Category: politics
So I decided to stay in tonight because (a) I’ve been doing entirely too many things lately and I’m freaking exhausted, (b) I still haven’t recovered sleep from last weekend’s hockey playoffs ((seriously, who schedules games at the unholy hours of 10:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. on weekend days??)) and (c) I have a bunch […]
So BC has a new premier! The BC So-Called Liberals chose Christy Clark, former Deputy Premier and former radio show host on WGYY ((White Guy (Or Girl, in this case) Yelling At You Radio)), to replace lame duck Gordo as the leader of their party and, thus, our new premier. And it reminded me that […]
Hey, look at me, writing my BC premier series posting for the second week in a row. w00t! Name Arthur Daniel Miller or possibly Daniel Arthur Miller ((depends if you ask Wikipedia or The Canadian Encyclopedia. The Government of BC biography page only refers to him as “Dan Miller,” so they are no help)) Born: […]
Hey, remember a million zillion years ago when I was working on a series of postings about BC Premiers, posting about one premier each Sunday? Yeah, apparently neither did I. But with the convergence of needing to come up with a new blog posting topic every day this month AND the big news of Gordon […]
Sign from the Restoring Sanity rally: Props to Dr. Dan, who brought this to my attention after seeing it here, who posted it after they saw it here.
Dr. Dan, who is perhaps vying for the title of Chief Political Correspondent ((better watch your back, Sarsh!)) here on NTBTWK has brought to my attention this site: http://openparliament.ca/ On this site you easily find information about what your Member of Parliament (MP) is saying – in Parliament, on Twitter and in the news – […]
Premier of the Province of British Columbia. Name Michael Franklin Harcourt Born: January 6, 1943 in Edmonton, AB Died: hasn’t Party: NDP Held Office: Nov 5, 1991 to Feb 22, 1996 earned B.A. and Bachelor of Laws from the University of British Columbia (UBC) 1973-1980: served as Vancouver alderman 1980-1986: served as mayor Vancouver major focus […]
Spotted on a mailbox downtown: Props to Kalev for bringing this hilariousness to my attention!
The 28th Premier of the Province of British Columbia and the first female one ever! insert pic Name Rita Margaret Johnston Born: April 22, 1935 in Melville, Saskatchewan Died: hasn’t Party: Social Credit Held Office: April 2, 1991 – November 5, 1991 the first – and so far, only – female premier of BC before […]
Well, well, well. Documents handed over to the Commons Industry Committee reveal that, as we all knew anyway, the Conservatives did, in fact, know that Statistics Canada did not support the scrapping of the mandatory long form of the census and then replacing it with a voluntary survey. Furthermore, they tried to get Stats Canada […]