Vancouver City Manager Judy Rogers dumped. Rogers was an emotional enabler to former mayor Sam Sullivan’s worst instincts, most notably during the Civic Strike of 2007. Funnily enough, Sullivan upped her salary to $292k - a 62% raise.
Stephen Harper may not be done yet, but you can hear the knives sharpening.
Anatomy of a meltdown: Ben Bernanke was slow on the uptake on this, the biggest economic crisis in modern history.
From the Dept. of Rash Promises….
Item #2564 entered as evidence to explain why the conservative movement in the United States, and elsewhere, in collapsing: The root of the global economic crisis is the War on Christmas.
The caches that included Iranian weapons thus represented just 2 percent of all caches found. That means Iranian-made weapons were a fraction of one percent of the total weapons found in Shi’a militia caches during that period.
And another Iraq bugaboo - that Iran was flooding the country with “advanced weaponry” - is laid to rest.
A commenter on this Tyee piece, who I believe is in the know, further undermines BC Lee’s story.
Oh my. This could land Councillor Lee in a lot of hot water, quite possibly legal.
Update: And Global TV doesn’t look particularly good either.
The most important element in the hubbub around the City of Vancouver’s decision to “loan” private developer Millenium Developments $100 million is how we got into this position in the first place. There is a long line of decision-making that favours high-reward but high-risk ventures - starting with tapping Millenium for the project in the first place - and subsequently failing to disclose those risks to Council - by the city’s staff (either of their own volition or at the direction of “someone”). This is certainly the case when details of rival bids were not disclosed, and with the Estelle Lo’s concerns not being passed on. Information suppression is a pattern and it’s no way to run anything, let alone a city.
Oh goodie, we’ve enter the farce stage of scandal. Particularly hilarious because there remains nothing beyond circumstantial evidence that this “leak” was the source used in Gary Mason’s original article. That it wasn’t is something which he says in not so many words.