Newbies will debate Thursday on whether a public inquiry should be called into money laundering in BC.
https://pub-victoria...ocumentId=31888
Posted 12 February 2019 - 10:52 AM
Newbies will debate Thursday on whether a public inquiry should be called into money laundering in BC.
https://pub-victoria...ocumentId=31888
Posted 12 February 2019 - 11:57 AM
But not into the Elsner case.
Posted 12 February 2019 - 12:00 PM
It would appear that Mayor Lisa Helps continues her struggles with the popular social media app called Facebook.
Some time ago Facebook cancelled her account after deciding that the words Lisa Helps was a fake name. She was successful in convincing FB that Lisa Helps was a real name and not a slogan.
A while after that she closed her account stating that it was a toxic platform.
Now someone or some group has apparently made her a new account complete with new news..
https://www.vicnews....yor-lisa-helps/
Posted 12 February 2019 - 01:01 PM
Not having seen the page in question, it sounds like it was clearly a work of satire. But given the reality of the last few years, it is sometimes hard to discern what is real and what is a joke.
The Mayor had her blog updated shortly after the account was taken down to decry being victimized and the hate directed as the LGBT and Muslim communities. Funding campaign to start shortly.
Posted 12 February 2019 - 01:03 PM
She's as thin-skinned as the mango menace south of the border.
Posted 13 February 2019 - 09:31 AM
Not having seen the page in question, it sounds like it was clearly a work of satire. But given the reality of the last few years, it is sometimes hard to discern what is real and what is a joke.
Errryone knows that it's only considered satire when so-called "progressives" do it.
Posted 13 February 2019 - 09:34 AM
Errryone knows that it's only considered satire when so-called "progressives" do it.
When the left does it (SNL, Colbert, countless social media pages) its funny and topical. When anyone else does it, its hateful and literally violence
Posted 13 February 2019 - 09:51 AM
Maybe the problem is that conservatives just aren't very funny.
Posted 13 February 2019 - 09:53 AM
There is a big difference from satirizing someone's actions or tendencies, and adopting an on-line rip off persona, which uses the Mayor's identity and name, to spread their "satire". But hey, good jokes about Helps, Isitt and co. bring it on!
Posted 13 February 2019 - 09:55 AM
Maybe the problem is that conservatives just aren't very funny.
once upon a time yes. These days the left is incapable of humour and the right have become the funny ones
Posted 13 February 2019 - 10:20 AM
Not having seen the page in question, it sounds like it was clearly a work of satire...
Posted 13 February 2019 - 10:30 AM
I’ve seen a screen shot of it, and it clearly violated Facebook’s policy on impersonation – it used her photo and her name. I very much doubt FB would have removed it, if it were a bona fide parody that met the terms of use.
Man, I love policies like that. They inadvertently provide a blueprint on as to how to beat it. I wonder what FB's response would have been to this?
Posted 13 February 2019 - 11:06 AM
once upon a time yes. These days the left is incapable of humour and the right have become the funny ones
I admit. That IS funny.
Posted 13 February 2019 - 11:12 AM
once upon a time yes. These days the left is incapable of humour and the right have become the funny ones
You obviously don't follow Mike Huckabee's twitter account.
Posted 16 February 2019 - 05:55 AM
I've been waiting for this to happen.
Victoria city council voted Thursday to reduce the requested $2.6M increase in the police budget to $1.8M. The "Together Victoria" slate headed by Laurel Collins and Sara Potts spearheaded this vote, much to the chagrin of Mayor Lisa Helps.
Check out the body language difference between Helps and Collins in this CTV news clip. Our fearless leader appears to be not happy with the 5-3 vote outcome.
https://vancouverisl...?clipId=1613583
Sara Potts chimes in at the beginning of this news hour video with her position.
https://www.cheknews...15-2019-535406/
Control of council decisions is clearly shifting away from what we have seen in the past.
Sorry about the advertisements ahead of the videos. Everybody has to eat.
Posted 16 February 2019 - 06:32 AM
Now that "they've" had their first true taste of power, expect to see a lot more instances where they exercise it.
Folks better hope that Alto gets better fast, and that Thornton-Joe, Helps, and Young stay extremely healthy!
(I think we'll all start to miss Coleman and Madoff pretty quickly as well ... I know I do already)
I'm not a big Helps fan, but prepare to see demonstration after demonstration whereupon the evidence will show that she was hardly the far-lefty she was portrayed to be, and further that her SJW chops will (are?) soon to be totally overshadowed by a group of newbies who are going to show her time and time again how real SJW is done!
Posted 16 February 2019 - 06:40 AM
i think they will manage. the cut is less than one officer per shift. when was the last time you saw less than 4 officers on a serious call. sometimes there is a dozen.
they have 240+ officers and 350 employees.
manak is talking a lot about "new world threats. not sure those exist or vicpd can do much to thwart them if there are.
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 February 2019 - 06:44 AM.
Posted 16 February 2019 - 06:44 AM
I don't think this is really about whether or not VicPD can continue to manage (of course they will) as much as it's about the massive shift in power we see at City Hall, and the ramifications that massive shift in power might have moving forward.
Posted 16 February 2019 - 06:49 AM
previous councils have allowed department budget increases well above inflation. on this one vote council decided to also allow a budget increase higher than inflation. just not as high as the chief wanted. sounds like he has 100 jobs inside the building he could cut from and leave the number of officers the same.
everyone is saying that public safety could be affected. probably not. calls will still be prioritized. less cars directing traffic at minor car crashes less cars to a noisy house party. less cars to the daily incidents at our place and 844.
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 February 2019 - 06:52 AM.
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