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New Alberta Energy Regulator CEO was central figure in Saskatchewan scandal
Laurie Pushor's appointment will not help restore AER’s scandalized reputation: MLAs Jennie Russell, Charles Rusnell · CBC News · Posted: Apr 06, 2020 7:00 AM MT | Last Updated: April 6 The involvement of Laurie Pushor in the Saskatchewan scandal should disqualify him from his new position...
HIGHWAY ROBBERY THE REGINA BYPASS LAND SCANDAL HEADLINES
In June 2013, we attended a Public Open Forum on the new Regina Bypass. We discovered that the approved plan had been replaced with a new preferred plan to move the Regina Bypass 400 meters east of Tower Road. This news came to us after we started our business expansion plans in 2010 when we...
OBITUARY TO THE PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN
Let's do a thought experiment; let's say you worked all of your life to get an education, get a job, build a home, raise a family, and start a business. Envision you have plans to expand your business nationally and internationally with proprietary technology, the only machine like it in...
THE GRAND OPENING OF THE REGINA BYPASS AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PREMIER FROM CONCERNED SASKATCHEWAN TAXPAYERS
During the last few years our organizations, ìThe Regina Committee for an alternative Bypass Solution/Why Tower Road?î and ìHighway Robbery, the Regina Bypass Scandalî have focused on many anomalies and inconsistencies surrounding the implementation and construction of the Trans Canada Highway...
ONE YEAR AFTER THE RCMP CLOSED THE FILE ON THE REGINA BYPASS LAND SCANDAL
It has been a year now since the RCMP closed the file on the Global Transportation Hub land deals. On July 25, 2018, Superintendent Paul Segency with the RCMP Economic Crimes Division spoke at a press conference about their investigation into the GTH Land Dealings. Mr. Segency stated,...
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY IS LACKING AT ALL LEVELS
The latest editorial from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has referenced the need for greater accountability and reform to ethical standards at the federal government level. We contend that the same lack of accountability and adherence to ethical standards is present in many jurisdictions...
Gwyn Developments and the Saskatchewan Government
During the course of planning and development, our public sector administrators found themselves in a bit of a dilemma. They had sold land to a local developer which they would later need to accommodate the new Regina Bypass. We can assume that the developer’s position would be to claim that...
A PARADE OF QUESTIONS
As promised, here are some questions that we have been trying to get answered for the last few years. Perhaps more people should be asking them. Maybe if enough of us show an interest in these issues, we might be able to persuade our elected officials to do their duty and provide some...
THE GLOBAL TRANSPORTATION HUB SCANDAL HAS COME FULL CIRCLE
CBC Investigative reporter Geoff Leo exposed the GTH land scandal in February 2016, two months before the provincial election. In his article, Mr. Leo explains how an Alberta Land Baron who rents land to Bill Boyd, then Minister of the GTH, made an offer to purchase four times as much land...
EVERYONE LOVES A PARADE… ALMOST
We waited with eager anticipation to participate in our second Exhibition Day Parade, well really our first. We followed the parade last year after the last car,the Regina City Police. We had a tremendous response, many thumbs up, people hollering, “Yes, you are absolutely right, it is...
WHY IS DEVELOPER'S DIRT FOR THE REGINA BYPASS WORH 80x MORE THAN OTHER'S DIRT
Readers should note that the information presented in the following article is all a matter of public record and can be accessed either through ISC or the Saskatchewan Land Titles office. We offer only the facts as we have collected them and leave the reader to draw their...
B.C. VS Saskatchewan: Who has the higher roadbuilding costs?
If you answered B.C. you were probably thinking logically. After all, Saskatchewan has no mountain terrain, no need for avalanche snow shed protection and reinforcement, no raging rivers to build bridges across, no steep rock faces to reinforce or pipelines to cross. We thought it might...
