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Comment on Resident Evils by JJ

JJ — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:17:45 +0000

I made an error in the first line of that previous post. I meant to say, “debt” rather than “wealth”. I suspect that many Vancouverites aren’t feeling very wealthy these days.

Comment on Resident Evils by JJ

JJ — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:59:31 +0000

Hobb Knob-

I think that you meant to say shift the wealth from big business to the people. if you want to be really depressed, you have to follow the legal challenge to the anti-HST petition. The government claims that they aren’t going to challenge the legality(claim that the wording is too vague for it to serve as legislation) of the petition, but, a number of big businesses are. And who is representing the big businesses? Well, none other than Peter Gall. And who is Peter Gall? A partner -with Geoff Plant- at Heenan, Blaikie Gall is as much of a liberal insider as you can get without, in fact, being a liberal cabinet minister. Why would Gall-a labour and human rights lawyer-do THIS kind of case? Isn’t it out of his area of expertise? Because even the liberals thought that it would be too obvious if Geoff Plant represented the supposed “non governmental” legal challenge to the petition…

Comment on Bad Vet by JJ

JJ — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:19:23 +0000

No, buddy, you don’t know what you’re talking about. You have in part dismissed Bhullar’s claim on the basis that the market would essentially determine whether he is providing reasonable standards of care. I quote you below: “Canada thrives on competition and lower rates would be embraced by pet owners if the quality of care was comparable to other available services.” The lower rates are being embraced by the general public. Dr. Bhullar and many of the other Indo-Cdn vets have a loyal and GROWING clientele.

PLUS, all of the disciplinary charges against another INdo-Cdn. vet were recently dismissed by a BC Court on the basis that there was evidence of bias in the BCVMA proceedings…

Your specious “reasoning” for dismissing Dr. Bhullar’s claim appears to be that 1) it can’t be true 2) he didn’t call you back.

Your comment re: the licensing issue is also utterly ill-informed. The fact that he had a license has no bearing on the legitimacy of the claim that the English language proficiency test was being used as a means to prevent FURTHER Indo-Cdn vets from being licensed in BC. The standard being used by the BCVMA-one they were forced to scrap-was higher than ANY other profession in NA.

I’d just be a heck of a lot more cautious before posting someone’s picture on a website and making strong, uninformed comments.

As people who have actually followed this case know, it’s an economic issue that has become racialized because the BCVMA identifies the target group in terms of race…

Comment on A funny guy by robert simons

robert simons — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:15:06 +0000

Thank you for this.
Indeed I did find it somewhat humorous. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would rank the spider thing as 9, the logo thing as 8, the party thing as 7 and the Herman Cartoon as 10. I will gradly pay you Tuesday for a pie chart of my assesment today.

Comment on Bad Vet by R&O

R&O — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:48:14 +0000

Actually ‘Buddy‘, I do know what I’m talking about and if you read my post you might be able to wrap your small, pointy head around it. Did you read my followup post? Nope, I didn’t think so. Playing the race card to defend oneself from charges or allegations is usually lame and at best pathetic. In this case I actually contacted the vet in question and requested to discuss the issue and would certainly have posted an apology if required. Although the receptionist confirmed that the vet had received my request and would ‘get back to me’, he never did. It’s much easier to blame racism for ones problems than provide facts to defend oneself and, based on that, I’m guessing the original charges are probably accurate.

Comment on Bad Vet by JJ

JJ — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:27:52 +0000

Buddy, you completely miss the point. The Indo-Cdn. low cost vets are fluorishing financially. They have an active and growing clientele and new low cost clincs are opening up. Vets who are trying to compete with them and are charging the “suggested” BCVMA rate are finding it difficult to compete. The BCVMA disciplinary tribunals are stacked with people who are direct competitors of people who run low cost vets. So, they have a financial interest in bringing disciplinary charges and finding them guilty of those charges. The reason that it’s a race issue is that the BCVMA disseminates information that plays on race and ignorance. For example, they claim that Indo. Cdn. vets trained in India only learn how to treat large animals. This is false. It’s the substantive claims that members of the BCVMA have made that are the basis for the racist claim. Before you spout off, you may want to actually know SOMETHING about what you’re talking about…

Comment on Resident Evils by Hobb Knob

Hobb Knob — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:22:07 +0000

After several decades, now that we have figured out who Gordon Campbell is, we might want to look into who his successors might be. For example, Carol Taylor. Her main accomplishment as finance minister was to elliminate the bank tax. Gordon Campbell has followed this with the imposition of the HST. We need to remember that these measures are part of the agenda and raison d’etre of the Liberal party led by a group of people of which Gordon Campbell is a member, as well as Carole Taylor and many others. Their agenda is to shift wealth from the people to big business.

Comment on Resident Evils by Spell Check

Spell Check — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:16:37 +0000

I note that you are (or were) a life time liberal supporter. Your life time or the life time of the BC Liberal party? Going back to Gordon Wilson?
I am always surprised when I hear people say they have come to realize who Gordon Campbell is and what the BC Liberal party is about. Campbell has been in the public eye for decades. He’s the same guy he has always been. I don’t think Campbell or the Liberals since Wilson have concealed their agenda and ideaology. Perhaps if voters paid a little more attention and educated themselves a little better then voted accordingly, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in. Even the drunk driving stunt and and the BC Rail lies didn’t seem to faze the Liberal supporters. Now they act like they have been betrayed. Ridiculous.

Comment on Happy Birthday Lilian Louise by Brett

Brett — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:22:26 +0000

Nice words Addy!
Mum will love them…

Comment on Happy Birthday Lilian Louise by Bother "Mark"

Bother "Mark" — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:40:40 +0000

Very well put Ad. I am sure Mum will have a read at some point and appreciate the thoughts.
- Mark