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• ROSS CROCKFORD ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE’S REAL ‘REPLACEMENT’ COSTS: ‘City has not revealed any engineering plans for this bridge, making it impossible to guess’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  JOHNSONSTREETBRIDGE.ORG CO-DIRECTOR QUESTIONS THE CITY OF VICTORIA’S NUMBERS Re: “Battle for the Bridge,” Nov. 29 Times Colonist: timescolonist.com   Some of the numbers used by the City of Victoria in this comprehensive feature need to be challenged. Recently the City started claiming that it will ...
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• BATTLE OF JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: Gregory Hartnell joins fray with 6 other Victorians over Johnson Street Bridge’s fate: four for saving it, 2 for replacing it, one neutral, in Victoria Times Colonist letters

  
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  CONCERNED CITIZENS’ COALITION PRESIDENT JOINS THREE VICTORIA CONSERVATIONIST WOMEN IN CALLING FOR JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE TO BE SAVED   A letter to the editor of the Times Colonist, printed today in the online and paper numbers of that Victoria daily newspaper, is headlined ‘Phoney consultation on bridge ...
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• SHEILA PROTTI ON REPAIRING JOSEPH STRAUSS’ JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: ’smaller tax burden… less disruption… more efficient process’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  VICTORIA TAXPAYER THINKS R EFURBISHMENT OPTION IS MORE REASONABLE: A N UPGRADED BRIDGE, EARTHQUAKE PROOF, WITH A HEALTHY LIFESPAN   Thanks for presenting the options for the Johnson Street Bridge (Nov. 29). Until now, I have seen little from the City [of Victoria]  about the refurbishing option. ...
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• MARY LOWTHER ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: ‘Ventures as expensive as this one should automatically go to referendum’

  
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  ‘ALTERNATIVES TO REBUILDING THE BRIDGE SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED’   I’ve learned not to rush into things, especially when someone is pressuring me to do so and a lot of money is at stake. Hasty decisions rarely pan out because there isn’t time to look into other approaches that might work better. Take the ...
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• CATHERINE WILLIAMS ON ‘OUR BLUE’ JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: ‘DON’T DESTROY IT’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  People come from all over the world to see our Blue Bridge   because it is a twin cantilever bridge for vehicles and trains, the only one in the world. Don’t destroy it.   Catherine Williams Victoria   CCC BLOG reprint: Victoria Times Colonist : timescolonist.com ‘Blue Bridge one of a kind’ ...
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• WILLIAM PERRY ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: ‘It should have been treated with a greater due diligence + a greater regard for taxpayers, particularly during a recession’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  ‘IT CARRIES A PRICE TAG FAR BEYOND ANYTHING THIS CITY HAS SEEN’   The “Battle of the bridge” report by reporter Bill Cleverley was very well done (Nov. 29). I applaud the Times Colonist for laying out both sides of this debate without bias, leaving it up to the readers to make an informed decision. ...
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• BATTLE OF JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: Concerned Citizens’ Coalition President Gregory Hartnell reminds voters of known costs so far: $84,000,000

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  BILL CLEVERLEY’S FRONT PAGE MONITOR ARTICLE  SHOWS HOW PROVINCE DOUBLED NUMBER OF SIGNATURES REQUIRED TO TRIGGER A REFERENDUM FROM 5% TO 10%   The Battle of the Bridge is heating up, with 38 comments so far at the Times Colonist website on staff writer Bill Cleverley’s long front page Monitor article ...
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• Olympic torch makes rounds in New Brunswick - Times Colonist

  
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  Brazil’s Cesar Cielo, an Olympic gold medal swimmer and current world-record holder in 100-metre freestyle, was one of a new 155 torchbearers who brought the flame 238.9 kilometres closer to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics on Tuesday. Continue .. hoisted hockey’s Holy Grail, but carrying the Olympic torch ...
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• ROB REID thanks Victoria City Councillors Madoff + Young ‘for attempting to slow down council’s present course… over JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE’

  
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  FORMER VICTORIA LIBERAL MAYORAL CANDIDATE SAYS  ’TO BLINDLY RUSH AHEAD WITH THE LARGEST EXPENDITURE  IN THE CITY’S HISTORY …WITHOUT A REFERENDUM NOW IS IRRESPONSIBLE.’   Thanks to Victoria councillors Pam Madoff and Geoff Young for attempting to slow down council’s present course with ...
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• FORMER LIBERAL MP DAVID ANDERSON, VICTORIA MAYORAL CANDIDATE ROB REID + COUNCILLOR CANDIDATE BARRY HOBBIS: Liberals join JohnsonStreetBridge.org call for JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE referendum

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  Former Liberal Member of Parliament for Victoria, Honourable David Anderson , joined two Liberal candidates in the recent 2008 Victoria election, Rob Reid and Barry Hobbis , and more than 263 other signatories of an online petition in calling on the City of Victoria to undertake a referendum on the future of the ...
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• BRIAN BELCHER: ‘Enjoy the Olympics, because those who can least afford it are paying dearly’

  
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  SENIOR FACES HUGE CARE COST HIKE   This week, my 90-year-old mother received a letter from the Vancouver Island Health Authority outlining how it was imposing a more “equitable rate structure” on residential care clients to “reduce the burden on low-income seniors.” In her case, the increase equates to ...
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• DICK HAINSWORTH: ‘This silly, self-indulgent, $6-billion Olympic ritual of breastbeating tribalism…’

  
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  POOR, SICK AND NEEDY PAYING FOR THE GAMES   Re: “Torch offered wonderful moments” letter to the Editor, Times Colonist , Nov. 12 I am pleased that the writer enjoyed his Olympic torch run. At about the same time, I spent rather longer — about four hours — in the overcrowded, overworked, understaffed ...
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• MAYOR FORTIN’S REVISIONIST HISTORY OF THE JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: ‘Property taxes will not increase as a result of this project’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  Mayor Dean Fortin’s revisionist history of the Johnson Street Bridge in this morning’s Times Colonist comes a day before Victoria City Council is about to debate whether to push through a ‘counter petition’ process, in a vain attempt to circumvent a proper referendum on the still contentious issue. That ...
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• DAVID VICKERS, R. I. P.: ‘Vickers has always been guided by a strong social conscience,’ says Judge Tony Palmer, his law partner

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  OBITUARY Ex-Supreme Court judge fought homelessness   David Vickers advocated for B. C.’s most vulnerable, in and out of court   Just five weeks ago, David Vickers took part in Project Connect, an event to help people who are homeless and raise awareness about the issue. As the former B. C. Supreme Court ...
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• CATHERINE TURNQUIST: ‘If disabled children are no longer a priority, then neither is civilization’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  DISABLED CHILDREN MUST BE A PRIORITY   A small delegation of parents went to the legislature recently to present the premier with a bunch of balloons. The gesture was meant to remind Premier Gordon Campbell of the special-needs children whose service are being gutted by budgetary constraints. Although the group ...
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• DANIEL AITKEN SHOULD REMAIN IMPRISONED FOR LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE: Convicted of Samir Shamoon’s manslaughter, Alexander McLean’s + Adan Merino’s murders

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  Daniel Christopher Myles Aitken now awaits sentencing for his second conviction for murder, that of Alexander James McLean at Macaulay Point Park   in Esquimalt, according to Louise Dickson.   Mr. McLean had ‘been shot twice in the back of head on October 28, 2003,’ says the caption below a huge mug shot ...
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• PAUL WILLCOCKS ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: ‘A referendum, with specific, detailed questions, would allow… voters to offer their best judgements’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  ‘SUPPORT OF ONLY 12 % OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS WAS ENOUGH TO ELECT DEAN FORTIN AS MAYOR LAST YEAR’   Victorians should get a chance to vote on spending $63 million to replace the Johnson Street Bridge . A referendum would not just allow the public a say on a decision with financial implications for decades. ...
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• HST Legalized Bribery

  
  The Louis Riel Trail — Authority: 119
  Ive mentioned before that the HST is a handout for business and a system of open and legalized bribery. Check out this article in the Victoria Times-Colonist, which explains how a harmonized sales tax takes 24 million dollars out of the pockets of the school system.
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• DANIEL AITKEN, CONVICTED MURDERER OF ADAN MERINO, FOUND GUILTY OF ALEX McLEAN’S MURDER

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  Daniel Aitken, convicted and presently incarcerated for the murder of Adan Merino, has now also been found guilty by a jury at the Vancouver Law Courts of the murder of another man, Alex McLean. For some strange reason, in their newswire story from the mainland, the Victoria  Times Colonist does not connect the ...
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• ALEXIS PUENTES PLAYS ELEMENT FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2009: Victoria tix: $20

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  Alexis Puentes, one of the Puentes Brothers, now bills himself as ‘ALEX CUBA.’ He is playing Element nightclub tomorrow evening in Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, for 20 bucks. For links to ‘Alex Cuba’ ’s Myspace page, the Element Nightclub website, and an Adrian Chamberlain article ...
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