On the move!
Agh! You’re still here? My new site and weblog, ianking.ca is now up and running; new posts are building up over there, never to be mirrored here. Go! What are you waiting for? All the stuff worth keeping has been migrated over to the new server, and I don’t anticipate making any more posts here.
Bloggers and webmasters: Update your links! Simply replace vancouverscrum.blogspot.com with www.ianking.ca in your blogrolls or bookmarks to point to the new site. Old posts will remain on this server for as long as the people at Blogger/Google allow them to remain; unfortunately, I’m not going to bother to come up with any way of converting permalinks on this blog to their corresponding posts on the new site. Yes, I plead laziness. I also realize the irony of switching away from Blogger just it starts to add features that the demanding blog nerds insist upon.
Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!
—Ian King, December 13, 2004
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Good ol' Vern Campbell. The ex-cop turned politician keeps on getting the headlines, but not necessarily for the right reasons. Last weekend, Campbell, who is running for city council on the conservative NPA ticket, tried to challenge COPE mayoral candidate Larry Campbell (no relation) to an unscheduled debate at Larry Campbell's campaign office.
As it was, Larry Campbell was at a previously scheduled forum, debating his main mayoral rival Jennifer Clarke (of the NPA.) So Vern Campbell, who invited the press along to watch him try to debate Larry Caqmpbell, ended up just making a scene by crashing another party's campaign office.
This isn't the first embarassing moment in this campaign for Vern Campbell. Last month, at a press event, Vern Campbell tried to demonstrate how easy it is to break in to a car. He took eight whacks with a tire iron with no success. However, that was just a stunt gone wrong.
What is more disturbing about Vern Campbell is that he has been sending different messages to the English-language and Chinese-language media in Vancouver. To the English-language press, Vern Campbell has said that he is in favour of the harm-reduction component of the city's drug strategy. He's sent quite a different message to the Chinese-language press; he says that he's dead-set against the use of safe-injection facilities as part of the drug strategy. It's an attempt to curry favour with the members of the Chinese-Canadian community, who are the core of the opposition to the so-called "four-pillar approach" to drug abuse. Which story is the truth, Vern?
But hey, he's backed by the Chinese Benevolent Society, the hospitality industry's lobbying campaign, and several prominent members of the Vancouver Police Department.
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