Blogs, Vancouver IAM Daily Blog Report: Canucks Away for Four, Pickton Case Reflects on Vancouver, Campbell


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Canucks Head to California

From Canucks Hockey Blog we get a game-day post for the Canucks vs. Kings game tonight. Our blogger calls Vancouver and Los Angeles “two teams going in opposite directions. “Since the start of November, the Canucks are 11-3-3 while the Kings are 5-9-2.” The Kings problem, our blogger surmises, isn’t their offence, which is pretty good.
“Their 2.76 goals per game is in the middle of the pack and 25.3% powerplay percentage at home is second-best in the league. Their problem is keeping the puck out of the net.”

Comparing the Canucks, the post continues, Vancouver has only allowed seven goals in the last seven games. “I'm interested to see how the Canucks will follow-up that thrilling, albeit disappointing, game on Saturday,” says our blogger. There’s a touch stretch ahead with four away games in six nights. “That said, it's been more than a month since the Canucks lost two consecutive games, so I hope that trend continues.

Questioning Campbell’s Track Record

Steven Rees takes issue in his blog with Gordon Campbell being nominated for The Globe and Mail’s “National Builder of the Year Award” for 2007. In The Globe the nomination states that in the past year, Campbell came to office during a weakening environmental program and “has shown that a political leader can grow in the job and rise to the challenges that confront him... In a time of growing cynicism about politicians… [he has] helped restore our eroding faith in public institutions.” Rees is looking for a way to protest this nomination, which he believes must have been posted by one of Campbell’s “hired hands.”

In his entry he points out that Campbell disgraced the office “by driving drunk on holiday in Hawaii” then proceeded to gut the Environmental Assessment process and halve “the resources of the ministry that [were] supposed to be protecting the environment.” He also promised not to privatise BC Rail, but then did it anyway. In addition, “he overturned a Regional Transportation Plan that had won an award from the Transport Association of Canada” and would have been the first “urban sustainable transportation plan,” so that he could promote “a subway to the airport and a ‘Gateway’ program” that threatens a unique ecosystem in the Fraser delta. Aside from his poor environmental record, Rees mentions there are plenty of other activities that speak to him “not been a unifying force in BC - promoting dissent and discord wherever he goes.” Rees encourages readers to write letters to the editors of The Globe and Mail.

Responding to Pickton Conviction

In a recent post on Metroblogging Vancouver, Jeffrey Simpson admits not following the Pickton trial as closely as he could have. “I get a sense that people are just tired of it,” our blogger says, “most of us having made up our minds about his guilt as we watched footage of the RCMP and VPD combing through his pig farm.” He got his trial and was convicted. However, before the whole affair becomes just a “bad memory,” Simpson asks us to question “the city, the police and ourselves about how a man managed to kill so many women over such a long period of time before he was caught.”

He wonders, in his post, if it was purely because they were, for the most part, women from the Downtown Eastside? This is of particular interest to our blogger, as his own uncle, who had a drug problem, disappeared from the Downtown Eastside and was never heard from again. “We've stopped being worried about what happens to the people there, and now we as a city are faced with a man who has been convicted of killing six people, charged with twenty more murders and suspected of nearly fifty.” Simpson is saddened that he has no answers, only questions, and wishes he could offer “solutions and change as opposed to [his] pointed finger.”

Mayor Sullivan Accuses Councillor of “Defamatory Statements”

In a recent post from Monte Paulsen of The Tyee, he reports that Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan has accused City Councillor Raymond Louie of “making ‘untrue and defamatory’ statements, and warned the opposition councillor to ‘be cognizant of’ the mayor's view on such statements in the future.” The “ambiguous letter” was sent via a private lawyer, and does not cite any specific statements or mention taking any legal action. Louis has responded by saying, “The letter is not asking for an apology. And I am not offering one.”

BC Civil Liberties Association president Jason Gratl, also responding to the issue, said, “Sending letters of this type is an unfortunate attempt to stifle public debate… Trying to limit public discussion… on election financing issues by sending out such messages is inappropriate in a democracy." In the post, it is stated that Sullivan’s lawyer, William S. Berardino, Q.C., reviewed a number of “materials” that contained “a number of statements which are not only untrue but are defamatory of Mayor Sam Sullivan.” The mentioned materials are generally critical of the mayor’s fundraising practices. Mayor Sullivan has been “unavailable” for comment.

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