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PATRICK MURPHY ON 'OUR HIGHLY PAID VICTORIA COUNCILLORS: Lynn Hunter and Chris Coleman, who could not be bothered to show up to represent Victorians'
TWO COUNCILLORS DID NOT EVEN VOTE ON ‘FORTIN’S FOLLY’ I would have thought a $63-million project for a new Blue Bridge — the biggest city project ever — would be an imp… more →
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PATRICK MURPHY ON 'OUR HIGHLY PAID VICTORIA COUNCILLORS: Lynn Hunter and Chris Coleman, who could not be bothered to show up to represent Victorians'
goyodelarosa wrote 5 hours ago: TWO COUNCILLORS DID NOT EVEN VOTE ON ‘FORTIN’S FOLLY’ I would have thought a $63 … more →
ROB REID thanks Victoria City Councillors Madoff + Young 'for attempting to slow down council's present course... over JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE'
goyodelarosa wrote 6 hours ago: FORMER VICTORIA LIBERAL MAYORAL CANDIDATE SAYS ’TO BLINDLY RUSH AHEAD WITH THE LARGEST EXPEND … more →
FORMER LIBERAL MP DAVID ANDERSON, VICTORIA MAYORAL CANDIDATE ROB REID + COUNCILLOR CANDIDATE BARRY HOBBIS: Liberals join JohnsonStreetBridge.org call for JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE referendum
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goyodelarosa wrote 1 day ago: Former Liberal Member of Parliament for Victoria, Honourable David Anderson, joined two Liberal cand … more →
JohnsonStreetBridge.org will count signed petitions for a referendum to SAVE JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE
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goyodelarosa wrote 1 day ago: JOHNSONSTREETBRIDGE.ORG WEBSITE LEADS OPPOSITION TO SOCIALIST MAYOR’S $42,000,000 ‘REPLA … more →
ELECTOR RESPONSE FORM FOR CITY OF VICTORIA'S 'JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT' Alternative Approval Process pdf
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goyodelarosa wrote 3 days ago: FORTIN’S SEMI- FINAL 10% SOLUTION An Elector Response Form for the City of Victoria’s … more →
STEPHEN ANDREW SLAMS FORTIN'S 'NEGATIVE BILLING OPTION': "Shouldn't we have gone to referendum right away?"
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goyodelarosa wrote 3 days ago: CFAX Radio News’ ’stand in’ reporter Stephen Andrew interviewed Victoria Mayor Dea … more →
VICTORIA CITY COUNCILLORS PAMELA MADOFF + GEOFF YOUNG OPPOSE MAYOR DEAN FORTIN'S 45 day Johnson Street Bridge 'alternative approval process' (AAP)
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goyodelarosa wrote 4 days ago: JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE BY THE NUMBERS: 1 MAYOR, ELECTED BY 12% OF VICTORIA ELECTORS, WITH FOUR VICTO … more →
BRIAN BELCHER: 'Enjoy the Olympics, because those who can least afford it are paying dearly'
goyodelarosa wrote 4 days ago: SENIOR FACES HUGE CARE COST HIKE This week, my 90-year-old mother received a letter from the Vanco … more →
DICK HAINSWORTH: 'This silly, self-indulgent, $6-billion Olympic ritual of breastbeating tribalism...'
goyodelarosa wrote 4 days ago: POOR, SICK AND NEEDY PAYING FOR THE GAMES Re: “Torch offered wonderful moments” letter … more →
'Where's democracy headed in Victoria BC?' wonders YULE HEIBEL @ JohnsonStreetBridge.org
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goyodelarosa wrote 5 days ago: Yule Heibel, one of three co-directors of JohnsonStreetBridge.org, exhorts her fellow ‘colonia … more →
CHRIS SHAW'S OLYMPIC RETORT @ VANCOUVER OBSERVER: One of our best outraged Canadian anti-Olympics writers
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goyodelarosa wrote 5 days ago: Chris Shaw is a Canadian citizen, an immigrant, a professor, and a well-respected anti-Olympics auth … more →
MAYOR DEAN FORTIN'S 'FAR OUT' 20 YEAR PLAN FOR THE NEW JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'Property taxes will not increase as a result of this project'
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goyodelarosa wrote 5 days ago: Mayor Dean Fortin’s revisionist history of the Johnson Street Bridge in this morning’s T … more →
Victoria federal Conservative candidate PATRICK HUNT 'is a nice guy,' says self-described 'centrist' federal Liberal candidate CHRISTOPHER CAUSTON, 'but his leader is too ideological'
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goyodelarosa wrote 6 days ago: Recently I had occasion to rudely accost the Mayor of Oak Bay, one Christopher Causton, in the lobby … more →
CATHERINE TURNQUIST: 'If disabled children are no longer a priority, then neither is civilization'
goyodelarosa wrote 1 week ago: DISABLED CHILDREN MUST BE A PRIORITY A small delegation of parents went to the legislature recentl … more →
DANIEL AITKEN SHOULD REMAIN IMPRISONED FOR LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE: Convicted of Samir Shamoon's manslaughter, Alexander McLean's + Adan Merino's murders
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goyodelarosa wrote 1 week ago: Daniel Christopher Myles Aitken now awaits sentencing for his second conviction for murder, that of … more →
ERIC MARGOLIS: Why Canada should get out of Afghanistan
goyodelarosa wrote 1 week ago: ‘ALL FOREIGN SOLDIERS MUST WITHDRAW’ An election held under the guns of a foreign … more →
PAUL WILLCOCKS ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: 'A referendum, with specific, detailed questions, would allow... voters to offer their best judgements'
goyodelarosa wrote 1 week ago: ‘SUPPORT OF ONLY 12 % OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS WAS ENOUGH TO ELECT DEAN FORTIN AS MAYOR LAST YEAR … more →
PETER DEWOLF: 'Any deficit from next year's Olympics will be paid off by the people in this province'
goyodelarosa wrote 2 weeks ago: THINK OF THE DEFICIT FORGET THE VANOC BONUSES Recently, the Times Colonist published a story about … more →
TAMARA HERMAN: 'Taxpayers are largely footing a $6,000,000,000 Olympic bill'
goyodelarosa wrote 2 weeks ago: A COLLOSAL MISUSE OF OUR RESOURCES Re: “Pride and protest: Readers sound off about Olympic t … more →
