Local Hero needs your help

I will write more about this later today. Ernie is one of those people that make small towns interesting and he in is own way makes Williams lake and area so much better. I just learned of his being in hospital after having spent 2 months trying to reach him... More soon.

Fundraiser for Ernie Engemoen

Oct. 18 at Elks Hall, Williams Lake BC

There will be a fundraising dinner to help raise money for Ernie Engemoen, his wife Cheryl, and their family.

Engeomoen is still in St. Paul’s Hospital and his family is in need of assistance, as expenses are mounting.

A dinner and dance will be held on Oct. 18 at the Elks Hall. Cocktails will be at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $50 and are available from:

• Lake City Glass

• Vern’s Place (across from the GROW centre)

• Lo’s Florist

• Spectra Motor Sports

• Mayor Scott Nelson

• Karen’s Place,

• Comer Station Pub

• Margetts Meats, and

• Grassland Equipment.

Volunteers and door prize donations are also needed.

Call Vern at 250-392-8777 to help out.

Tory times are tough times

a letter to the editor

Williams Lake Tribune

Editor:

I would like to comment specifically on two major Stephen Harper/Conservative party policy blunders which (thankfully) have not seen the light of day.

First of all, on Iraq, the Conservatives would have put Canadian troops into that country at a time when everyone outside of his party adamantly opposed his position. The fact that weapons of mass destruction did not exist was well known at that time by anyone who bothered to find out.

The Conservatives in this country bought into the Bush/Cheney lie lock, stock and barrel. That was 2003. Thankfully, Stephen Harper’s party did not hold government. It would have cost us billions of dollars and created a huge mess, had Harper been PM.

More recently, right around the time that the two major mortgage providers in the U.S. (Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae) were going down, there was an article in the Vancouver Sun business section.

The article pertained to a speech that Harper had given in front of a group of business people where Harper said that the banking industry in Canada needed to be further de-regulated.

Even as the ship was sinking in the U.S., Harper was giving a speech in favour of aligning our financial sector more closely with that of the U.S. This is another example of Harper’s Conservative party lack of foresight.

Now we see Harper saying that the “economic fundamentals” in Canada are sound. My view is that the so-called “fundamentals” are not sound, but we would be in a much worse situation had Harper held a majority government.

On both of these huge issues, Harper was wrong. On both of these issues it’s Stephen Harper and his Conservatives who would have made decisions which would have directly brought Canada to the brink. This is the kind of leadership that Canadians deserve?

If Harper had been in a majority over the last few years we wouldn’t be sitting here talking about how and when the economic crisis will hit Canada.

We’d be sitting here asking what to do to pick up the pieces. It’s the fact that Harper has not been in a majority government that has ironically saved his butt.

Tommy Douglas used to say “Tory times are tough times.” That statement still applies decades later.

DL

Williams Lake, BC

If you become VP, Its Canada for me

This is a must see video made in the good ole USA. Sarah Palin if you become VP, it's Canada for me...

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It May not happen like they wish

May,(BE) not so fast...

Elizabeth May is a good candidate in the wrong riding. She deserves to be in parliament yet she is not going to make it. She can not make it in Central Nova. May should have chosen a more urban seat to run in. The Liberals and Greens were way behind the NDP and Conservatives in the last election there and May, although her vote will go up, largely drawing from those that have not voted before and some Liberals will go her way.


The Liberals seem to have a lot riding on the riding results even if they do not have a candidate running under their name. Their candidate is Green party Candidate May. 10,349 people voted for the Liberals in this riding in the last election.

Some high profile Liberals arranged a back room meeting so May could meet other key Liberals. The meeting drew only 35 Liberals including guest speaker Senator Jim Cowan. "We need her," he said reported STEPHEN MAHER of the Chronicle Herald

"The country needs her. Stephane Dion needs her, and I ask you to do your part," continued Senator Cowan. Also there to help out was provincial Liberal president Derek Wells and a retired Senator. Cowan told the Chronicle Herald that key Liberals were backing Ms. May.

It is ironic that the progressive vote in Central Nova is not for the leader of the Green Party. That does not take anything away from the the NDP candidate, its just as the national media in focusing on this riding did not look at the ground there. They were instead sensationalising. They were there to see the two stars in the race, May and Conservative War Minister MacKay duke it out for the cameras.

The real race is between the NDP and Conservatives as much as many would like the fairy tale race to happen. NDP candidate Louise Lorefice has a lot of help and her message resonates better than May's and the Liberals.

The Conservative email, a portion of it reproduced above is a real reflection of what is happening. Are any of you really surprised?

hat tip to Buckdog

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Peggy earns her way...

It looks as if Peggy will return to Ottawa. Its a tough fight with the Liberals throwing everything they have at it, Peggy is moving through all they toss her way.

This is a video of her appearance on Canada AM talking about some of the real tools the NDP have provided people with and why we need a strong voice in Ottawa to deal with the big banks.

CTV's Seamus O'Regan talks with NDP industry critic Peggy Nash ...



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May gets Duffy in the Kisser

Credit where it is due!!!!

I like Ms. May, too bad she will not win in her riding. Central Nova could only go NDP with the progressive vote. I want May, next time a winning riding.




thanks Scott...

Harper platform a wash!

A picture is worth a thousand words they say....

Dion scours land for Duct tape

Stephane Dion was seen in Canadian Tire yesterday to see how much duct tape he could get in a hurry. He was told to try wal-mart as Stephen Harper bought Canadian Tire out.

I mean all this over a little book leaked before its planned release date...
From McClelland.com

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