Brewster (Liberal, November 23, 1916 - March 1, 1918 with his Prohibition Act (which failed to pass muster), a By-Election and Women's Right to vote (passed), approved by ..... men.  The Prohibition Vote results were not what the BC Government expected; the disappointed Premier appointed a Royal Commission to go to France to discover if the votes cast were valid.   SCANDAL

Liberal leader Harlan C. Brewster, who was in favour of both prohibition and ending patronage in government, won the election.  The electorate voted 51 892 for and 24 606 against women’s suffrage, rewarding women for the work they had done on the home front during the war.   Prohibition was defeated, however, because of the votes of B.C. soldiers overseas. Brewster commissioned an inquiry, which revealed massive electoral fraud, particularly by officers in the army, and cast suspicion on McBride who, as the new Agent-General in London, had overseen the voting process.   Over half of the soldiers’ votes were disallowed, and Prohibition came into effect. - A City Goes to War

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2013 Questions: Was it only Canadian soldiers voting more than once in such an unscrupulous manner on their sure to be death beds?  or Officers final manipulations?  One last defiant  gesture?  The Finger salute?   A message dispatched to the safe and secure politicians in BC and Canada?   A new beginning, after leaving the battlefield horrors behind, a dream of clearing trees and stumps, to till the land to produce Raspberry and Strawberry crops in the first years back.  A means of not drinking away the memories of a war that took away friends,    and lost limbs.

Was the Overseas Votes tainted by the sergeants who collected the dog tags,  and saw an opportunity, an "escape route" once the Great War was over?

Were Overseas voting results typical of other nations' soldiers on the fields of France?  To have their votes contested, then smeared, by politicians?


Royal Commissions  1870  to  1979    Go for 1917 (Seven all told)(busy year for Corruption)


Notable acts during the Great War:

1916	Life of Legislative Assembly extended to 5 years (SBC 1916 c.14). Clergy no longer prohibited from running and sitting as MLAs (SBC 1916 c.14).
1917	Franchise extended to women (SBC 1917 c.23).
1918	First woman to run (and be elected) – Mary Ellen Smith – in Vancouver by-election held 24 January 1918. First time women voted in provincial election.

Categories of Citizens Ineligible to Vote, 1867–1885 (Women not mentioned)(Ineligible)

British Columbia   

Any person of Indian origin.
Any immigrant of Chinese origin.
Any person holding one of the following positions:
    employee of the customs department
    employee of the federal government responsible for collecting excise duties
    judge of the Supreme Court or a county court
    stipendiary magistrate
    police constable or police officer
Any employee of the federal government paid an annual salary (except postal employees).
Any employee of the provincial government paid an annual salary.
Any teacher paid by the government of the province.
Any person previously found guilty of treason, serious crimes or other offences, unless he had been pardoned or served his sentence.

 British Columbia approved women's suffrage on 5 April 1917

Prohibition

Alcohol was prohibited in British Columbia for about four years, from 1917 to 1921. A referendum in 1916 asked BC citizens whether they approved of making alcohol illegal (the other question was whether women had the right to vote). The contested results rejecting prohibition led to a major political scandal that subsequently saw the referendum being overturned and alcohol prohibited.  - Wikipedia  

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1917 Royal Commission Report on Overseas Vote BC Prohibition Act

One overlying fact, soldiers were led to believe that they were voting on TWO items.  Prohibition and a By-Election.    Women's right to vote, not mentioned in the Report.

Ancestry buffs might be interested in this Royal Commission because it lists off "dog tags",  names, place of birth, home town (residence) places, Battalions, and places of recuperation (in England). 

Prohibition Party Scrutineer Evidence:  Mr. W. D. Baley, the agent acting on behalf of the Party, noted that the presiding Officers ignored Clause 3 of the Order in Council of 24th August, 1916 to take the vote in certain parts of England and France:

All scrutineers and deputy scrutineers present at the time any poll is closed and the receptacles prepared to be forwarded to the Deputy Provincial Secretary or Agent-General , as the case may be, shall be allowed to place their own private seals upon the receptacles, in addition to the seal of the Presiding Officer or Deputy President Officer.

Receptacles? Sealed Ballot Boxes,  unheard of on the War Front, envelops were the norm.

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BC Legislature Report:

Your Commissioners arrived at London on the 12th day of June, 1917, and after publication of a notice of their first meeting in three Issues of the London 1'jmes newspaper, pursuant to subsection (2) of section 6 of the said Act, your Commissioners held their first session at British Columbia House, Nos. 1 and 2, Regent Street; London, on Monday, the 18th day of June, 1917.

  .... card-indexes were sorted out in alphabetical order, It became apparent that many soldiers had voted, or were were made to appear as having voted, two, three, or four times, and these duplicate, triplicate, and quadruplicate votes were made the subject of special investigations by Mr. Helmore. "Certain cards out of those prepared by Mr. Helmore were selected by your Commissioners for comparison with the original military records, and these cards were in every case found to bear out the conclusions arrived at by Mr. Helmore.  The evidence taken at the Military Records Office will be found in the stenographer's report of the fourth day's proceedings of the Commission.   For convenience, however, we refer to one or two examples of what appeared to be fraudulent voting.

William Brillat, No. 155063;  Brillat is supposed to have voted at the Crowborough on the 22nd of December, 1916, whereas the military records show that Brillat deserted on the 16th of September.

 Oscar Ewart Hawes, No. 487388 was killed in action on the 8th October, 1916


Arthur Bacon, No. 429173; the military record showed No. 429173 to belong to Albert Alfred Bacon.   In the one case the residence of A. A. Bacon is given at Vancouver and that of Arthur Bacon at Victoria.   Captain Sellon produced the military record of Albert Alfred Bacon, No. 429173, which showed that this man went to France on February 3rd, 1916.

Alfred John Knight; it appears that four votes had been cast in this man's name, and in each case the number is given as 707244; the records show Alfred John Knight, No. 707245, 103rd Battalion;  In each case the votes were cast at Epsom Convalescent Hospital, three times under the name of Lonorgan, Presiding Officer , and once under the name of H. A. Douglas as Presiding Officer.  The correct number of Alfred John Knight was 707245

Witnesses:

Pte. Carl Henry, No. 154254, Canadian Army Medical Corps (C.A.M.C.)

He stated his residence to be Vancouver, B.C., and that he had voted twice.  He understood one was an election and one was a by-election.  He was not positive whether he had voted on Prohibition the first time but was definite  as to voting on Prohibition the second time, at what he believed to be a by-election.

Pte. Leith Gordon; No. 22058, of Winnipeg, Manitoba

Sergt.-Major George Parker Cruikshank, No. 54014,

Sergt. John Beauchamp Daly, No. 432441,

Pte. Cecil Everard William Reginald Durden, No. 147890; 78th Battalion, Winnipeg,

Sergt. Lee Bernard Cogan, No. 6B16, stated that his residence was Detroit, Michigan

Pte, Edgar Field, 8th Battalion, No. 45, gave his residence as Winnipeg, Man

Sergt. Cecil A. Hamilton, No. 13106, 5th Battalion, gave his residence as Saskatchewan

Corporal  Frank Taylor Harrop, No, 108274, No. 1146,Yuill Street, Medicine Hat, Manitoba

Pte. Vivian Potter, Battleford, Saskatchewan

Sergt. William Henry Bradley, No. 13081, 5th Battalion

Corporal Ralph Percy, Biggs, No. ,12968, 5th Battalion

Pte. Samuel Egginton Hodgkins, No. 464666, Manitoba Hotel, Yates, Street, Victoria

Major Pringle, Senior Chaplin at Shoreham Camp

Corporal William Harrison Welsh, No. 703426, l02nd Battalion, Vancouver, B.C.  He left  Irmstone  Hospital at Eastbourne on the 30th day of December, 1916

Lance-Corporal' James Owen, No. 75543, 29th Battalion; residence Mount Lehman, BC

Pte. Henry Ashdown, No. 706108, 103rd Battalion, residence 950 North Park Street, Victoria

Corporal Harold J. Cowherd, No. 706880, 103rd Battalion, residence Victoria

Pte. Arthur Leadbetter, No. 706995, 103rd Battalion, 1211 Pembroke Street, Victoria

Lieut. Alexander Duncan McRae, Of the 27th Battalion, France  acted as scrutineer at Sheffield, Buxton, and Manchester in November and December, 1916, at polls....

Sergt. H. A. Douglas at the various hospitals in the northern half of England, including Sheffield
and Buxton, contained no ballots marked in favour of Prohibition.

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 "Had She oones Wett Hyr Whystyll She couth Syng full clere Hyr pater noster."

Power in British Columbia - Not Political Power... but really it was Political - BC Hydro - 1961

Hugh Keenleyside  Chairman BC Power Commission December 15, 1961

We can well understand why there's a Keenleyside Dam, damn.  His promise was supposed to be good until 2111!  not 2013.

Keenleyside Speech (to the faithful):

Nanaimo is the largest city served by the B. C. Power Commission.    During the years that you have been our customers you and the people of Vernon, Kamloops and Prince George have been charged rates that have made it possible for us to serve thousands of other people in outlying communities throughout British Columbia, people who would otherwise have had to go with out the blessings of electric light and power.   For what you have done, we in the Commission, and the people you have helped, are deeply grateful.

However 

In spite of the contribution you have been making to the general welfare of the Provine it is only fair to point out that you have nevertheless paid lower rates for our service than the people of Victoria and Vancouver have paid to the B. C. Electric.   Now that a realignment of territories is to take place and both the B. C. Hydro and the B. C. Electric are publicly-owned, the cost of paying for the service to the outlying regions is going to be shared by the two agencies.   Victoria and Vancouver will be expected to bear their fair share.

And the other shoe is un-laced

In spite of this we are planning, with Government approval, to reduce rates to all our customers whether in the large cities, the towns, or the country districts.  And in discussing this matter with the Premier he strongly agreed that I should tell you that the people of Nanaimo, Vernon, Kamloops and Prince George would have their full share of any reduction;  that no one in Vancouver or Victoria or elsewhere in either the Hydro or the B.C. Electric systems will have lower rates than those to be paid by you who have contributed so much to the development of electrical services in our Province.

THUD

In the light of what I have just said about the place Nanaimo holds in our affection you will understand why, after two years and a half during which I have made no public speeches on the power problems of B. C., I decided that my first address on this subject should be given here.  I am grateful to you for providing the opportunity. 

CRUNCH

The Purpose of this Address

That certain aspects of the power situation in British Columbia are subjects of controversy is a notable understatement.  This is not surprising in view of the complexity of the problems involved, the variety of interests affected, and the magnitude of the issues themselves.   In addition to our elected representative, by whom the final decisions must be taken, the problems we face require for their solution the talents of scientists, engineers, economists, administrators, off-shore Bermuda offices, and sociologists; of industry, labour, commerce and law.  The power policies adopted now, or that will be adopted within the next few months, will affect everyone now living in our Province and everyone who will live here during the next century and a half.

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1961 + 100 yrs =  2061               2061 + 50 yrs = 2111

2111 - 2013  =  98 yrs..... to go ... Bill Bennett

No problemo.    LNG will have wiped out our debt by 2050.   And We'll have a Prosperity Fund for fun.   .... Christy Clark

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In the case of nuclear plants the fuel costs are relatively low, on a long-term basis, and may become lower still. Improved techniques of utilization are also forecast and it is now generally accepted that within two decades the cost of nuclear energy may become so low as to make new hydro plants generally uneconomic.

If this is true the importance of the earliest possible development of all our hydro potential in British Columbia becomes vividly apparent. In hydro installations, of course there is no expenditure on fuel; in fact 3 practically all the costs of a hydro plant are those related to the annual fixed charges on the initial capital used in construction. Once in and even partially paid for hydro plants could not be superseded by nuclear energy regardless of the declining costs of the latter. We should, therefore, develop the hydro resources of our Province as rapidly as markets can be clearly anticipated, for by so doing the costs of hydro power will be kept reasonably constant over the useful life of the projects - about 100 to 150 years. To the extent that we fail to do this British Columbia's second most  important resource will be lost for all time.

BC "Borrowing Activity" Eye Test, a perfect 20/12 and 20/13?

Ever wonder,
 if the BC Finance Minister(s),
  ever thinks/thought,
   about using,
     BC Lottery's,
       discarded,
         Billion Dollar,
           Wheel of  Fortune,
             & Roulette,
              Spin .....colour   .....technology,
               to explain,
                the benefits of,
                 pie charts?

BC Lottery Wheel of Fortune

How to play the Game:

Ignore the "Bankrupt" (white on black) sign.  NOT a Winner

Ignore the "TURN" (black on green).   You want MONEY

Look for the highest dollar amount and take note of it's unique background colour.

You want    Beige  =  4000

Look for the lowest dollar value  and take note of the background colour.

You don't want      Orange/ Purple/Turquoise/Red/Green = 1000

Whoops! 

1000 (Orange) shares the same background colour with 2750;   you could get lucky, doubtful

2000 and 3250 same background colour.

This is getting confusing!

To keep everyone on a level playing field, this next part is important.  It is illegal, anywhere in the world, to bait and switch the background colours once the Spin (doctoring) begins.    The highest winning number with it's certified background colour can not be shifted by any means, electronic or otherwise, onto a different colour background which started out at the lowest amount that could be won, other than Bankrupt or Turn.   It's all about chance, isn't it.  The "game" may appear, for all intents and purposes, easy, by using unique colours to keep track of financial information from one Spin to the Next.  ...... year.

The BC Liberals GCPE officers for the Finance Ministry, late of the BC Lottery Corp, and BC Government Caucus office, have started using the discarded Wheel of Fortune for the Government's pie chart displays.

This all makes perfect sense to us.  or as Spock would say... LOGICAL

The GCPE officers may not have intended to use the Wheel of Fortune for their Pie Charts, it just might be that one or two, or more, suffer from Colour Blindness!

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Here's two different, but consecutive years of Borrowing Activities, March 31, 2012 and September 30, 2013, the same time frame as the Ten Billion Debt Post.

The Wheel of Fortune... .. these two Pie Charts, 2012 and 2013, appear to use the same colours for each unique Long Term Borrowing by Terms in yrs, but in fact, 1  -  3 yrs have been deleted from 2012 as the lowest Term, while the Spin is happening between the two years to then converting the 4 - 7 yrs category to take over the background colour of the  1  -  3 yrs category that's gone.  The second graph of each year is Long Term Borrowing by Market.  Pac Man style .....   Adds a bit of colour, changes a little colour, delete colours.....  We can hardly wait for 2014 Eye Test!

March 31, 2012

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September 30, 2013

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How about looking at them side by side?

The background colours are still wrong.

2012 to the Left                       to the Right 2013

BCR Properties aren't listed "For Sale" in Annual Finance statements to Stone-wall-Todd.

Before rookie Minister of Education Fassbender implements his latest edict, shuttering schools because of low capacity, and mounting Hydro bills, perhaps he should bend the ear of a fellow rookie, Transportation Minister Stone who has proven he knows how to skirt issues on behalf of BC Ferries Executives.  His CEO, Corrigan, was able to justify to the Minister that free-tickets-to-ride on the Fleet in no way compromises the bottom line for the bankrupt system... because the ships are going to their destinations, and back to their home berth, anyway......

"Because we sail at 50 percent capacity, there is really no cost to BC Ferries."  Corrigan

Using zest to cover their mistakes in finances, the BC Liberals are selling off land near the BC Legislature so as to create the image of a real Balance Budget for the first time in four years.  They would  best set aside enough money ($200 million), to fix the sagging, leaking, roof of a building that they attend to for 29 days in a year.  The Legislative Precinct may be running at 1% capacity, but .... to quote Stone's CEO Corrigan   ..... there is really no cost to BC.

There is though, these GREAT quotes from the WayBackMachine on the Fraser Institute's advice to the BC Liberals in early 2001. 

Specific legislation needs to be enacted to ensure that one-time asset
sales are not used to help balance the government's accounts or
undertake new spending initiatives.

&

Harmonize the Provincial Sales Tax with the GST

&

Rescind announced increases to the minimum wage and ensure that minimum wages maintain an appropriate relationship with per capita GDP.

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Another domain that the Transportation Minister rides herd over is......

BCR Properties.   BCR P, a subsidiary of BC Railway, is playing with what appears to be a "shaved" deck of cards, they're cheating on the Financial statements in their Annual reports to the Government, or, perhaps the BC Liberal has shown BC Railway how to cheat on their Financial Statements to the Public, after all, the politicians are the experts on "Balanced Budgeting".

If, ...... if it wasn't for the interfering, curiousity seeking, Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm looking for answers on the "Why?" to a Constituent(s) concerns, we would have never heard or known about Fort St. John.  We did, and we looked closer and found this:


Background

BCR Properties Ltd. was originally created as an internal department of BC Rail Ltd. to acquire and manage land for railway operating purposes and for use by railway shippers. As the railway grew the real estate operation evolved to have a significant property management and administration function including administration of regulatory compliance on behalf of the railway.

On July 14, 2004 the Provincial Government entered into a long-term partnership for the BC Rail operation with CN Railway Company. As a result, the BCR Properties mandate was changed. The current mandate is to effectively and efficiently dispose of the non-railway related real estate owned by BCR Properties and the British Columbia Railway Company. The strategy is to sell commercial properties at market value through competitive processes. See "Property Search" page.

When BCR Properties say that they are "to effectively and efficiently dispose of Non-Railway related Real Estate" why is it that they are STILL trying to sell off Railway related real estate, owned by the British Columbia Railway Company, through a third party?



Fort St. John has prime real estate complete with railway sidings, and in another instance, a fully functional grain elevator with a five year lease.  No one wants to buy into the deals.  Must be the taint of lawsuits like in Prince George where BCR Properties didn't properly inform a prospective purchaser, so they claimed.   Laila Yuile, has the story (2009) covered regarding an undisclosed  Environmental issue, not proven in Court, that needed to be dealt with.   It's still before the Courts.  Willow Cale Industrial Park??????

Do your remember the name of the Premier who promised British Columbians that we would OWN the Right-of-Way, the Rail beds?   How is has BCR Properties managed to skirt those "God" Given rights?   How does the BC Liberal government manage to separate the rail beds that CN Rail is using from the former rail related property that is posted FOR Sale?   The answer is mere metres.  100 metres to be exact.  If a siding, or other such entity once used by BC Railway is distanced 100 metres from a "continuous line" it's no longer a Right-of-Way.

Honest to "God"!  It's the law, written by the BC Liberals so they COULD sell our rail beds, "legally".

Going back to the Pat Pimm problem.... why has the City of Fort St. John endorsed proposal that would remove a working farm from the ALR when BCR Properties have the perfect property?

BCR Properties:  Property Listings (Non-railway related)

» Industrial Site from 1.98 - 4.01 Acres, Dawson Creek, BC
» Willow Cale Industrial Park , Prince George, BC
» High Exposure Retail/Office , Squamish, BC
» Manufacturing Warehouse Buildings  , Squamish, BC


Dawson Creek, Prince George, Squamish and Squamish (non-railway related)

Fort St. John's Railway related property is being handled by ReMax FOR BCR Properties!

How many unlisted property does  BCR Properties have that the Public can't see on the books but are listed with Real Estate agents with REAL signs:  For Sale?

eg.   BCR Properties Fort St. John Lona Hirtz BCP39567
 

$205,000

 LOT 25 Elevator Road PLAN BCP39567 SE Fort St John - RE/MAX ...
www.remaxaction.ca/viewlisting/142‎
LOT 25 Elevator Road PLAN BCP39567, Fort St. John ... 1.159 ACRES HEAVY INDUSTRIAL LAND OWNED BY BCR PROPERTIES, LEASED TO ...

 1.159 ACRES HEAVY INDUSTRIAL LAND OWNED BY BCR PROPERTIES, LEASED TO VITERRA INC FOR 5 YR TERM WITH OPTION THIRTEEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FORTY DOLLARS PER YR, LEASE #5853 EXPIRES MARCH 31, 2014. GRAIN ELEVATOR ON PROPERTY

MLS® 4503628
Area SE Fort St John
Land Size  1.159 acres
Zone M2
Year Built  0000
Legal One LOT 25 S33 T83 R18 W6M BCP39567
Service City water at lot line, Sewer storm, Sanitary sewer, Paved streets, Electricity at lot line
Site Influence Visual Exposure, Rail/Trackage, No Fence, Level Land, Cleared, Airport Nearby

Plan's View

* Above information is from sources believed to be reliable, but should not be relied upon without verification.
RE/MAX Action Realty assumes no responsibility for its accuracy.

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BCR Properties Commerical

Lot 3, Fort St. John

$1,100,000

7.141 acres heavy industrial lot in BCR Subdvision. Storm & sanitary sewer, water to lot line, paved streets, street lights, hydro, natural gas available. A good gravel base on this lot. Schedule B-Enviromental Release and Indemnity Agreement and The Contract of Purchase and Sale Addendum to form part of Contract of Purchase and Sale

Question: Why does BC Railway Company have this expense:  SDM Realty Advisors Ltd. in trust  $475,846.02

Ten Billion dollars in Debt in ONE year and still the majority of British Columbians voted for Christy: Graphs

The worst is yet to come.   BC Energy Minister, Core Reviewer, Bill Bennett has not given British Columbians the true goods on our future debt because he and his lying cohorts continue to use creative bookkeeping to stage Balance Budgets, which they aren't.

The 2013 silent ballot box majority are IDIOTS!  Have been IDIOTS for the past twelve years.  Idiots because they failed to seek out this graph on our Blog on September 12, 2012

The graphs?  They only tell half of the problem.   It's the numbers, bottom line, bottom of this page, that shows the data behind the graphs.  A Ten Billion Debt over ONE YEAR.

March 2006    $27,652.0
Six years ... 2006 to 2012 ...Nine Billion

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March 31, 2012   $36,317.9

In one year   2012 to 2013  Ten Billion

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On October 18, 2013 this was released:

 September 30, 2013  $46,881.3
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The file is overwritten every year - no smoking gun, unless it's saved off-site
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Bill Bennett is painting a rosy picture, well not this morning with his announcement regarding BC Hydro's financial needs.  Or maybe it would be more appropriate to say that BC Liberals have been putting BC Hydro into a greater deficit position so that the BC Liberals Budgets would appear to be Balanced.   The only thing wrong with their budgetary skills is that the Election Plank they've been using is warped, not straight up flat, not a level playing field.  Sagging at both ends, to the point of breaking.

Tax cuts + ensuing loss of revenue = a deliberate financial crisis…and a reason to introduce the P3 method of building  - Laila Yuile  November 2010

Bill Bennett isn't even the Finance Minister, who doesn't have the b...., the wherewithal, to explain   to the public the extra Ten Billion Dollars Debt Load that's been placed on ourselves, our children, their children.  The BC Liberals's Gordon Campbell came up with see-saw-swing-vote-saw that if the BC NDP were elected in 2005 they would ensure that our children's children would be debt.  In 2013 Christy used the big bad wolf scenario of how bad the BC NDP would be, and they converted it into a WIN.

March 2006  $27,652.0 Billion

 

March 2012   $36,317.9 Billion

September 2013  $46,881.3 Billion

Recall anyone? 

Bait and Switch Branch: Revolving, not Evolving, File name to hide the constant changes for each year  British Columbia provincial net debt maturities and schedule of maturities projected to 2050. The province manages it debt maturity so that there is typically no more than $5 Billion maturing in any given year. Data current to December 31, 2012

Nigel Wright:Master; Stephen Harper:Puppet; Wright's accomplishments: Duffy, CETA, FIPA; Harper: the Mouth that talks

Thank goodness Nigel Wright was outed by Mike Duffy, otherwise the Canadian public would still be in the dark, but not as much as the sleepy hollow that prime minister of Canada wallows in.

The Public has been looking for believable answers to questions put to the prime minister of Canada of why he was never told about the $90,000 deal.   The many facets of the deal were known to many in the prime minister Office (pmO), by Senators who chose to take directions from Nigel Wright to willingly cover up the expenses, the repayment scheme too.

Nigel Wright!   No wonder prime minister has always seemed aloof, unsafe on major shift changes in the Conservative's election planks, acting???? as though he was the last person on earth to find out about Duffy.   Did he come up with the idea of  FIPA      and CETA.




Could it be that the over budgeted F-35 file was orchestrated by Nigel Wright? 

The supersonic stealth snow mobiles.....

Piloted his way through the labyrinth of proper protocols so that Peter MacKay's fishing trip could be extended for two days by using a Canada Arm Forces helicopter?  $16,000

The Two shipyards contracts to build a fictitious fleet of vessels for the Navy and Coast Guard? $38 Billion?

Suggestion of other plots, subterfuge by Nigel Wright and the pmO?

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Andrew Coyne:   If only the czar knew.- Vancouver Sun

Ford's revelation: Horses Snort Cocaine on high, too.

Revelation:  a surprising and previously unknown fact that has been disclosed to others.  "revelations about his personal life" disclosure, surprising fact, divulgence, declaration, utterance, announcement, report, news, leak, avowal;  acknowledgement, admission, confession

Horse Snort:  
1. a. A rough, noisy sound made by breathing forcefully through the nostrils, as a horse or pig does.
b. A similar sound: the snort of a steam engine.
2. Slang
a. A drink of liquor, especially when swallowed in one gulp.
b. Cocaine or heroin, especially a small amount sniffed at one time.
c. The liquor or drug so taken.

Cocaine: an addictive drug derived from coca or prepared synthetically, used as an illegal stimulant and sometimes medicinally as a local ANAESTHETIC (Last Chance for Animals).

Horses, the sound of snorting is a well know fact, one that is synonymous to the animal.   There is the other snort, one that is ominous, where some horses have been found to have Cocaine in their urine which suggests, strongly, someone has assisted the Thoroughbreds and pushed them into the Winner's circle illegally.


A Thoroughbred's racing life ends at six years old, quickly slaughtered, then are "managed" by well meaning entrepreneurs to find their way into our real hearts, via our dinner plates.  Horses also come to us in the form of a glue, leather products, our pet's food, or used for fraudulent insurance claims to benefit the owners.

Then there is the "Bambi" era, where horses get to live out their natural lives up to 21 years and THEN end up on our dinner plates, etc..   The up to 21 years category have discovered a new life, a rewarding life, one that continues their high level of training:    Stud for Service  AND/OR they are given a chance to continue earning high returns of pats on the backs for their owners.

In essence they have been sent down to the minors: the Chuckwagon circuit.
 
Globe and Mail:

ChuckWagon Racing 
According to veterinarians and drivers, most chuckwagon horses are former thoroughbred race horses whose careers on the track were over by age six, if not earlier. They are destined for the slaughterhouse, but instead end up pulling rigs competitively until they are 21.

The BC Racing Commission has all the facts on horse racing, like Hastings or Fraser Downs, but when it comes to Chuckwagon racing, there's little to go on because the sport doesn't include gambling, or does it?

The World Professional Chuckwagon Association has CanTest to look for illegally administered drugs.  Page 5 of  15, but where are the statistics that the public can see?



There are five horse race tracks in British Columbia. Five thousand licensed owners, jockeys, drivers, trainers, grooms and exercise persons participate in approximately 200 days of live racing in the province each year. See the table below for details.

City           Race track               Type                  Race dates - 2013
Osoyoos     Desert Park            Thoroughbred   June 15th and August 31st
Princeton    Sunflower Downs Thoroughbred   June 29th
Surrey         Fraser Downs        Standardbred    Fraser Downs Race Dates [PDF]
Vancouver   Hastings                Thoroughbred  Hastings Race Dates [PDF]
Vernon         Kin Park               Thoroughbred   July 14th, 28th, and August 18th

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Google Search Criteria:   British Columbia Racing Commission Cocaine

British Columbia Government Publications Checklist
www.llbc.leg.bc.ca › Legislative Library › Publications › Checklist‎
Jump to British Columbia Racing Commission. - . 74. Cocaine facts. --. Burnaby : British Columbia Racing Commission, [1994]. Leaflet. Source: British ...

Volume 25, Number 9   September 1994      

 British Columbia Racing Commission
"Cocaine Facts" 

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"Cocaine Facts" ... 

Notes: Compiled by British Columbia Racing Commission, Pacific Racing Association, Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association and Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society  (1994)

In light of the Toronto's Mayor's recent Revelations and in conjunction with the "Cocaine Facts" document (2 copies) at the BC Legislative Library (above), they make it appear as though their reports are "persons" associated with Horse Racing.  We were correct, but not in the way that the BC Racing Commission covers the topic.
 
Therefore a new Google Search Criteria:

  1994 cocaine Pacific Racing Association, Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association and Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society.

 WTF? they are giving coke to race horses now???? - AudiWorld Forums
forums.audiworld.com › Community Discussion › Off-topic Discussion‎
Feb 13, 2005 - 6 posts - ‎5 authors
... of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's task force on drug testing. ... There's also no doubt that if racing is like society as a whole, horses are ... The racing lab called more than 50 cocaine positives in 1994, but only ... In 2002, the National Horsemen's Benevolent & Protective Association, ...

WFTII?:

At a time of increased focus on drug testing in sports, one of the most controversial issues in horse racing might surprise the casual fan: How much cocaine should be allowed in a racehorse?
By Michael Higgins
Tribune staff reporter
Published February 13, 2005

..... cocaine traces can go from the hands of a cocaine user to a horse, to the horse's bridle or to a railing that a horse might lick.

How are legal sources for Cocaine controlled????????? and doled out at race tracks?

Is it possible that the "legal sources" for the Thoroughbreds use, have been inadvertently snorted out,  to the nearby hapless trainers et al?


BC Racing Commission's short list:

Ambroxel

Benzoylecgonine

Cocaine

 Cocaine-Benzoylecgonine

Marijuana

26 infractions detected

Total Enforcement Actions 1298

BC Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch Reports: (Search for Cocaine in Horse Racing....XLS)

• Gaming Enforcement Actions - Gaming Workers [PDF] [XLS]
  (Gambling Industry Personnel)
• Gaming Enforcement Actions - Gaming Service / Equipment Providers [PDF]
  (Gambling Industry Companies and Senior Officials)
• Gaming Enforcement Actions - Horse Racing Licensees / Personnel [PDF] [XLS]

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Wanted: Pamela Wallin cameo: "A Colder Kind of Death"

Wanted

Correction, Not Wanted, in any role as an appointee to any level of government.

We are aware, perhaps not you, of the Youtube Cameo appearance of Ms. Wallin in a CBC hit show called "Corner Gas".   The Subtitle is  "Corner Gas prophetic Pamela Wallin scene."


On a website called "Film Reference", a listing of Credits under the heading of Famous Works had this:    

Movies
Herself, "A Colder Kind of Death", Lifetime, 2001

We're offering, not by Extortion, $5 Hapless Harper bucks for the original (no copies) portion of the Senator's cameo in a Youtube format.

Free would be better.


Additional Youtube clips of interest are Rick Mercer's take outs on Harper and Duffy.

Fort St. John's Airport will be the exception to the rule in British Columbia: NO to "natural buffer" Zones

"..... agricultural land surroundings the airport provides a natural buffer between the airport and neighbouring uses. - Peace River Regional District  August 19, 2010"

We can't quite put our finger on what's wrong with the idea of using the Agriculture Land Reserve (ALR) that surrounds the Airport near Fort St. John as recreational arena.  It just doesn't look right.

It's been claimed that there's not enough money in growing Hay anymore, without a supplementary income.   A Rodeo, a Race Track, and other amenities would help lift that burden.

If they order you to tear down and restore the land, are you prepared to do that, or will you fight to keep the investments you've made?  - Dawson Creek Daily News   November 18, 2013

 Of course, I will fight to keep it. I am not going to invest $3 million into something I don’t believe in. I was a businessman before and this is a turning into a business, so I will pursue it and continue to work with the governments to get it to our city.

The Mayor of Fort St. John says it would be good for her City, but one should ask the Mayor, who also sits as a Director on the PRRD, how was the consensus reached on the various Uses for the Airport which is inside the circle of ALR property.   For Example:

Subject: Review of Commercial and Industrial Uses in Zoning Bylaw No. 1343, 2001

Evaluation:  Page 5  The permitted uses are consistent with the purpose of the zone and with each other. The automotive race track use is consistent with airport uses when airports runways can be converted to race tracks. Agriculture is consistent with airport use in that the agricultural land surroundings the airport provides a natural buffer between the airport and neighbouring uses. - Peace River Regional District  August 19, 2010

Maybe we've got it wrong, the interpretation that is of the Report to the PRRD, of the "natural buffer" that is offered by shielding neighbours outside the designated ALR boundaries from the noise and pollution of their Airport, including the Automotive Race Track (1998).

The ChuckWagon (horse drawn) Race Track for the Rodeo, how will they interact with the Automotive Race Track, and the Airport, all virtually side by side?   Time will tell, but... in the meantime, there's the real estate (family homes), once the ALC is gone:

He will be transforming the land into a campground as well as an indoor and outdoor rodeo ground; he plans to use the rest of the land for real estate.  - North East News

Could it be that the Author of the PRRD Report used the phrase "natural buffer" because it was more acceptable to the Directors ears than saying "crash zone"  before the runway begins, after the runway ends or either side of the runway? 

San Francisco

YVR  October 27, 2011

Screenshot Webtrak October 27, 2011

http://webtrak.bksv.com/yvr

Every Certified Airport in British Columbia HAVE green belts, natural buffers, around their perimeter, not necessarily ALR, but they are there for a multitude of purposes.  (See: San Francisco)
 
We've created a small database here:  "ok" if an airport has a "natural buffer" or Green Belt, ok

Every unique longitude latitude Google links to the airport for a bird's eye view.

Large or Small, these are Certified Airfields.

Green Space (ok)       Certified Airports in British Columbia

ok   Anahim Lake Airport (YAA)    52° 27.202'N 125° 18.070'W
ok   Bella Bella, Campbell Island (CBBC)  52° 11.032'N 128° 9.608'W
ok   Bella Coola Airport (YBD)   52° 23.142'N 126° 35.920'W
ok   Campbell River Airport (YBL)   49° 57.344'N 125° 16.522'W
ok    Castlegar Airport (YCG)   49° 17.837'N 117° 38.248'W
ok    Chilliwack Municipal Airport (YCW)    49° 9.188'N 121° 56.541'W
ok    Comox Valley Airport (YQQ)   49° 43.038'N 124° 53.377'W
ok    Cranbrook Airport (YXC)   49° 36.634'N 115° 47.201'W
ok    Dawson Creek Regional Airport (YDQ)    55° 44.454'N 120° 11.006'W
ok    Delta, Boundary Bay Airport (CZBB)  49° 4.424'N 123° 0.385'W
ok    Fort Nelson (YYE)   58° 50.458'N 122° 35.075'W
ok?    Fort St John Airport (YXJ)   56° 14.023'N 120° 44.391'W
ok   Grand Forks (CZGF)    47° 56.782'N  97° 10.578'W
ok    Kamloops Airport (YKA)     50° 42.004'N 120° 25.848'W
ok    Kelowna International Airport (YLW)  49° 57.487'N 119° 22.984'W
ok    Langley Regional Airport (YNJ)   49° 6.035'N 122° 37.408'W
ok    Mackenzie Airport (YZY)    55° 17.972'N 123° 7.675'W
ok    Nanaimo Airport (YCD)    49° 3.296'N 123° 52.097'W
ok    Penticton Regional Airport (YYF)   49° 27.856'N 119° 35.915'W
ok    Pitt Meadows Airport (YPK)   49° 12.910'N 122° 42.650'W
ok    Port Hardy Airport (YZT)  50° 40.908'N 127° 22.165'W
ok    Powell River Airport (YPW)    49° 50.096'N 124° 30.026'W
ok    Prince George Airport (YXS)    53° 53.357'N 122° 40.239'W
ok    Prince Rupert Airport (YPR)      54° 16.896'N 130° 26.457'W
ok    Qualicum Beach Airport (XQU, CAT4)   49° 20.273'N 124° 23.629'W
ok    Quesnel Airport (YQZ)  53° 1.735'N 122° 30.554'W
ok    Salmon Arm, Shuswap Regional Airport (CZAM)   50° 41.146'N 119° 14.023'W
ok    Sandspit Airport (YZP)   53° 15.173'N 131° 48.630'W
ok    Smithers Regional Airport (YYD)   54° 49.252'N 127° 10.701'W
ok    Terrace-Kitimat Airport (YXT) 54° 27.970'N 128° 34.794'W
ok    Texada / Gillies Bay (YGB)    49° 41.750'N 124° 31.079'W
ok    Tofino Airport (YAZ)   49° 4.747'N 125° 46.427'W
ok    Trail Regional Airport (CAD4)(CYZZ)  49° 3.198'N 117° 36.336'W
ok    Vancouver International Airport (YVR) 49° 11.757'N 123° 10.647'W
ok    Vernon Regional Airport (YVK)     50° 14.830'N 119° 19.645'W
ok    Victoria International Airport (YYJ)   48° 38.804'N 123° 25.558'W
ok    Williams Lake Regional Airport (YWL)   52° 11.125'N 122° 3.751'W

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Government of Canada     Fort St. John Airport Zoning Regulations:

GENERAL

4. No person shall erect or construct on any land to which these Regulations apply, any building, structure or object or any addition to any existing building, structure or object, the highest point of which will exceed in elevation at the location of that point, any

    (a) approach surface;

    (b) outer surface; or

    (c) transitional surface.

NATURAL GROWTH

5. Where an object of natural growth on any land to which these Regulations apply exceeds in elevation any of the surfaces referred to in section 4, the Minister may make a direction that the owner or occupier of the land on which that object is growing remove the excessive growth.
DISPOSAL OF WASTE

6. No owner or occupier of any land to which these Regulations apply shall permit that land or any part of it to be used for the disposal of any waste that is edible by or attractive to birds.

Selected Glossary of the Forest Practices Board with FREE Supplements from WorkSafeBC and ATV Mud-Bogging Don'ts

There's Plugging and Mud Bogging, neither is acceptable, however when the Logging outfits get into their Tree Farm Licenses using heavy duty ATV... well, there's a law for the Public and no law for them.

A Forest  Practices Board - What we Do

Glossary of Board Terms

Bigger the Symbol (Icon) used by the Forest Practices Board to educate the public, the more important, and dangerous, is the work involved:

BLOWDOWN (WINDTHROW) Uprooting by the wind. Also refers to a tree or trees so uprooted. 


BROWSE That part of leaf and twig growth of shrubs, woody vines, and trees available for animal consumption, or, the act of consuming browse (browsing).

CABLE YARDING
A yarding system employing winches, blocks and cables.

CLEARCUT An area of forestland from which all merchantable trees have recently been harvested


COMMUNITY WATERSHEDThe drainage area above the most downstream point of diversion on a stream for which the water is for human consumption, and which is licensed under the Water Act for (i) a waterworks purpose, or (ii) a domestic purpose if the licence is held by, or is subject to, the control of a water users’ community as incorporated under the Water Act.

CROSS-DITCH   A ditch excavated across the road at an angle and at a sufficient depth, with armouring as appropriate, to divert both road surface water and ditch water off or across the road.

CUTSLOPE The face of an excavated bank required to lower the natural ground line to the desired road profile.


GEOTEXTILE FILTER FABRIC A synthetic material placed on the flat, under road fill, with the primary functions of layer separation, aggregate confinement, and distribution of load.

NOTE: This photo shows the material placed vertically, stopping road fill, for separation, aggregate confinement, ...... FAILURE

 HELICOPTER HARVESTING An aerial harvesting system whereby logs are removed vertically from the forest and flown to a roadside landing or drop zone. 

 MECHANICAL HARVESTING the process of harvesting timber using mechanized means.



MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU)An agreement between ministers defining the roles and responsibilities of each ministry in relation to the other or others, with respect to matters over which the ministers have concurrent corrupt jurisdiction.

NOXIOUS WEEDSAny weed designated by the Weed Control Regulations in the Weed Control Act and identified on a Regional District noxious weed control list.

NOTE: Noxious Weeds BBC Post

PARTICIPATING MINISTRIESThe Ministry of Forests and Range (MFR), Ministry of Agriculture and Lands (MAL) and the Ministry of Environment (MOE).

PARTICIPANTSAll those directly involved in a complaint including complainants, subjects, parties and adversely affected persons, but not other interested persons.

PERFORMANCE PENALTYCreated by Bill 47, 1997, but is not yet in force. It is an administrative penalty in addition to a contravention penalty, imposed where the licensee did not exercise due diligence.

PHREATOPHYTEA deeply-rooted plant deriving its moisture from subsurface sources.


PREVENTIONAll activities that interrupt the dispersal of new invasive plant species into a geographic area or specific location where they were not previously found. 

NOTE: Noxious Weeds BBC Post

PROPER FUNCTIONING CONDITIONThe ability of a stream, river, wetland, or lake, and its riparian area, to withstand: normal peak flood events without experiencing accelerated soil loss; channel movement or bank movement; filter runoff; and, store and safely release water (Forest Practices Code definition).
NOTE:  Enbridge and Encana and Kinder-Enron-Morgan could be hit with an unenforced Penalty.
 
PUGGING Deep hoof prints left by large ungulates on moist, fine-textured soils of streams and wetlands.

NOTE:  Deep Tire Tracks prints left by ATV  is called Mud-Bogging in British Columbia

NOTE:  Mud-Bogging

What Can I Do?

Violationtickets for mud bogging are $575, and other penalties may include towing or impoundment of vehicles, jail time and expenses related to habitat restoration.

The public are encouraged to report suspicious activities and environmental damage to the province’s toll-free, 24 hour Report All Poachers and Polluters – RAPP line at 1-877-952-RAPP (7277) or from a cell phone *7277.

RED LIST SPECIESIndigenous species that are extirpated, endangered, or threatened in British Columbia.

RILL A small channel created on steep slopes by water erosion.

RIPARIAN An area of land adjacent to a stream, river, lake or wetland that contains vegetation that, due to the presence of water, is distinctly different from the vegetation of adjacent upland areas.

RIPARIAN LEAVE STRIP An unharvested border of forest around a riparian feature.

SOIL DISTURBANCE Disturbance to the soil in the net area to be reforested resulting from the construction of temporary access structures or gouges, ruts, scalps or compacted areas resulting from forestry activities. Without rehabilitation, disturbed sites often have reduced soil productivity and may not provide optimum growing conditions for new trees. For that reason, maximum allowable amounts of soil disturbance are set in regulation.

NOTE:  This is different than Pugging and Bogging

Allowed and Encouraged by Forest Practices Board

TREE FARM LICENCE (TFL)
TFLs are privately managed Sustained Yield Units. TFLs are designed to enable owners of Crown-granted forestlands and old temporary tenures or the timber licences, which replace them; to combine these with enough unencumbered Crown land to form self-contained sustained yield management units. These licences commit the licensee to manage the entire area under the general supervision of the Forest Service. Cutting from all lands requires Forest Service approval through the issuance of cutting permits. TFLs should not be confused with Certified Tree Farms under the Taxation Act; though some Certified Tree Farm land (Crown-granted) may comprise a part of the TFL. A TFL has a term of 25 years.

NOTE:  Tree Farm Licence (TFL) and Pine Beetle Harvesting @ BBC


MANUAL TREE TOPPER A professional climber who ascends trees to prepare them for helicopter harvest as part of the process of single stem harvesting.

NOTE:  Manual Tree Topper and Tree Monkey   same video   two different job descriptions

 TREE MONKEY  A professional climber who ascends trees to prepare them for helicopter harvest as part of the process of single stem harvesting.

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Randomly selected Audits performed by Forest Practices Board

    Audit of Fire Prevention Practices  BC Hydro and Power Authority  Occupant Licences to Cut  L48655, L48700, L48750, L48751