How much should we pay our politicians?  Who should decide the pay increase?  And how should this process be conducted? These are questions the are asked anytime our elected officials look at their pay structure.  It is easy to be cynical in light of poor leadership (Mayor Young) or the near 29% pay raises our [...]

Do you think one police officer for every 1,067 residents in your City is good?  Or even safe for law enforcement?  Or even effective?  Of course not – but that is what we have in Port Coquitlam. Over the last four years I have discussed at Council meetings and budget input sessions that we have [...]

Today is the inauguration for the 44th President of the United States – Barack Obama. Lots of “hope” and lots of “change” are in the air.  To steal from Penn Jillette – I have not heard so much hype for hope and change since New Coke.  A bit cynical?  Perhaps.  I just do not see [...]

This coming Monday at 5:30pm Port Coquitlam City Council will be having the first three readings on borrowing $25 million for the Coast Meridian Overpass. But you say, “Dave, you are totally awesome, but there is not a scheduled City Council meeting for this Monday so how can this be?”  Well, it is a special [...]

Yesterday an email from the Terry Fox Foundation announced the possibility of an interesting “reality show” type project for next year. The plan at this time is to have two teams of twelve runners start in St. Johns and Victoria on April 12th. Each participant will attempt to run 3,339 miles in 143 days, matching [...]

Complete story from the Vancouver Sun.

Let me explain. At the end of October, former ECCW wrestler, Paul "Leviathan" Lazenby was shooting a movie scene with former WWE Champion Stonecold Steve Austin.  What was catagorized as an "error" resulted in a broken nose for Leviathan when a punch from Austin was not pulled quite enough. In fact, TMZ wrote about it [...]