As the torch for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games approaches Vancouver after being carried across Canada, the torch for a parallel games arrived yesterday. It was the torch for the 2010 Poverty Olympics, carried from city to city across British Columbia. It’s arrival was cheered by about 500 people packed […]

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Shame the sponsors. That sums up the remedy advised by Vancouver Olympics Organizing Committee member and Vancouver City Manager Penny Ballem on Wednesday Jan. 13, after she was briefed at City Hall on evidence of persecution of bloggers and other computer/internet users by the City of Vancouver.  Ballem (in photo above […]

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Teenage blogger and newspaper writer, Walker Morrow, has become something of a balloon boy for older bloggers in Canada who have been crticizing erosion of free speech and other constitutional rights by Human Rights Commissions.  They watched in disbelief as Canada’s media giant, Canwest, abandoned Morrow when legal action was threatened over his article, “Questionable […]

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President Obama was brought up in Asia, yet he seems clueless about Afghanistan, and of the geopolitical problems in this area.
The press is even worse, preferring the simplistic out of date explanations of the “Afghanistan is Viet Nam” meme, or the “Stop the war” meme, or stressing civilian casualties “reported” by Taliban linked sources without […]

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Vancouver Police have decided not to fund raise for United Way this year.
Canadians Opposing Political Psychiatry learned of this decision after writing to the Vancouver Police Board on Sept. 22/09 requesting that they put an end to Vancouver Police fundraising for United Way.  Initially, COPP received an email from Rachelle Radiuk, Executive Director of the […]

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Vancouver Police Board members Gregor Robertson, Vancouver’s mayor, and Terry La Liberte, a criminal lawyer, have been asked to put a stop to the Vancouver Police Department’s in-house fundraising for United Way.  
Canadians Opposing Political Psychiatry made the request in writing on Sept. 22, based on documented evidence supporting allegations that United Way benefited from […]

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Anti-HST rally on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Canada Place (Camera was malfunctioning so the date stamp is incorrect.)
You would think Bill Vander Zalm was a movie star, the way people reacted to him at this afternoon’s Anti-HST rally at Canada Place in Vancouver, crowding around him afterwards to take his photo or get theirs […]

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Vancouver: I stopped by the Farmers Market on the lawn of Pacific Central Station, a magnet for people making an effort to follow the Hundred Mile Diet. I bought an organic Macintosh apple to snack on as I walked home.  It was $1.09, an expensive apple it seemed to me.  I bit into it, expecting […]

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A lot of nonsense being written in the news about Conservative writer George Will deciding to throw in the towel in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is a mess. Big deal. It’s been a mess for a couple thousand years, and trying to “win” a war there and put in a crumpets and tea democracy is a bit delusional.
But […]

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There has been some shocking news to hit the world of reality television this week. A man by the name of Ryan Alexander Jenkins was a contestant on the Vh1 show Megan Wants a Millionaire produced by 51 Minds. Apparently, he was also a contestant on a third season of the show I Love Money […]

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When agreeing to sponsor Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics, Acer, a manufacturer of laptop and netbook computers,would have been aware of well publicized complaints against the City of Vancouver of human rights abuses targeting computer users and bloggers. Acer has therefore been asked to pull out as a sponsor.  The request was made to Acer’s public relations representives Stella Chou and […]

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(London, UK) Lee Scott MP, a leading autism campaigner in the House of Commons in Westminster recently helped launch a thriller, a book titled ‘Gauntlet’ written by the Canadian author Richard Aaron. Scott met with Richard Aaron and autism campaigner Ivan Corea in the House of Commons.
‘Gauntlet’ is a nail biting, action packed novel. A […]

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(London, UK) The Canadian author, Richard Aaron (who recently released a fiction masterpiece recommended by the UK Autism Foundation), will be in the United Kingdom, in May 2009, to promote his book called ‘Gauntlet.’
Ivan Corea of the UK Autism Foundation said: ‘Gauntlet, written by Richard Aaron, is a fascinating piece of fiction, it puts autism […]

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The LATimes has an article about outsourcing medical transcription to Manila.
I have no problem with that. Waiting three days for the notes to get on the chart usually means you have to not only dictate everything but write it all out in longhand too, since you need the information right away..
But the part of the […]

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April 8th 2009, a little girl is seen walking down the street with a person seemingly happy and in no danger. There is nothing in the video to suggest that anything is wrong. This little girl could be walking with her sister, cousin, or possibly, though remotely, even her mother. Victoria Stafford does not seem […]

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 around 3:30pm was the last time that anyone has seen little Victoria “Tori” Stafford. A video has been released showing Victoria (in black jacket) walking with an unidentified woman in a white puffy jacket. Anyone with any information regarding this video no matter how small you may think it is, please […]

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From what I can gather, the figure being tossed around is $3.29-$3.3 billion dollars. Those figures were released December 2008. And just in case you were wondering just how much IS a billion dollars, have a look at this. The energy Minister, Tony Clement, said the deal was contingent on GM, Ford and Chrysler working […]

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When I read that a Vancouver Police spokesman told reporters that Tyson Edwards had been “rushed” to hospital after being stabbed around 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 1, I thought of a man collecting beer bottles and cans that night who tells a different story.
Roughly ten days after 21 year old Tyson Edwards, who was becoming […]

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This morning as I am going through the news as I do every morning I came across this story from FOX news, and the video in question. Is it a joke? Are they trying to be funny? If so then their idea of humour is a far cry from mine. As Canadians wait the arrival […]

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Reports of abusive husbands, who beat and even kill their wives, gather lots of publicity and create huge outcries, as they should.  For example, there are two recent reports from Buffalo, New York and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.  I hope these guys and any others who do such heinous things to other people, including wives, get […]

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I am so flippin angry right now I don’t know where to begin. Vincent Li.  That freakish barbaric attack in Winnipeg, has resulted in a hospital stay as punishment for the lunatic guilty of the crime. Vincent Li. Can you believe that? No I mean really, seriously. He is not going to spend one day […]

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According to the globe and mail this morning, some people believe now is the time for Quebec to sever ties with Canada. Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois said that “Quebec would handle the economic crisis better without Ottawa”. She also said that “Sovereignty is a pressing need,” when speaking to a gathering of 500(they say) […]

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On his first day on the job, President Barack Obama signed an executive order (his second) barring executive branch staff from accepting gifts from lobbyists. All well and good, but this  could create a sticky wicket with the government of Canada, which is in a position to give the president a rare and precious gift: […]

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Vancouver:  There was a long line-up last Saturday for the free turkey dinner cooked and served by students in the cooking, baking, and food service programs at Vancouver Community College, Pender St. campus. One man in the line said he’d never seen the line-up so long at the annual dinner. The line-up snaked from the […]

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After the reports that melamine contaminating baby formula in China had sickened thousands of children there, some parents felt that soy products for their beloved children was safer.
Well, think again.
As early as mid December, Health Canada was noting trace amounts of melamine in soy products, including some that were labled “organic”.
The level wasn’t high enough […]

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Roughly a thousand people turned up at the sprawling Schara Tzedeck Synagogue on Oak St. in Vancouver on Thursday evening to a high security – no purse or back pack got through the door unexamined — “Community Solidarity Gathering for Israel”. Some in the overflow crowd at the rally organized by the Jewish Federation of […]

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Judy Rogers has been fired after ten years as Vancouver’s City Manager. While Rogers acknowledged to the media that it had not been her choice to leave the job she “loved”, Mayor Robertson was twisting his tongue into euphemisms: “Technically, it’s a cessation of her duties by mutual understanding.” 
The firing has swept […]

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Did I hear that right? I craned my neck over the crowd at the anti-coalition rally to see speaker Senator Jerry St. Germain, but all I could see was a black cowboy hat bobbing on the stage.  I was at Saturday’s rally at Vancouver’s Library Square listening to people protest the new coaltioin of Liberals, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois to topple […]

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Vancouver’s former police chief Jamie Graham is working at Simon’s Bike shop on Robson St., selling bikes. And that’s where he should stay, say members of Canadians Opposing Political Psychiatry. Graham’s record as Vancouver’s chief of allowing constables to practice Soviet-style political psychiatry and evidence fabrication, makes it is nothing short of criminal, in the […]

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