For no particular reason, here’s @isitt_ using his position at the Council table Feb 13, 2020 to read a letter he wrote to one of the owners of @HarbourCats in their capacity as Chair of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce, who Isitt claimed had defamed him. #yyj
I asked Isitt about it the next day. It’s unusual to see an elected office holder (who later voted on matters that could directly impact the team partly owned by the recipient of Isitt’s letter) to use a council seat in this fashion.
Instead of recusing himself Thursday from a matter potentially impacting the sports team partly owned by the recipient of Isitt’s Feb 13, 2020 letter alleging defamation (above), Isitt predicted potential problems with “fecal matter” proximate to the sports field.
Isitt felt so strongly about this issue in 2020 that he inquired as to how the @CityOfVictoria could review its membership with the *Chamber of Commerce*, suggesting a community association who said that about him might face similar consequences from the city.
Isitt’s point about tax dollars contributing to false information being spread in the community by CALUCS is an interesting one, given the participants in this current saga that we may well revisit after October.
The economic damage we suffered in the storm is still being significantly understated. Canada has no trade access to Pacific tidewater for the 1st time since the completion of the railroad. Each day of lost movement results in someone accruing a loss that is not recoverable.
It won’t be noticeable for a few days, but the endless flow of goods East to west grinding to a halt is difficult to overstate with respect to the harm it will cause.
The big one is energy — there’s a 150,000 barrel per day backlog building for every 24hr Trans Mountain’s down.
Ships are floating off Vancouver right now waiting to unload goods to be shipped by rail lines that are severed. The same lines fill them. They won’t be able to load/unload until that flow is restored. Others are on the way & will arrive to find a system brought to a standstill.
The thing that scares me the most right now is the Trans Mountain pipeline being shutdown. We need to bring it back online and we need to do it as fast as humanly possible.
Most cars/trucks/busses/etc in the entire province get their gas from it. Not an exaggeration.
BC has 2 refineries — Husky in the interior and Parkland in Burnaby. Neither has the capacity to come even close to keeping vehicles (land, sea & air) fueled for the 5 million people who live here.
Constant resupply from Alberta is what does that.
And we’re cutoff…
Furthermore, the Husky and Burnaby refineries source most of not all of their feedstock from… the same pipeline!
That means Vancouver International Airport runs out of jet fuel before too long (Parkland makes it).
Don’t worry it’s been more than a year since last time a random person was permanently maimed by a random assailant in Centennial Square who was never identified/arrested perhaps because there were no surveillance cameras allowed, a risk the city ignored.
I’m not being glib either. That really happened. All the whiners out there mewling about how I criticize them for spreading misinformation that allowed this crisis to happen in the first place: at least your hands etc still work. #yyjcheknews.ca/it-came-out-of…
You know warned people? I warned people. Those of you who helped the politicians lie are despicable and no censure you face will be worse than what innocent people who had no choice at all have already suffered.
I love how the #fairycreek narrative has wandered so far from reality that they’re yelling for the courts to protect them from the RCMP (who were sent there by the courts) to remove them for defying the courts.
Judges *love* stupid games that insult them & waste their time. 👍🏻
Galaxy brain move: defeat the courts by convincing the courts that enforcing their lawful orders is actually unlawful so the courts have no choice but to enjoin themselves from enjoining you.
Way to go, geniuses. In the 900 years of the common law, nobody thought of that before
Blockade: We are frustrating logging operations!
Courts: Move.
Blockade: You can’t tell us to move! You’re garbage! Nobody should obey you!
Courts: Move now.
Blockade: Do your worst!
Courts: RCMP, move them.
RCMP: Ok.
Blockade: Courts! Help us! They’re shoving us! Help!!!
The mayor of @CityOfVictoria is calling on the 19,000 people who signed the petition to Save Beacon Hill Park to wage a letter writing campaign to the offices of:
But as was put to the mayor by our own @RyanPriceCFAX, all the money in the world would not house every single person in the park because some are notoriously hard to house and even if they did, new campers could choose to arrive at any time.
She admits this number exists.
The mayor argues that this number is small, which does not address the main issue — the campers are legally in the park because the daytime camping ban was suspended by a decision *the city made.*
I think she’s trying to aim public anger at the federal government wrongly. #yyj