Forum: Politics - Municipal, Provincial, Federal

I thought I would start a new discussion on this subject because hopefully we will see some changes. Interesting article from the Bulletin on July 3, 2009 Review suggests DNPS has to adjust. I also noticed on the Downtown Partnership Society home page they have the listing of Directors and...

Everyone is invited to participate and there is no entry fee required. Volunteers are also needed so there is no reason to not get onboard. More here

If they are pulling out of Vancouver, why should we think they will show up in Nanaimo? More here

Canadian gold giant meeting resistance http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4032

I always figured they must be laughing at us and this video confirms my suspicion! We will jump all over a sales clerk if s/he inadvertently short changes us a quarter. But when it comes to Trillions of dollars we become extremely forgiving, when really we should be trying these banksters and...

Cut down all the trees. Sorry only 130 my mistake. Make way for the 1.8 million dollar improvement. I asked five times the same question. How many mature trees are you going to cut down for the improvements to the park? I got alot of different answers like "there will be more than before" and...

Quote for today: Shortly after the United States gained its freedom, the Rothschilds attempted to saddle the country with a private central bank. This Bank of the United States was abolished by then President Andrew Jackson with these words: "The bold effort the present bank has made to control...

Did anyone hear about an Open House on Monday evening at the Cedar Community Hall? I didn't hear how the meeting went, didn't see anything in the papers about it. Supposedly there were supposed to be up to 10 developers there to answer questions for residents on the projects happening in South...

The market continues to slump,even the media is not placating the real estate lobby. From the National post, Toronto appraiser Barry Lebow, of Lebow Hicks Ltd., said the Canadian real estate market has nowhere to go but down -- no matter how much cheap money is thrown at consumers. These...

Hi. All Most Americans know of the attack on the USS Cole. However, very, very few Americans know about the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty on June 08 1967 in which 34 American servicemen were killed and 171 were wounded. Yesterday was the anniversary of that attack. The truth was never...

First year attended that event; I heard some people were raging towards VIU students, as we protest against empire days, we advocated to change the name of it. why no native groups were invited for the parade? Organizer encountered raging granny; personally, Nanaimo is still so old schools,...

Are you felling "green anxiety"? There are over 30,000 scientist around the world that dispute the claims of Al Gore, they back it up with scientific facts this information is easily obtained on a web search. This amusing video will throw some light on the "other" side of the issue, the side...

TILMA, SPP, NAU, NAFTA most people don't even know what they are. Mark Twain said "if you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, and if you do read the newspaper, then you are misinformed" he was spot on with that observation. If you bother to research who owns which media networks you...

This is one of the best reads I have seen so far on the problem of "fractional Reserve" banking and the resulting economy crash. Thanks to Dennis for this. The dumb thing is that it isn't Quantum Physics, and it isn't by any means a new concept. Most of the US founding father, and even some of...

Why do I get the feeling when I see this guy on TV I am looking at Vincent Price playing "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"? Does anyone else feel the same way? Or is it just me? -- TH

GM has filed for bankruptcy. Interestingly last night there was a documentary movie showing last night called Who killed the Electric Car (GM and other makers removing these excellent brand new cars from their lease holders and shredding them despite the demand for them) this is a very telling...

http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1597829 Existing-home sales surged in April, a third consecutive monthly increase, which forced the Canadian Real Estate Association yesterday to revise its forecast for a housing market apparently on the rebound. ...

City council tonight passed third reading to the "Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw 2009 Number 6500.004(OCP046- to redisignate lands from "industrial" to "Resort Centre" to permit a mixed used resort development) and then the amendment bylaw was adopted. There are now a series of steps...

The first issues are standards, training, licencing and reporting. Like Tenspot said about goon squads, etcetera. Does anyone want this? The DNP can say they don't want it. Why are they doing it?

does anyone feel sorry for Mulroney cry me a river... “I am an honest man and my family is honest . . . all of a sudden, out of the blue, I’m a criminal.” Sounds like Nixon :" i am not a crook!" Even i am not a legal expert. I thought when it was back 90s, airbus scandal. if you were...