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(Honda Celebration of Light) The annual tradition since 1990, spread over three nights in English Bay, sounds like the perfect party in the most-favourable weather period of the year. However, few seem to know how much it costs the public to make it happen. Vancouver city hall says it spends $800,000 on policing, garbage removal and traffic control. All of this money comes from property taxes, the city’s primary source of revenue.

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The lion’s share, $750,000, is for crowd control by the Vancouver Police Department, which deals mainly with alcohol-related incidents and assaults. Teams from Japan (July 29), United Kingdom (Aug. 2) and Canada (Aug. 5) appeared at the 2017 festival, to which the provincial government also contributed $250,000 ($100,000 via the Tourism Events Program and $150,000 from the Community, Sport and Cultural Development ministry). The Honda Celebration of Light is, as a result, a costly event and city hall gets no direct revenue.

The producers of the celebration, production company BrandLive, work for the non-profit Vancouver Fireworks Festival Society. The revenue from sponsorship and its limited ticket sales goes directly back to the event, which costs $2.6 million (including the city subsidy). For those who want a prime view, with a little less crowding, VIP tickets cost $49 for the YVR Observation Deck Bleachers all the way to $5,000 for a business class cabana that holds two dozen. Members of city council and senior managers get special access, where they get to rub shoulders with corporate executives and lobbyists. Raymond Louie was part of the 2017 jury that awarded Japan’s Akariya Fireworks best-in-show.

A May 8, 2017 report to the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation said the event draws an estimated 400,000 per night and boasts “over $40 million annually in incremental tourism and hospitality spending.” BrandLive estimated a $173 million “direct economic” benefit was generated for the city in 2017. While that sum is worth rejoicing, it tends to mainly benefit the restaurants, bars and hotels around English Bay, and does little for an area like Marpole or Chinatown. Vancouverites who want nothing to do with the event are still forking over their property taxes and not gaining direct economic benefit. Moreover, BrandLive has not specified whether the $173 million is additional revenue, so we should consider what the counterfactual revenue is. “The values of the event are based on community, and providing a space, which is free, to unite and connect family and friends,” said BrandLive producer Jessica Prior. But is it really free?

The economic benefit cannot, however, be only calculated in monetary value. The utility of the event was concluded via non-scientific surveys conducted via questionnaires on kiosks set-up near English Bay and Second Beach, and used by a relatively slim minority of the 400,000-a-night. The results: a 9-out-of-10 enjoyment rating, with 82% of attendees planning to return, and 82% saying they would recommend it to friends or family.

There is a possible voluntary response bias. Those who tend to express the views are the ones who either really enjoyed the event, or the opposite. The survey may not be an accurate representation of whether the people in Vancouver want or enjoy the event. The survey was only given to the attendees, who are much likelier to be in favour of the event. The non-attendees (two-thirds of Lower Mainland residents) are, as a result, underrepresented.

Dvdfab Passkey Registration Key. To city hall, there is surely an economic benefit, but only “by assumption,” admits assistant city manager Wendy Au. “This can be considered an economic engine that brings in tourists, visitors, locals to prosper our restaurants, hotels, retail stores,” Au said.

“So, in return all the spending create jobs, businesses, giving the city a good reputation that companies want to come and set up offices here, create employment.” According to BrandLive figures, 17% of attendees are from outside B.C. And 13% from other regions of the province. The event had some influence on drawing 71.5% of out-of-region visitors.

Of those, 60% (about 87,500) said they paid for lodging. It is possible that not all of these attendees were attracted by the Honda Celebration of Light alone, since the city suggests that many came for the annual Pride Festival that follows the fireworks festival. There are also adverse impacts that are often overlooked. BrandLive’s Prior said that the fireworks are approved by the Canadian Explosives Regulatory Division and the smoke is “designed to dissipate quickly.” When we interviewed Au, she said that all events have to be approved in several steps, via the city’s risk management team, the legal department, and fire department.

Fireworks shells that wash-up on the shore are removed from the beaches following the event. Nonetheless, environmental concerns about fireworks displays in general were raised in a study by the U.S.

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. The results appeared in the August 2015 issue of Atmospheric Environment.

Scientists found fine particulate matter — like dust, dirt and soot — rose an average 42% every Fourth of July. Fine particles can lead to respiratory illness, heart disease and stroke. Mayor Gregor Robertson, who lives near English Bay, desires Vancouver to become the world’s “greenest city” by 2020. The city encourages public transit during the event and has sophisticated plans to control waste. BrandLive said there are over 40 recycling stations and 60 additional garbage totes around the event site. However, social media users published photographs during the 2017 festival that showed several permanent streetside receptacles at West End access routes that were covered in plastic for apparent security reasons.

The initial question about the negative air pollution from fireworks remains unanswered. In addition, large-scale city events in the West End, including Pride and the 4/20 marijuana festival, spur complaints from people living around the event site, especially senior citizens and people with mobility issues who are inconvenienced by the road closures. The Honda Celebration of Light is undoubtedly popular, as the biggest non-ticketed festival in Western Canada. Yet much quantitative information is not apparent to the public eye. After examining the statistics and weighing the costs and benefits of this event, Vancouverites can make a more informed decision. Is the Honda Celebration of Light a blast or a fizzle? Debbie Liang, Gurshan Dhaliwal, Faith Marere, Xinhao Guo, Jiwon Lee and Rocky Xie are Economics 210 students at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. Vision Vancouver city councillor Andrea Reimer’s condo was marketed to Chinese real estate investors (VanFun) Her party, Vision Vancouver, has enjoyed control of Vancouver city hall since 2008.

Its three election wins were fuelled heavily by unregulated donations from real estate tycoons who, in turn, benefitted from city council rubber stamps so they could build towers and mansions for rich investors from China. Mayor Gregor Robertson’s party broke its 2008 promise to end street homelessness by 2015, the Olympic city became one of the world’s most-expensive places to live and the rental vacancy rate is a minuscule 0.7%. 14 city council meeting, Robertson, Reimer and the rest of the Vision majority passed a bylaw to regulate Airbnb and other short-term rentals. Before Reimer voted in favour of the $49-a-year business licence scheme, she revealed that she is looking for a new home. “I was a bit amazed by how many owners talked about how hard it is to find renters. As someone who has been evicted for the second time in 16 months, just got home yesterday [from the United Nations climate party in Bonn] to get my eviction notice on the table. Because of speculation and flipping, I’ve been evicted 11 times now in the last 20 years,” Reimer told city council.

“There’s lots of us looking for places to live and many of us are quite good tenants. I’m not making a pitch for any of you to offer me your place, but to say it does occur to me there is a gap here in helping landlords find the tenants they need.” Reimer gave no details about her abode, which she must vacate by February. But theBreaker can tell you that she lives in a penthouse and the eviction was inevitable.

The 770-square foot “penthouse 1” is in a 12-storey tower in the Norquay Village neighbourhood. The condo was assessed at $599,000, but listed for sale in September at $799,000. The listing was even promoted on the VanFun website, which targets Mainland China real estate investors.

Inside Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer’s penthouse. (VanFun) According to the listing, Reimer’s penthouse boasts “stunning panoramic views” in the building developed by Thind Properties. Reimer’s landlord is, according to the property registry, student Michelle Andrea Ko. It is not known what Reimer paid for rent.

She did not respond to theBreaker’s interview request. “This fully air conditioned open plan two bedroom and study and two bathroom offers a large living area,” says the sales shpiel. “Outside, the spacious private 585 square foot convertible patio. Stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, hardwood floors and spacious windows create an outdoor lifestyle that maximizes spectacular views.” Reimer revealed earlier this fall that she won’t run for a fourth city council term in 2018.

Reimer isn’t the only Visionista penthouse-dweller. In August 2015, Robertson overlooking the Haywood Bandstand at Alexander Park near English Bay. It was renovated and featured earlier this year in the. Vision donors include tycoons Peter and Bruno Wall (Wall Financial), Ian Gillespie (Westbank Developments) and Terry Hui (Concord Pacific). The party also shared a bagman with the BC Liberal Party: condo marketer Bob Rennie.. Gillespie’s company is behind the controversial “Fight For Beauty” exhibit at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel and has flogged Vancouver condos to buyers at exclusive events around Asia. Robertson went on an unannounced trade mission to Beijing and Shanghai in early September.

Support theBreaker.news for as low as $2 a month on Patreon. Richmond casino stung by money laundering headlines (GCG) Lawyers for Great Canadian Gaming Corp. Notified the Ministry of the Attorney General and Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner that they will appear Nov. 14 at the Law Courts in Vancouver to ask for a court order. Great Canadian’s Nov. 9 petition to B.C.

Supreme Court says the government plans to release the second phase of documents to a reporter on Nov. Great Canadian contends the government has a duty under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act to consult it before any documents are disclosed. “GCGC will suffer irreparable harm if the phase two disclosure is released without being provided with an opportunity to make the representation it is statutorily entitled to make,” said the court filing by lawyer Louis Zivot. “Once phase two disclosure is released to the public, the disclosure of information harmful to GCGC’s business interests cannot be undone.”, intensified public scrutiny of Great Canadian’s River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond. Postmedia’s Sam Cooper reported that a Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch memo released in the first phase said 135 high rollers from the real estate industry accounted for $53.1 million of cash buy-ins at River Rock in 2015 and that the head of the agency, John Mazure, deemed money laundering at casinos a “viable threat to public safety.” theBreaker was of suspected money laundering at River Rock that was finally released Sept. MNP found that $13.5 million in $20 bills were accepted at River Rock in July 2015 and some gamblers made single cash buy-ins in excess of $500,000 with no known source of funds.

The previous BC Liberal goverment suppressed the report before the May election. NDP Attorney General David Eby appointed anti-money laundering expert Peter German, a University of B.C.

Law professor and former head of the RCMP in Western Canada, to investigate. The Great Canadian court petition says it was given no notice that the MNP report and the other documents would be disclosed, nor did it get the chance to explain why certain confidential information about its business operations should have been censored from those documents. It said the ministry had reason to believe the information would be excepted from disclosure under section 21, the “disclosure harmful to business interest of a third party” clause of the public disclosure law.

The petition says Great Canadian lawyers wrote to the ministry on Oct. 23, asking for no further disclosures until the company is allowed to review the records and make submissions. It claimed GPEB said the ministry would consult it if and when all three parts of section 21 apply: whether the records reveal trade secrets or commercial information; whether information was supplied in confidence; and whether disclosure would reasonably be expected to harm a third-party’s competition or negotiations.

Great Canadian claimed a ministry analyst told it that further phases may be released without consulting Great Canadian, so the company complained on Oct. 31 to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner. It said a delegate of the commissioner initially advised that the ministry was ordered to suspend further disclosure, pending an OIPC investigation.

A different delegate, on Nov. 6, said the commissioner would not prevent the ministry from releasing the second phase of records. Great Canadian argues that OIPC erred by breaching the rules of natural justice and procedural fairnesss by refusing to order the ministry to make no further disclosures until the completion of its investigation. The dispute between Great Canadian and the government appears to have caused a slowdown in disclosing related files sought by theBreaker. And the Attorney General’s ministry delayed the release of internal documents until Jan. The Finance ministry, which was responsible for gambling marketing and regulation before the NDP, referred a request for quarterly anti-money laundering reports to BCLC, which said it would respond or invoke another delay by Dec. Great Canadian Gaming CEO Rod Baker (GCG) Jessica Gillies, the Finance ministry’s FOI manager, refused to tell theBreaker whether officials found the reports in the ministry’s custody.

Eby spokeswoman Megan Harris said they did not. The same day that Great Canadian filed the court petition, it told shareholders that it earned $26.9 million on $159.6 million revenue during the quarter ended Sept. Great Canadian CEO Rod Baker sought to ease the concerns of stock analysts in a Nov. 9 conference call that was dominated by questions about the money laundering scandal.

Baker denied the company is under investigation and maintained that it follows all laws wherever it operates. He said business at River Rock has not been impacted by the money laundering headlines, but neither has the controversy gone unnoticed. “We have guests and other stakeholders that have been asking questions, and fair enough on them, if they’re reading things like this,” Baker told analysts. “And we’ve properly informed our team members to address those questions in a thoughtful manner, as we have done, I think in a very diligent and transparent fashion through our extensive release on Oct. 23.” River Rock is undergoing renovations to add 140 slot machines and new food and beverage facilities. The number of slot machines was temporarily reduced between 100 and 200 during the quarter.

While wagering increased at River Rock during the quarter, table hold fell. “Our guests are happier this quarter than our shareholders, for sure,” Baker said. “We’ve seen these kind of fluctuations quarter-to-quarter and we’re not particularly happy about it, other than I just said the guest side.” Great Canadian’s stock price hit $35.15 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Sept. 15 after the Ontario government chose it and Brookfield Business Partners the previous month to operate three casinos in Greater Toronto, including one at the Woodbine race track.

10, the day after the quarterly report, Great Canadian stock closed at $29.71. Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives wanted the governing Liberals to delay the deal with Great Canadian pending the results of German’s investigation.

A spokesman for the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario said it is in contact with GPEB in the wake of the B.C. “The AGCO is conducting its own review to determine what reporting or other obligations the AGCO may require from Great Canadian Gaming,” said AGCO’s Ray Kanhert. “As well, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Bureau within the AGCO is working with the RCMP for information it may have to share.” Support theBreaker.news for as low as $2 a month on Patreon. By on Scribd by on Scribd.

Epta Properties was supposed to redevelop the former Royal Canadian Legion hall site in Burnaby Heights. (Mackin) Jeff Woolson, executive vice-president of CBRE’s golf and resort group, declined to comment, other than to say the land “is under contract.” A year ago, to build a five-storey, mixed-use building with two-dozen condos on the former site of the 1955-built, branch 148 hall. It was supposed to be completed in summer 2015 and called Centro, with a brand new Royal Canadian Legion canteen for war veterans and their friends and families to sip, socialize and play darts. Epta, which is the Greek word for seven, never put a shovel in the ground. North Burnaby’s Royal Canadian Legion, suffering from declining membership and increased competition for beer sales, chose Epta to redevelop the site in 2013.

Epta paid the Legion’s $145,000 tax bill through the end of 2014. The company also took a $3.1 million loan on the property, but later claimed $2.82 million in costs, including a $700,000 “development management fee.” Epta got bogged down in its own financial problems and developed nothing for the Legion. Instead of suing Epta or giving it more time to begin construction, Legion members voted to sell the property to Beedie Development Corp., even if that meant the canteen plan would fall by the wayside.

The vacant 4356 Hastings lot is surrounded by poorly secured Super Save construction fences. Coast Mountain buses, zoomed east toward Willingdon, displaying the “Lest We Forget” message on the eve of Remembrance Day. A small pond, containing a discarded sofa, has formed among the weed and shrub-riddled ruins of the legion hall. Centro was supposed to be one of three Epta projects in Burnaby Heights. Madison (4301 Hastings) and Montage (438 Gamma) were the other two. Madison was completed in controversy. Epta’s two partners — Carey Siddoo’s Beta Properties and Steven Bosa’s SMB Holdings — sued at the end of September 2016. They alleged Epta, its related company Apollo Management Group, and president Bill Tsakumis and his sons/vice-presidents Angelo, Alex B.

And Chris Tsakumis committed breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty and unauthorized borrowing. (left), Chris, Angelo and Bill Tsakumis (Epta). Contacted on his mobile phone on Nov. 9, Angelo Tsakumis said he was busy and would call theBreaker back.

No such call was received before deadline on Nov. Tsakumis did not respond to interview requests. Their cousin is former media commentator Alex G.

Tsakumis, the CEO of Trigate Properties Group. Reached by phone in the U.S., he emphatically distanced himself from Epta. “Trigate is an entirely separate company from Epta with absolutely no overlapping interests or directors, not now or in the past,” Alex G. Tsakumis said.

“The two companies couldn’t possibly be more different in vision or capacity. We have never had anything to do with Epta Properties, and we will never have anything to do with Epta Properties — ever, period.” Beta and SMB’s statement of claim said Madison should have shown a $1.9 million profit, but instead had $737,148 in loans owing.

The statement of claim said there were $17.7 million in sales, but $521,000 in debts, liabilities and obligations. The Epta defence statement said the development recorded losses in 2014 and 2015 and the cost of sales was $18.24 million. Epta denied funds from the development partnership were forwarded to or used by the Epta-related cranberry farming company, Apollo.

4, 2017, Best Personnel filed a statement of claim for $65,000 plus interest against Epta and 1089330 B.C. Over money owing from Epta’s Montage. Epta-developed Montage in Burnaby (Mackin) The lawsuit said Best agreed to provide Epta workers for between $19.95 an hour (general construction labourers) and $34.95 an hour (carpenters), but “Epta has refused or neglected to make payment, despite demand.” Epta sold Montage in October 2016 to 1089330 B.C.

Ltd., a numbered company whose CEO, Toby Chu, and two other directors are executives with CIBT Education Group, the parent company of Sprott Shaw College. Court Services Online shows Epta has been a party to 40 court actions in British Columbia — 24 of which as the defendant — since 2008. One of the civil cases involved the insolvency of Apollo, which started in 1985 as a Greek wine importer and morphed into a major cranberry grower for industry leader Ocean Spray. Apollo bought 184 acres on Barnston Island in 1989 and leased the land to Opus Cranberries from 1994 to 2007, when Apollo bought Opus and nearly 100 more acres on the unincorporated Fraser River island west of the Golden Ears Bridge. David Emri, who owns more than half the island, favours rezoning from the Agricultural Land Reserve to industry, for logistics or warehousing. In 2014, while Epta was immersing itself in Burnaby Heights, Apollo defaulted on loan payments and receiver FTI Consulting Canada was appointed.

Court filings show that during a seven-year period, Apollo advanced $5.9 million from its cranberry farming cashflow to related parties, “with the majority of the advances made to Epta Properties Ltd.” “As a result of the related party loan advances the company was unable to make its loan payment to Farm Credit in November 2013.” Farm Credit issued a default notice in December 2013, but agreed to waive the breach for a year to allow Apollo to reorganize. That was short-lived. Apollo failed to make its next scheduled loan payment to Farm Credit in February 2014. The court documents also say that Apollo arranged a $4 million loan from First West Credit Union, “however, the residual funds were advanced by Apollo to Epta resulting in the company being unable to pay the scheduled quarterly payments to Farm Credit Canada in August and November of 2014.” Farm Credit demanded repayment in January 2015.

Cranberry farmland on Barnston Island formerly owned by a company related to Epta (Cushman Wakefield) Apollo owed $23.626 million to secured creditors, primarily Farm Credit ($17.3 million) and First West ($4 million). In July 2015, Apollo reached a deal to sell the land, buildings, equipment, permits and contracts to D.R. Barnston Holdings Ltd. For $24.875 million, with a Feb. 11, 2016 closing date. Sometime between Nov. 3 and 7, however, FTI quietly removed the Apollo listing and related documents from its insolvency cases website without notice or explanation.

Several older, dormant or completed insolvency cases remain on FTI’s public website, however. When contacted by theBreaker, FTI’s Vancouver managing director Craig Munro would not comment on the removal of Apollo. “The terms of this proposal were fulfilled and there are no outstanding matters,” Munro said by email. Support theBreaker.news for as low as $2 a month on Patreon. Evergreen Line construction site in November 2015 (Mackin) British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure said it didn’t put a $3.24 million contract for an Evergreen Line bus loop and parking lot to public tender for the sake of efficiency. Government policy states any construction contract worth $100,000 or more must be advertised publicly and subject to competition, unless only one contractor is ready or able to do the job or time does not permit public tendering. Change order logs for the $1.43 billion SkyTrain extension obtained by theBreaker say a request was made in April 2013 to spend more, so as to make a temporary Port Moody bus loop and parking lot permanent.

The contract change with scandal-plagued was approved in October 2013. According to a statement sent to theBreaker by the ministry’s spokesman, Ryan Jabs, the government “realized the contractor could modify their current construction activities and complete the final loop and parking (with curb and gutter, street lighting and final paving). “This saved the cost of finishing the temporary facility, eliminated the extra costs for mobilizing a separate contractor, and avoided a delay in completing the permanent facility,” the transportation ministry statement said. The additional cost for the bus loop and parking lot was the biggest line item in a list of $11 million in changes that the BC Liberals fought to keep secret before and after the May election. The dollar figures were censored from the documents that were originally released in early 2016 under the freedom of information law. On July 26, the week after the NDP’s John Horgan was sworn-in as premier, a government lawyer said there was no legal reason to withhold the dollar figures from the public.

SNC-Lavalin, which held the main $889 million contract for the Evergreen Line, remained opposed. An adjudicator with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner finally ordered full disclosure on Oct. TheBreaker can now tell you about these additional costs for the Evergeen Line. Additional Evergreen Line work to fix sinkholes by Seaview in Port Moody in October 2015. (Mackin) • More than a million dollars extra was spent on changes for utility conflicts with Telus ($860,128) and BC Hydro ($363,891). The ministry said utility mapping was provided before the contract was awarded, but the drawings from land owners did not always reflect the final as-constructed location; • Guideway parapet noise barriers were installed for $777,197.

The ministry said this was not included in the contract “because the discussions with the cities and the community were still ongoing at the time the contract was tendered.” • Flagging at Seaview ($306,916) and minor roadworks and paving changes ($327,901); • Retaining walls at Port Moody Inlet Centre station ($278,637) and the Burquitlam propulsion power substation ($193,361). “In both cases, the province determined these walls were necessary after construction was already underway, and it was more cost efficient for the contractor to install the walls while the power stations were being built,” said the government statement; • Another $378,980 was spent to remove hydrocarbon contamination from Hoy Creek, after Coquitlam Park and Ride extension construction led to pollution from an old auto wrecking business. • The province also spent $148,214 on attaching public art to infrastructure because, it said, community public art committees that selected the art were set-up after the contract was signed. The ministry said $19 million was spent on changes for items not included in the original contract and $17 million on unanticipated items.

It finally opened Dec. 2, 2016, yet, the government still claims the $1.43 billion project came in $79 million under budget. On opening day, Premier Christy Clark cut the ribbon, with Port Moody-Coquitlam MLA Linda Reimer and transit and taxis minister Peter Fassbender. MLAs Richard T. Lee (Burnaby North) and Doug Bing (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows) also attended. The transit megaproject, however, did little to help the BC Liberals remain in power. Reimer, Fassbender, Bing and Lee lost their seats to NDP opponents on May 9.

The Green-supported NDP minority toppled the Clark government in a June 29 confidence vote. Clark resigned as leader and MLA the next month. SNC-Lavalin’s Jeff Spruston (LinkedIn) Why was there an 18-month legal battle over Evergreen Line costs, when another high profile infrastructure project isn’t keeping secrets? Contains proactively released invoices from contractors PCL Constructors Westcoast and MMM Group.

While BC Liberal leadership candidate Todd Stone was Clark’s transportation minister, the government claimed disclosure of the cost of contract changes would harm both the government and SNC-Lavalin financially. Government lawyer Troy Taillefer informed the OIPC and theBreaker on July 26 that the new government dropped opposition to disclosure because there was no legal basis for maintaining secrecy of costs. Various legal orders have held that the public has a right to know about contracts negotiated between governments and companies that supply goods and services to governments. SNC-Lavalin project manager Jeff Spruston claimed, in a 97-word submission to an OIPC inquiry, that “disclosure of any of our pricing information (commercially sensitive information) will inform our competitors of some of our pricing details and may compromise our competitive advantage. “We are presently bidding work similar to the Evergreen Line Rapid Transit Project in at least three other active procurements within Canada,” Spruston wrote. 12 order, OIPC adjudicator Meganne Cameron rejected SNC-Lavalin’s pleading as “vague, speculative and unsupported by evidence.” She ordered disclosure of the records by Nov.

But the NDP government delivered them almost a month early, on Oct. Spruston did not respond for comment.

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Emergency, in more ways than one, at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. “’Would you recommend NRGH as a good place to work to a favourite niece or nephew just finishing training/university?’” Almost universal response of ‘NO!’” said the Nov. 6 presentation by Denver consultancy Vector Group Inc., which was obtained exclusively by theBreaker. “Numerous people in several parts of the hospital volunteered that they’ve instructed their friends/families to take them elsewhere (the mainland) for care if they get sick.” The presentation said that, in Vector’s opinion, the hospital’s culture is “past the tipping point.” “From all indications Nanaimo Regional General Hospital is failing significantly in regard to managing people.” Vector CEO Bob Carleton and COO Gary Craig delivered the initial findings of their three-week assessment on Nov. Two days later, on Nov.

8, employees were briefed. A source told theBreaker that Carleton and Craig said NRGH is one of the three-worst organizations they have ever dealt with.

“The simple act of continuing with daily operations exacerbates the toxicity of the culture,” said Carleton and Craig’s report. “This situation is not sustainable and will, in due course, lead to some form of self-destruction.

However—it is very fixable in relatively short time frames with sustained and focused effort.” The litany of criticism continued. Basic trust between people doesn’t exist at all levels. Instead, there is suspicion, fear and often loathing that predominates thinking about administration.

“NRGH maintains an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty. Dod Discharge Review Program Special Spd Kc Royals on this page. Advancement is about who you know, not about performance. People feel the reality is clear; NRGH is headed downhill and nothing will ever change.” The study found the hospital has a toxic culture that disrespects and devalues people, and is focused more on budget than employees’ well-being and patient care.

BC Liberal MLA Michele Stilwell cuts Nanaimo hospital’s 50th anniversary cake with Island Health chair Don Hubbard (VIHA). “Maintaining an atmosphere of fear, bullying, intimidation, retaliation and censure that prevents people from raising questions, issues or concerns. Placing high value on cronyism and nepotism in recruiting, hiring and promoting.” A 10-point “culture summary” said managers spend more than 80% of their time on paperwork, people are the least-valued commodity in the system, pride and willingness to help each other is rare and, when present, is viewed suspiciously.

“Accountability does not exist, other than the fact you may be blamed for anything at anytime. [She or he] who blames first wins. Keep your head down, say nothing, raise no issues or uncomfortable questions and you will not be noticed—which is the best you can hope for.” The presentation suggested an eight-point way forward, including moving rapidly in rolling out the controversial iHealth records digitization with effective computer-based training, fixing the holidays and vacations scheduling problem, and communicating quickly with staff on study findings. “Authority figures must take responsibility for improving the situation and announce a clear action plan with timeframes for moving ahead. Include some form of ‘Yellow Card’ program to facilitate constructive discussion between management and staff during times of conflict or failure to live up to the values.” In September, the Ministry of Health ordered Ernst and Young conduct an independent review of Island Health’s 18-month old iHealth paperless records system.

Doctors complained the $174 million system is an error-prone, time-consuming boondoggle. Island Health hired Vector for $150,000 on an 18-month contract after 19 companies responded to a request for proposals early this year, said NRGH clinical operations director Damian Lange. “The report itself has been difficult for many to digest and take in,” Lange told theBreaker in a Nov.

“It’s taken us many years to get where we are locally and it’s going to take us some time to get out of here.” Asked if there would be any immediate personnel changes, he said: “This isn’t necessarily about one, two, three or four people, this is a systemic reflection, this has been many years in the making, culminating in the harsh reality of this report.” Health Minister Adrian Dix said “we’re very interested and very concerned.” “I mean, when a report describes the culture of a hospital as toxic, we have to take action,” Dix told reporters in Victoria. “My expectation, active expectation, will be that actions are taken to improve that, because ultimately, it’s the people who work for us, who are very important to us, and patient care, which is very important to us.” Support theBreaker.news for as low as $2 a month on Patreon.

By on Scribd. From the Composite Public Affairs website. The retired Surrey-Green Timbers MLA is representing the non-profit consultancy First Nations Financial Management Board.

The only target contact on her Oct. 26 registration is Indigenous Relations Minister Scott Fraser. “Their mission is to provide the tools and guidance that will help First Nations communities build their confidence and capacity around financial management and reporting,” said Hammell, who. “They’re stationed in B.C., but they work across the country. I hope we manage to get a lot of people to know what great work this group does.” In September, former NDP tourism and parks minister Ian Waddell registered to lobby Attorney General David Eby for the B.C. Wine Institute and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth for the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries.

In mid-October, former environment minister energy minister Michelle Mungall and finance minister Carole James for Woodfibre LNG. Hammell is the first to go from the opposition benches last spring to a lobbyist this fall, a move which remains legal in B.C. The Eby-tabled lobbying reform bill includes a two-year, post-employment ban for cabinet ministers, their aides and senior bureaucrats.

There is no restriction for ex-MLAs. “If you’ve been in government and the Legislature for 22 years, you get to know a lot of people inside and outside government,” Hammell told theBreaker. “But that doesn’t mean that I know more than people who have been working either supporting businesses or working with government.” Hammell is executive vice-president of Surrey-based Composite Public Affairs, which was formed before the Greens joined the John Horgan-led NDP to topple the BC Liberal government in a confidence vote in late June. One of the Composite founders, Lori Winstanley, left to become Mungall’s top aide in July. She now works under Farnworth. Horgan, flanked by Woodfibre LNG lobbyist Sihota (left) and ex-Premier Dan Miller, of the pro-industry PR campaign ResourceWorks (Facebook) at Composite’s Hammell-promoted, Oct.

27 Vancouver Convention Centre event. They were both forced to cancel after theBreaker. It was Horgan’s chief of staff, Geoff Meggs, who kiboshed the scheduled keynote speeches, according to an Aug. 22 memo obtained under freedom of information by theBreaker. “It has come to our attention that a new public affairs company is seeking to recruit ministers as speakers at a private, ticketed event intended to give attendees special insights into the policies of the government,” Meggs wrote.

“It is not appropriate for ministers to attend such an event. “Speaking on public policy matters may be appropriate at an event called for a broader purpose — for example a convention of health care providers or a business organization — if the ticket price relates to the conference objectives of the organization, rather than access to decision-makers. Normally, such events are open to the media as well. “It is not appropriate at an event which may be construed as privileged access in a setting where the subject matter relates entirely to government relations or the sponsoring organization is focused primarily or exclusively on government relations.” Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation figures show Hammell’s 22 years as an MLA are worth an $87,420 annual pension.

While Hammell said her priority is caring for her ill husband, John Pollard, she hopes to take on more lobbying clients “whose mission aligns” with her values. She said she doesn’t discuss Composite business with her daughter, Horgan’s director of communications, Sage Aaron.

“I have no intentions of ever putting her in a place where she has to defend my behaviour,” Hammell said. “It’s just not going to happen.” Support theBreaker.news for as low as $2 a month on Patreon. By on Scribd. Bob Mackin Heather Pederson wonders if Pressy Lake residents will ever get the answers they are owed about why the B.C.

Wildfire Service didn’t stop the Elephant Hill wildfire from devastating their community. The massive fire started July 6 near Ashcroft, and scorched a 100-kilometre path of destruction, before arriving Aug.

12 in Pressy Lake, 30 km east of 70 Mile House. There, it burned 24 outbuildings and 33 of the 71 houses. Pederson, a law enforcement officer from Chilliwack, said her family’s cabin survived, but she has actively searched for accountability through Freedom of Information after officials refused to answer by other means. Pederson joins a growing number of British Columbians — like, — who are speaking out after B.C.’s worst wildfire season. “It’s hard to see your community going through what they’re going through,” Pederson told theBreaker. “While as fortunate as we are, not everybody’s in the same boat.

Overall there’s quite a sense of loss for everyone.” Her parents, who spend April to November at the cabin, were evacuated July 29. They were among those assured by members of the Comox fire department working for BCWS that pumps and sprinklers would be installed to protect the buildings. “They went around cabin-to-cabin, they spoke to other residents, they had a plan,” she said. “All their hoses and pumps were in place at the forestry campsite at the end of the lake.” Four days after the fire roared through, photos of properties posted on Facebook showed nothing had been done to water the buildings.

“You could see there wasn’t a pump, there wasn’t a hose, there wasn’t a sprinkler.”. A fire destroyed house and truck at Pressy Lake (photo submitted) Pressy Lake’s Sheena Wilkie expressed her frustration about the summer spell of poor communication in a September letter to Premier John Horgan. “Despite hundreds of calls, emails and messages, we were given no information and it didn’t seem like they even knew we were there,” Wilkie wrote.

“At every turn, we have been stonewalled and stymied.” Instead of answering questions, agencies referred them to FOI. “We need to know if anything was done to protect our homes, and if not, why wasn’t it?” Wilkie wrote. “These are reasonable questions. Questions that taxpayers should not have to jump through hoops to get an answer to.” Pederson filed two FOI requests: one for Forests Ministry records about structural protection units at Pressy Lake and another for wildfire investigation reports from the Office of the Fire Commissioner. Pederson said she was met initially met with resistance.

Fraser-Nicola BC Liberal MLA Jackie Tegart challenged NDP Citizens’ Services Minister Jinny Sims in Question Period on Sept. 21 to overrule the bureaucrats who asked Pederson to withdraw those requests.

Pederson had been told it would be difficult and there were internal investigations. Sims had vowed to expedite information for those affected by the wildfires. Nearly a month later, on Oct. 16, Tegart quizzed Sims about the unreasonable delays that meant Pederson would be waiting until at least the last day of November.

“Delayed by months. The opposite of expedited,” Tegart said. Insult to injury: Pressy Lake called “Prissy Lake” in government report (FOI) Sims said investigations were in progress, but information would be released as soon as permitted by the RCMP.

Pederson eventually got 500 pages with a pledge of more to come. (Some of those documents are below). Most of them, however, aren’t relevant to Pressy Lake. Most of the documents were about billing for water bomber flights, weather forecasts and fire suppression activities in the nearby communities.

It did include a handwritten assessment for Pressy Lake and an incident commander’s journal entry that referenced Pressy Lake. Adding insult to injury, however, is an Aug. 14 situation report that called it “Prissy Lake.” On Oct. 27, Kamloops Fire Centre manager Rob Schweitzer issued a memo to Pressy Lake residents. He offered condolences, but not apologies.

Schweitzer wrote that a structural protection specialist had been deployed there on July 27 with a crew. They were deployed not by his office, but by the Cariboo Fire Centre to respond to another fire burning out of control north of Pressy Lake. “The assessment of Pressy Lake area was never completed as [Jim Lake wildfire] was contained on July 28 and these resources were redeployed to another fire,” Schweitzer wrote. A structure protection specialist was deployed to Pressy Lake on Aug.

8, but the statement offered no more details. By on Scribd.