Tag Archives: Patrick Kinsella

Liquor privatization… in the dark of the night

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Ian

The BC Liberals posted the LDB privatization business plan on its open government (hahahahahahahahahahahahah, sic, etc…) site late yesterday or sometime last night. Read it here. Two things you should know about the release: 1. The document isn’t a business … Continue reading →

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Are van Dongen’s BC Rail questions real?

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Ian

John van Dongen resigned from the BC Liberal caucus and party citing unanswered questions about the deal that ended the BC Rail trial and the Premier’s own involvement in the corrupt sale of the railway. In the legislature, Attorney General … Continue reading →

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Reichart and Basi

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Ian

A very interesting bit on Alex Tsukamis’ website today.  It’s another ‘memo to file’ from Basi, witnessed and dated to November 17, 2003.  And it covers a conversation between Liberal Party executive director Kelly Reichart and David Basi regarding the … Continue reading →

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Star search: the BC Liberal edition

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Ian

I remember Mike Harcourt in a meeting sometime late in 1995, the burden lifted from his shoulders.  ‘I’m taking out the trash,’ he said, ‘Feel free, load it all on a barge and I’ll tow it out to sea with … Continue reading →

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Optically unfortunate: BC Rail, CN and Patrick Kinsella

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Ian

Thursday’s handover from Virk’s lawyer, Kevin McCullough, to David Basi’s lawyer, Michael Bolton, was seamless as one dropped and the other picked up the CN thread. Not surprisingly the name of BC Liberal campaign co-chair Patrick Kinsella came up. “Mr. … Continue reading →

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Evil Twins: What BC Rail and the HST Have In Common

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Ian

A version of this story appears in the Vancouver Observer Around about 1930, Dorothy Parker started answering her telephone with the question, “what fresh hell is this?”  Little did she know that she was channeling BC Liberal operatives yelling into … Continue reading →

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