How to get elected in New Westminster in 2014: A Flowchart

I’ve decided to move my blog away from WordPress and to Octopress. Why? Simple. I don’t blog as much any more, and I don’t have time for blogging much any more. Part of being a responsible website operator is making sure your website hasn’t been hacked to serve out bad things. WordPress, being a dynamically-generated…

Let’s face reality: the Green Party isn’t going to win the 2013 BC Election. They might win one or two seats. They’ll probably get 9-10% of the popular vote. And that is why I’m voting for the Green Party on Tuesday. I don’t like the first past the post elections we have in BC and…

The BC Conservatives are planning on scrapping the carbon tax, bribing Lower Mainland drivers with a $408 tax credit for frequent toll and ferry users, expanding mining, supporting the Northern Gateway pipeline and Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, and so on, and so on. Those who know me know that I’m pretty left-wing. That’s why I…

On 11 May 2013 the Vancouver Sun published a list of 20 hot topics in the upcoming BC election with the positions of the four major parties. Based upon their responses, the BC Liberals have put a lot of their eggs in the Liquified Natural Gas basket. The BC Liberals are proposing that LNG be…

2014 was a pretty slow one on the good old blog, with only 22 posts written. Heck, the first one in 2014 didn’t come until September 17th! Nonetheless, I did actually get some people actually visiting the site, with 7663 pageviews in total over 2014. That’s actually up over 2013 by 2.69%, astonishingly. The most…

David Brett is running for New Westminster city cuncil in 2014. I was initially planning on voting for him, but after doing a little more research I won’t be voting for David Brett. See, Mr. Brett is involved in his community, and for someone running for council, that’s a good thing. He’s president of the…