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* Beloved Dr. Hoffe Testifies

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Those who’ve been following this blog, and earlier incarnations, including Connecting the Dots, which were slow information paper newsletters, know that Dr. Hoffe is a beloved doctor here in our region. His courage and integrity standing up the tyranny, censorship and abuse of medical consent during the COVID scamdemic cost him dearly. There is much to say about this good country doctor but one image will suffice. He’s the kind of man who, when he receives a call from a patient during dinner, after dark, will leave the dinner and drive off into the inky black night on a lonely road through mountains as big and majestic as the Alps. He deserves every medal of honour that our wounded, damaged, degraded society should bestow but will not…not until everyone wakes up to the global crimes that were committed by big pharma.

Here’s his testimony at the recent Allison Inquiry.

* Flammable Chemicals and Wildfires

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How wise or compassionate is a provincial government that funds reckless chemical experiments in the atmosphere over a region experiencing massive wildfires?? That’s what the BC government did–they funded a start-up called Skyward Wildfire with $1 million.

In July, the Fire Chief of Summerland, BC, told a CBC reporter the Bald Range wildfire doubled in size so fast firefighters could do little but order over 12,000 residents to flee. “The fire exploded,” he said. CBC’s Johanna Wagstaffe said, “I’ve never seen anything like this as a meteorologist.” During California’s deadliest-ever fire season in 2018, their exasperated Fire Chief told reporters the “fire behaviour has changed, the fires are exploding.”

When we hear the word “exploding,” we can point directly at the chemical industrial complex. Every year, for well over fifty years, flammable chemicals particular to geoengineering are sprayed into earth’s atmosphere. 

The Piper should look familiar to people in this region. For months, a yellow one has been flying into Lillooet with a Lidar bubble on its belly. It circles around and around, from various altitudes, for 30-45 minutes, then flies out again. Local municipality does not know what it is.

Billions and billions of pounds of chemicals that are hostile to lightning, fire, water and fire-fighting—not to mention human health, the entire ecosystem and all its lifeforms—are dumped into the air we all need to breathe. 

When we research Material Safety Data (MSD) sheets—the respected, globally-harmonized standard of chemical reporting—this is what we find: 

  • Aluminum Particulate: “reacts violently and/or explosively with water, steam or moisture.” 
  • Barium: “Contact with water releases flammable gases which may ignite spontaneously.” 
  • Sodium Chloride: “avoid excess heat and exposure to moist air or water or will explode”. 
  • Sulphur dioxide: “may explode if heated.”
  • Silver Iodide: “excess heat is a condition to avoid—no data available for explosive limits.” Potassium Chloride: must be “kept away from heat or sources of ignition.” 
  • Calcium Carbonate: “may explode when heated, should not be released into the environment.” 
  • Aluminum Strontium: “should not be released into the environment. Do not allow product to reach ground water, water course or sewage system.” 
  • Manganese: “keep away from heat, sparks or open flames.” 
  • Titanium Oxide nano-particles: “must be kept away from open flames and sources of ignition.” 
  • Aluminum oxide: “avoid excessive heat.” 

They say they’re doing this in order to “cool the planet”. They’ve blabbed on about reducing CO2. They’ve terrorized us for years about global warming. 

Now this latest story is they’re spraying chemicals in order to manipulate where lightning strikes. Sounds to me like some fools with big-fat money are suffering from a big-fat God complex.

It’s time for us to start connecting the dots. We’re the ones living in harm’s way—every year wildfires get bigger, more volatile, and greater in number; climate emergencies are, to a large extent, being manufactured, or ‘geoengineered’.

It’s time to disassemble the climate crisis narrative into its component parts. And one integral part is that ‘geoengineering’ brings in $5 TRILLION per year for the chemical industrial complex.

More details here in my just-published article in Druthers, Canada’s hardest-working independent newspaper with well over 150,000 subscribers and countless more readers online.

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* AI Lies by Telling Half-Truths?

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Despite already knowing the answer, a few weeks ago I asked AI if geoengineering was being done in southern BC. Proof positive that AI can lie like a thief: “chemtrails are conspiracy theory and misinformation”, what people see are “contrails due to all the airline traffic today.”

When I asked again, like the thief who can’t get his story straight, AI spat out this backhanded, double-negative-styled sort-of confession:

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In the battle between Contrails vs. Chemtrails, it appears that Logic wins. If chemtrails are conspiracy theory and what we see in the sky is engine exhaust from planes, then when the sky is completely clear, no planes can be flying. Correct?

Tough luck, folks. If you plan to buy a plane ticket, doublecheck that the planes are flying that day. If skies are clear, it means they aren’t flying. Sorry about that, apparently airplane rules have changed.

This ‘contrail’ is strange, no? Why did it suddenly disappear like that? Did the pilot have to turn off the engine all of a sudden? Or, did the engines quit!? OMG. I sure hope not. Didn’t hear a peep on the news about a plane going down, I sure hope everyone on board made it out alive.

Carrying on with slaying with logic. The remote area where I live is not near, or beneath, a busy plane corridor.

When they aren’t making chemical grids above our head we might see or hear four jets per day.

I guess we’re supposed to believe that some days we are suddenly close to an international airport. That is not plane activity, that is not natural cloud formation, that is a chemical grid being laid out.

Liars never get their story straight. No surprise, turns out they are doing chemical experiments in southern BC. Skyward Wildfire, a start-up funded by the BC government, is “testing whether spraying specific particles into storm clouds can stop lightning strikes from hitting dry forests and starting wildfires.” Their website, slick with black graphics and little scientific detail, explains that “a small, precise amount of lightning reduction material is released into the storm.” Note the language hiding chemical names: “spraying specific particles” and “lightning reduction material.”

Strange coincidence. On August 22nd, 2026, a hot Saturday night, southern BC was pummelled by 7000 lightning strikes within 2 hours.

Stay tuned for more slaying with logic.

* Lillooet Skies Poisoned

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For the sleepy-heads unaware that our region is heavily sprayed with toxic, flammable chemicals touted to help with climate change. They call it ‘geoengineering’ but, really, it’s sky poison and much of the world has banned it. Here in Canada we allow it. Since the chemical industry makes $5 TRILLION per year from chemical sales, it’s a safe bet someone in the nation’s power elite is heavily invested.

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Gardeners like myself who spend lots of time in close contact with plants and soil notice that trees and bushes will suddenly look scorched around the edges, as if they’ve been shocked.

People who live and work in remote areas are noticing that spruce and fir trees are starting to die. They are turning orange the way the pines did. The pine beetle was blamed for the die-off but the huge chemical grids they spray in the sky above us require a tremendous amount of moisture to activate the chemicals, which means a theft of moisture from the eco-system. Did their climate experimentation take into consideration the effect of transpiration on the root systems of trees? Perhaps the pines were weakened by chemical saturation in the soil, which allowed the pine beetle to attack. Are the chemicals making drought?

See the geoengineering article here which details the reality of chemtrails. Our region, because it’s the hottest area of Canada, is under a heavy chemical spraying experimentation program. Look up Skyward Wildfire.

I’ve been closely observing the sky here for several years, ever since I first heard about the fact of geoengineering. Two years ago this is what it looked like. The chemical industry started off with linear experimentation, single chemtrails.

Gradually the experimentation has increased. That means new and bizarre cloud formations. I call this one ‘applying the chemical corset’.

The atmosphere does not make ramrod-straight lines. This is our first evidence of atmospheric interference. Look closely at the edges of the chemtrail. See all the chemical reactions happening? It looks like a string of nodules.

This ugly monster must be delivering a large payload of chemicals, or, the atmosphere is reacting in a massive way to a chemical injection.

As time went on, the experimentation was becoming more aggressive. The linear lines were turning into grid patterns.

Do the chemical bros name their handiwork? I guess this would be a chemical waterfall.

This is not clouds. This is chemical chaos.

* Wildfires. A letter sent to all BC Municipalities

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From: S. Troy Anderson, Concerned Citizen, Researcher, Published Writer

Sent: August 28, 2026

To: Mayors and Councils, All BC Municipalities, UBCM, BC Fire Chiefs

Subject: Exploding Wildfires and the Urgent Need to Stop Chemical-Induced Weather Experiments

To All it may concern,

Another summer of communities evacuated, 1000s of people losing their homes, massive fires burning out of control, smoke-filled air for weeks and months. Tremendous resources—human and financial—go into fighting fires that become larger, more volatile and greater in number every year. The strain on families, communities, business, tourism, health, and taxpayers is excessive. We’re continually told the crisis is due to climate change but this is not the whole picture. 

Recently, a Fire Chief told a CBC reporter that the Bald Range wildfire near Summerland doubled in size so fast that firefighters could do little but order over 12,000 people to evacuate. He said the fire “exploded”. CBC news presenter, Johanna Wagstaffe, said, “I’ve never seen anything like this as a meteorologist.” Back in 2018, during California’s deadliest-ever fire season, their exasperated Fire Chief told a reporter the “fire behaviour has changed, the fires are exploding.” And it gets worse. We’re now seeing fire tornadoes and on the weekend of August 22nd over 7000 lightning strikes! 

This must be our call to action. It’s time to question why billions of pounds of flammable chemicals are sprayed into earth’s atmosphere every year—for over 50 years—and how this is contributing to exploding wildfires, extreme weather events, and other problems.

They call it ‘geoengineering’. Mexico has banned it. Seven American states have also banned it. Lawmakers in over 30 states are in the process of criminalizing atmospheric manipulation or climate intervention. Legislative bills are currently wending through the U.S. political system: New Jersey’s Bill 4161 “seeks to ban the release of hazardous chemicals for geoengineering”; North Carolina’s Bill 362 “amends environmental laws to bar intentional chemical releases for weather or sunlight manipulation”; Montana “prohibits releasing chemicals to alter weather or sunlight intensity”; Florida is “protecting natural weather patterns.” 

According to their Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), the flammable chemicals being sprayed fundamentally conflict with fire, water and fire-fighting: Aluminum Particulate “reacts violently and/or explosively with water, steam or moisture.” Barium: “Contact with water releases flammable gases which may ignite spontaneously.” With Sodium Chloride, “avoid excess heat and exposure to moist air or water” or the chemical will explode. Sulphur dioxide “may explode if heated.” When using Silver Iodide, “excess heat is a condition to avoid—no data available for explosive limits.” Potassium Chloride must be “kept away from heat or sources of ignition.” Calcium Carbonate“may explode when heated” and “should not be released into the environment.” Aluminum Strontium “should not be released into the environment. Do not allow product to reach ground water, water course or sewage system.”Manganese: “keep away from heat, sparks or open flames.” Titanium Oxide, which are nano-particles, “must be kept away from open flames and sources of ignition.” Aluminum oxide: “avoid excessive heat.” And more. 

Canada has no domestic laws prohibiting chemical experiments involving solar radiation, weather modification or climate intervention. What we have is a Canada/U.S. Weather Modification Treaty, formed in 1975. (Verification documentation at the end of this letter). Canada’s only oversight over our skies is the toothless Weather Modification Information Act which politely asks only to be informed of what’s already been done. See UBC’s Bertram Research Group website for their active involvement in the region.

It must be noted that climate geoengineering makes $5 trillion in sales for the chemical industry every year. They sell both the flammable chemicals that can cause explosive fires and the dry chemicals they advise are “suitable for extinguishing” them. MSDS for flammable chemicals have pages and pages of missing data: “toxicological properties have not been fully investigated.” Effects on human health: “no information available.” Product flammability, burning rate, or explosion limits: “no information available.” Ecological information: “no information available.” No data for chemical stability or reactivity. After more than 50 years, there’s no information pertaining to downsides and negative effects? Or is that information being hidden?

We all know the history of industries claiming their products are safe and harmless, then it turns out they’re not. Thalidomide, big tobacco, and opioids are three of many examples. Corruption repeats—as do reaction patterns. When harms become evident, industries typically ignore, deny, explain away, and cover up; vested interests and profits are prioritized. Nothing changes until dedicated researchers and whistleblowers expose the facts to the people, who then organize and demand change. It’s not our fault if we didn’t know, or if we trusted and believed what they told us. But it is our fault if we learn the truth and kick the can down the road. 

We need everyone to share information, band together, call for government transparency, and demand a moratorium on chemical climate experimentation. The upcoming UBCM conference would be a good opportunity. You are our best defense. You can protect our health, our lives and livelihoods, our communities, our firefighters, our clean and clear atmosphere, our land and waterways, our shared future. 

Thank you for your honourable service and your attention to this urgent issue. Links to primary sources, documentation and high quality research listed below.  

Respectfully,

S. Troy Anderson

Lillooet, BC, V0K 1V0

Email: theLillooetGazette@gmail.com

Primary Source Documentation for Verification and Research 

Type or Copy/Paste into the search bar of your preferred Search Engine (Google, Firefox, Safari, Brave, etc)

1975 Weather Modification Treaty between Canada and U.S.  

Canada Weather Modification Information Act 

Bertram Research Group: UBC Chemistry Department

Material Safety Data Sheets and the chemical name – MSDS and Aluminum Particulate

State-level geoengineering bans: Florida, Montana and Beyond

Is geoengineering pushing us into climate chaos

Geoengineering Watch has been documenting this for over 20 years. See their excellent documentary, Hacking the Planet: the Geoengineering Reality

Chemtrails Exposed is a database of photos of climate experimentation, uploaded to the internet from concerned citizens all over the world.

Center for International Environmental Law Expose the Dangers of Geoengineering on Substack

EPA Releases New Online Resources Giving Americans Total Transparency on the Issues of Geoengineering and Contrails

Controversial Geoengineering Test Quietly Launches Salt Crystals into Atmosphere

*Lillooet Municipal Election Soon

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Below is a copy of a letter sent to Lillooet Council (and all councils in the UBCM) from Philip Perras, in June, 2026. If there are awards handed out for the Most Informed Concerned Citizen, Perras deserves one. His concerns are our concerns.

From: Phil Perras

Sent: June 1, 2026 7:14 AM

To: ubcm@ubcm.ca

Cc: Multiple Recipients

Subject: A Warning to Municipalities: False Independence, Special Advisors, and Local Democracy

Dear Mayor and Council,

I am writing again as part of an ongoing province-wide municipal conversation about accountability, democratic oversight, public safety, and the growing risk that senior governments may be using “independent reviews”, special advisors, emergency systems, police-aligned consultants, media narratives, housing mandates, and cost-downloading to centralize power away from local communities.

Over the past year, I have written to municipalities about E-Comm, RCMP contract policing, Crown disclosure burdens, civil forfeiture, environmental contamination, mental-health crisis response, school policing, housing interventions, and the need for municipal unity.

The recent developments involving School District 61 (SD61) now show why these themes belong together. The developments involving the Greater Victoria School Board are not simply a school board story. They are a warning to every local government in British Columbia.

SD61: A WARNING ABOUT FALSE INDEPENDENCE

The SD61 trustees were removed after standing by their decision to end the School Liaison Officer program and pursue student safety through civilian-led, evidence-based alternatives. That decision followed extensive consultation and aligned with serious concerns raised by the BC Human Rights Commissioner about the impacts of police in schools. Yet the public narrative repeatedly framed the board as unreasonable, ideological, or unwilling to collaborate. Now, after court proceedings and the release of text messages and emails, that narrative has been badly damaged. The Province has agreed to quash the order removing the trustees and reinstate the elected board.

The documents that came to light reportedly included communications between senior Ministry of Education staff, a special advisor appointed to SD61, and senior police officials. Some of those communications included derogatory comments about trustees, protesters, and the BC Human Rights Commissioner. A senior police official reportedly described a senior Ministry official as a “key player” after the board was removed. This should concern every mayor and councillor in British Columbia. 

The issue is no longer whether SD61 was simply difficult or ideological. The issue is whether a democratically elected local body was pressured, smeared, and removed through a process that lacked genuine independence. The same people and systems publicly claiming to act for student safety now appear connected to communications that raise serious questions about impartiality, professionalism, and democratic good faith.

The phrase “independent review” can no longer be accepted at face value. Independence must be proven. If a special advisor has authored prior materials supporting the system under dispute, that must be disclosed. If a consultant has financial or professional ties to the policy being promoted, that must be disclosed. If senior government claims a local body is failing to collaborate, the public should be shown exactly what that means, with evidence. Otherwise, “collaboration” becomes coercion by another name.

THE ADVISOR MODEL IS NOW A MUNICIPAL GOVERNANCE RISK

The SD61 case should cause every municipality to re-examine the growing use of special advisors, housing advisors, official trustees, independent reviewers, and provincially ordered reviews.

Housing supply is real. Public safety is real. School safety is real. Emergency communications are real. But real issues can still be used as entry points for centralized control if the process lacks transparency, conflict disclosure, and local democratic safeguards. A special advisor can be helpful. A review can be necessary. A housing target can be legitimate. But each can also become a governance-risk event if it is used to frame a local government as deficient, isolate elected officials, justify structural change, or prepare the public to accept further provincial intervention.

Once an advisor is inserted, the local government may no longer be operating in a normal political environment. Internal disagreements can become evidence of dysfunction. Media coverage can become reputational pressure. Staff-council tensions can become public narratives, and in some cases may be amplified, exploited or even manufactured. Structural changes can be presented as routine modernization. Then an election arrives after the terrain has already shifted. Municipalities should therefore treat every provincially ordered advisor process as a democratic-risk event requiring careful documentation, clear boundaries, and peer support from other local governments.

UNITY, RESTRUCTURING, AND ELECTION-CYCLE RISK

The SD61 board’s real offence appears to have been that it did not collapse under pressure. The trustees stood together, raised funds, went to court, and defended democratic process rather than accept a public narrative that cast them as reckless for doing their job. In doing so, they gave students and the community a powerful lesson: evidence matters, rights matter, and democracy is worth defending even when powerful institutions try to make that difficult. That unity mattered.

It is also why the change to SD61’s electoral model must be examined carefully. A trustee electoral area model, or ward-style model, can be legitimate in principle. Local representation matters. But timing and context also matter. In this case, the move toward a new trustee electoral area model followed the removal of the elected board and took place while an Official Trustee was in place. 

Municipalities should therefore ask whether this change was made only to improve representation, or whether it also reduces the likelihood of another unified board standing together against provincial, police, or consultant pressure. Municipalities should not reject trustee electoral areas or ward systems out of hand. But they should insist that such changes never be used as punishment, retaliation, or a quiet method of fragmenting democratic unity after elected officials refuse to comply with a centralized narrative.

The upcoming municipal election cycle gives this issue added urgency. Even lawful changes can have political consequences. Even ordinary bylaws can alter power. Even legitimate housing concerns can become leverage if used to justify broader intervention without sufficient transparency.

Municipalities currently dealing with special advisors, housing advisors, official trustees, independent reviewers, or similar interventions should support one another now. This is especially important where local “drama” begins to emerge around a council, mayor, staff relationship, procedural dispute, public-participation conflict, or governance restructuring.

When media commentary focuses heavily on personalities, tone, blunt comments, walkouts, procedural conflict, or interpersonal drama, councils should pause and ask whether the public is being shown the full structural picture.

  • What power is being shifted?
  • Who benefits from the shift?
  • What checks and balances are being reduced?
  • Why now? What role does provincial pressure play in the broader governance climate?
  • What is being reported, and what is being left out?

A local government facing a provincial adviser should not be left alone to determine what is normal, excessive, or politically dangerous. Municipalities should compare notes, preserve records, share experiences, and develop professional strategies for protecting local democratic accountability.

WHEN MEDIA NARRATIVES BECOME GOVERNANCE TOOLS

The SD61 case shows that media narratives can become governance tools. A public body can be framed as ideological, dysfunctional, unreasonable, or unsafe. Guests can repeat vague claims without being asked for evidence. Local leaders can be turned into symbols of disorder. Public confidence can be weakened before formal decisions are made. By the time an intervention occurs, much of the public may already be conditioned to accept it.

This is not about shielding elected officials from criticism. It is about ensuring criticism does not become a substitute for evidence, and that personality-based narratives do not distract the public from governance changes with long-term consequences. Local leaders should not wait for perfect information before defending fair process. When a public figure is being smeared, especially where police-linked institutions, media amplification, or senior-government pressure may be involved, mayors and councils can still say: show the evidence, disclose the communications, declare the conflicts, and stop using reputation as a substitute for proof.

When media coverage appears one-sided, residents and local leaders can ask for corrections, request balanced coverage, engage media standards bodies where appropriate, and support independent reporting that asks harder questions. When public officials are attacked without evidence, communities can demand specific examples rather than accepting vague claims that someone was “difficult,” “uncooperative,” or “problematic.” That is how a community stops a smear campaign from becoming policy.

THE SAME PATTERN ACROSS DIFFERENT ISSUES

This connects directly to the issues I have raised in previous letters. When ten South Island municipalities stood together against unfair E-Comm downloading, they demonstrated that unity can force accountability into the open. When municipalities question centralized emergency communications, they are asking who controls public safety, who pays for it, and who answers when the system fails.

When communities face RCMP contract-policing structures where local democratic oversight is limited, they are asking whether local residents can meaningfully govern the services they fund. When Crown disclosure burdens created by senior institutions are downloaded onto municipalities through new staffing pressures, municipalities are entitled to ask why local taxpayers should pay to solve administrative bottlenecks they did not create. When environmental contamination concerns are hidden behind federal or provincial control, municipalities are entitled to ask whether public health is being protected or managed through silence.

And when tragedies occur — whether in Saanich, Lapu-Lapu, Tumbler Ridge, or elsewhere— municipalities are entitled to demand evidence before blame, transparency before narrative, and structure before scapegoating. The common thread is accountability.

PROTECTING THE VULNERABLE BEFORE HARM OCCURS

Accountability must also include how communities respond when vulnerable people are smeared, disbelieved, isolated, or left without protection. In my earlier letter regarding potential collusion concerns in Kamloops, I described a situation involving a vulnerable woman connected to a home where police and bylaw, according to the RCMP, had more than 100 calls for service over several years. I warned that she had reached out for help, that she was being exploited during a serious medical and family crisis, that stolen goods and disorder were accumulating, and that a serious incident could occur if police continued to turn a blind eye.

That concern was not abstract. One incident that had been described in the attached RCMP correspondence involved stolen property reportedly being tracked by GPS to the home. Police attended, spoke with apparent residents, left without immediately recovering the stolen item, and later returned after stolen goods had been placed in a bag at the end of the driveway. In the context of more than 100 calls for service, this raises a serious question: if that situation did not trigger a warrant application, surveillance, escalation, or stronger coordinated intervention, were police in Kamloops trying to turn a blind eye? What threshold were they waiting for?

Later, someone died at that home. The state’s response then appeared to shift toward civil forfeiture, investigating victims, and painting the vulnerable homeowner as the problem rather than asking why meaningful protective intervention had not occurred sooner. The vulnerable woman was further charged in relation to stolen goods, despite the broader context suggesting she may have been exploited by others. I was also investigated by local municipal police in relation to the incident and later charged with harassing communications after trying to explain my side of events during calls that police had invited, then repeatedly disconnected without meaningful reason or explanation.

That situation is not identical to SD61 or to any local governance dispute. But it is connected by a shared moral failure: powerful systems can appear to tolerate harm while it grows, then act quickly to protect themselves once the consequences become visible. The same pattern can appear in public life. When a woman in elected office is subjected to a sustained reputational attack, local leaders should not wait until a court vindicates her before asking whether the public narrative is fair.

Nicole Duncan and the SD61 trustees were not proven reckless by the public narrative against them. They were vindicated after standing together through it. The board did what educators are supposed to do: they resisted tribalism, protected students, acted on evidence, defended democratic process, and refused to let social sorting decide whose safety mattered.

Smear campaigns are not only reputational attacks. They are governance tools. They teach the public who is allowed to lead and who is to be treated as disposable. They discourage others from running for office. They make vulnerable people quieter. They make honest leaders more isolated.

Former Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell also raised concerns years ago about the way police and media narratives were used against him while he was in office. Whether one agrees with every claim made in that case or not, municipalities should now be able to see the pattern more clearly: local leaders who challenge institutional power can be stigmatized, mocked, isolated, and reframed as the problem.

The SD61 revelations should change how every council responds to that tactic.

A CALL FOR MUNICIPAL SAFEGUARDS

I am not asking municipalities to reach criminal conclusions today. I am asking you not to wait until a court has to force the truth into the open before recognizing the pattern. Every municipality should now review its relationship with provincial special advisors, external consultants, police-linked safety experts, housing advisors, and so-called independent reviews. This is especially urgent for local governments already dealing with provincial intervention, policing disputes, emergency-service downloading, housing mandates, environmental concerns, school-board disputes, or governance reviews.

At minimum, municipalities should consider adopting the following safeguards:

Require full conflict-of-interest disclosures from all provincial special advisors, housing advisors, consultants, safety experts, review-panel members, and organizations presented as independent experts. Require written mandates for any special advisor or provincial appointee, including clear limits on authority, reporting obligations, communication rules, and public transparency requirements.

Request preservation and disclosure of communications between all senior officials, agencies, consultants, special advisors, housing advisors, and external stakeholders involved whenever local democratic authority is being challenged. Refuse to treat police-linked, consultant-linked, or politically connected organizations as neutral simply because they are described as “experts.”

Use UBCM and regional tables to share experiences with special advisors, independent reviews, cost-downloads, provincial pressure tactics, housing mandates, and media narratives used against elected officials. Establish a shared municipal protocol for special advisors and provincially ordered reviews, including intake procedures, communication logs, conflict disclosures, council briefings, public updates, and peer support from other municipalities that have already experienced similar interventions.

Demand a fully independent public inquiry or review into the SD61 process, including Ministry communications, police communications, advisor independence, consultant conflicts, the role of Safer Schools Together, and the decision-making that led to the removal of an elected board. Develop community standards for responding to reputational attacks against elected officials, especially women, senior citizens and other leaders who may be targeted through stigma, mockery, or vague allegations instead of evidence.

Identify leadership skills in the community and encourage credible local leaders, educators, advocates, workers, parents, and residents to run for municipal and school board office so that communities are not left dependent on insider networks or recycled institutional narratives. Support mentorship between experienced and new candidates so that fresh faces can enter public life without being isolated, smeared, or captured by existing power networks.

CONCLUSION: THE REAL PRICE IS BECOMING VISIBLE

The upcoming municipal election cycle is an opportunity to strengthen local democracy before more damage is done. Fresh candidates should be encouraged. Experienced leaders should mentor them. Councils should speak with one another openly. Communities should ask who is defending local authority and who is quietly accepting centralized control.

The SD61 trustees have shown what democratic resilience looks like. They stood together under extraordinary pressure, and they were vindicated. Municipalities should honour that example by making sure no local government, school board, or elected official is ever again isolated and over-powered through hidden coordination, reputational attacks, or the misuse of supposedly independent processes.

This is not about left or right. It is not about one school board, one municipality, one ministry, or one mayor. It is about whether democratic institutions in British Columbia still belong to the people who elect them. It is also about whether communities are willing to protect the vulnerable before harm occurs, not only express regret afterward. That includes vulnerable homeowners, victims of exploitation, families in crisis, students affected by school policing, women in public life, and elected leaders who are smeared for refusing to comply with institutional pressure.

Bad actors rely on tribalism. They rely on communities dividing quickly, judging quickly, and abandoning people before evidence is known. The SD61 trustees and their supporters taught the opposite lesson. They showed that unity, evidence, and courage can defeat a false narrative. That is a lesson worth carrying into every council chamber in this province.

British Columbians already pay some of the highest costs for housing, energy, insurance, policing, emergency services, and basic survival. But the deeper price is now becoming visible: loss of democratic control, weakened trust, endangered children, vulnerable people left unprotected, and public institutions that appear more focused on protecting themselves than protecting people. That price is too high.

Municipalities remain the closest democratic institutions to the people. That gives you both a burden and an opportunity. By standing together, demanding transparency, defending fair process, protecting vulnerable people, sharing information about special advisors, and refusing to accept false independence at face value, you can help restore public trust before more harm is done.

Thank you for your service to your communities, and for your continued attention to these issues.

Respectfully,

Philip Perras

Victoria, BC

V8T 4S9

* Paper Newsletter on Hiatus

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I’ve been asked why the Lillooet Gazette newsletter, in paper format, is on hiatus. The easy answer is after 18 months I need a break and some time to refocus and recharge. Each one-page issue costs nearly $700 (printing and Canada Post charges) and though money has been offered I don’t accept donations since that could compromise my ability to speak freely and/or exert expectations/influence over editorial choices.

The complicated answer to the question is that it’s lonely out on the edge. As other citizen journalists will tell you, most of the time you’re going blind, which requires endless internal motivation, not unlike faith. When you’re working online you can see your stats, how many views and visits, how many followers, how many comments, etc. But paper format is different. You gather information that you know is important, you publish and distribute it as best you can, then pray it makes a difference. 

A screenshot of one issue.

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How much difference it makes is debatable. The reality is, many people (too many) are chained to mainstream “news” and are oblivious to what’s happening. They just want to believe that those in power are good and carry on living their lives. I don’t blame them; acquiring knowledge takes its toll, there’s a sacrifice involved. I know because I’m living it. Six years ago I sat in front of the TV news and believed every word they said. Then, one auspicious day, it was like I had a bag ripped off my head and I realized I had to stop trusting. Gradually, with lots of research, I learned that they were betraying us, either unwittingly or by design. And by “they” I mean, the so-called elites and all the institutions they own and control, including the dinosaur media. The extent of lies and corruption is breathtaking and stinks something fierce. Learning how the world really works is hard on the soul. And very destabilizing.

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But knowledge gradually brings inner growth and strength. It’s crucial to be able to see clearly and not be numb and dumbed down. They’re adept at keeping us brainwashed, confused, exhausted and obedient. The only way out—and a great way to regain your mental health—is to yank our attention away from mainstream media. We have the internet, it’s still easy to find high quality sources of information from the people with integrity who have our backs. Many of them are highlighted here in this blog. 

I’ll continue working and posting articles and I’ll continue to carefully watch what’s going on in Council and what the town’s administration is doing. As we all know, sunlight is the best disinfectant; without public oversight or media spotlight the people who manage things can lose perspective. The demise of the historic Bridge River Lillooet News (83 years!) started by the infamous, irascible, truth-loving Margaret (Ma) Murray came as quite a shock. And it’s a dangerous time to be without a newspaper.

For those of us trying to raise awareness and doing the hard work on behalf of everyone else, it’s best to remember the wise words of anthropologist, Margaret Mead: Never doubt that a small group of committed and thoughtful citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. 

*Demise of historic Bridge River Lillooet News?

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Quick, important note from the Feb. 3, 2026 Council Meeting

Joni L’Heureux, Chief Financial Officer (she’s back, FYI): “Community charter outlines the District’s requirement for advertising, public notices, rezonings, elections notices, things like that have to be published in the local newspaper two consecutive weeks. Recently, the availability and reliability of the Bridge River Lillooet News has been questionable. So being proactive about this, particularly because we have an election year coming up that will require a lot of public notices. We’ve drafted an alternative public bylaw [#2026-035].”

Alternative means of publications being put forward: REC center notice board and Facebook. Council briefly discussed bringing in a municipal app but the CFO said the cost of doing so would be prohibitive. Another place to post community information ought to be the Post Office. This blog will try to help by posting important information here. There will be more discussion at the next council meeting on Feb. 17th.

Here’s the notification that was inserted into the Jan. 15th, 2026 newspaper.

Notice to Readers and Advertisers

Regretfully, it will be necessary to pause publication of the Bridge River Lillooet News for several weeks while a series of technical issues is attended to. A malware or other hacking incident late last year has triggered cascading system failures and it’s simply no longer possible to find work-arounds while subsequently trying to fix these problems and continue to publish a newspaper every week. 

I don’t take this decision lightly; it’s a tremendous privilege and also responsibility to publish the Bridge River Lillooet News every week. That said, it’s irresponsible, at this point, to try to continue until the situation is properly in hand. It’s simply impossible to provide reliable service to readers and advertisers under these circumstances. 

I apologize for the inconvenience this will cause, and look forward to returning to regular publication as soon as it’s possible to do so. All subscriptions will of course be extended for all missed deliveries, and then some. 

Thanks for your patience and understanding. 

Dennis Stranack, Publisher

Bridge River Lillooet News

January 15,2026

* KICLEI UPDATE

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Regular readers will recall the Gazette report that CAO McCulloch agreed to have a conversation with KICLEI’s Maggie Hope Braun. It was hoped she would inform him about sneaky globalist plans: climate action disguises systematic dismantling of democratic governance to weaken municipalities. Unfortunately, as soon as KICLEI was making some headway, it was attacked by the McMedia, in particular the National Post, which maligned and smeared using falsehoods, a common silencing tactic these days. Braun refuted the falsehoods but the stress took its toll. Long story short, for now, no conversation with the CAO. 

Braun reported: “At the FCM [Federation of Canadian Municipalities] conference, an ICLEI session labelled our message as “misinformation”. When councillors asked for a response to our documented concerns, ICLEI refused—saying even acknowledging our questions would “give them attention.” Let that sink in. “Elected officials are being told not to examine questions of jurisdiction, consent, or cost—because the answers might empower their communities. But it’s not working. Across the country, councillors are stepping up. 

“In Alberta, our issues became election issues. We are breaking through. And they know it. Wheatland County the Town of Vermilion and others withdrew from FCM, setting a precedent for others to follow. Lethbridge challenged PCP/IPCC targets, recommending a 20% GHG reduction instead of 40%–saving $63 million in projected carbon credit costs. In B.C., we exposed the truth: the Net-Zero Action Charter frameworks are voluntary, not mandatory. That opens the door for respectful withdrawals and local debate. 

Reflecting on 2025 challenges, Braun said, “If you’re feeling burnt out or behind—so am I. But none of us are alone. Every email, delegation, and conversation you had this year helped lay a foundation for something powerful.” 

kiclei.substack.com

* Update: Next Generation 911 

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from Whitney Webb, Investigative Journalist, author of One Nation Under Blackmail.  www.unlimitedhangout.com

Regular Gazette readers will recall LG’s NG911 recent article which reported on Lillooet’s CAO pursuing this new technology and the “free money” being given to those who adopt it. My research revealed the high risk of loss of privacy and rights, invasive surveillance, the militaristic language being used, as well as shadowy players located in the Bahamas. This update broadens that article with information gleaned from Chris Hedges’ interview of Whitney Webb on the Chris Hedges Report on YouTube—a pointed and important discussion about more of the nefarious motives for the so-called “upgrade” to 911 services.

Webb: “NG911 isn’t just about emergencies, it’s about hoovering our data for predictive policing (“predpol”): who’s used 911 in the past, who’s likely to use it in the future. Companies are cropping up to control 911 Emergency Call Centers across the U.S,” Webb said. 

One such company is Carbyne. From Wikipedia: Carbyne “develops advanced emergency communications solutions, focuses on providing real-time video, location and data transmission to enhance emergency response systems worldwide.” This is the translation: “Real-time” means your cell phone is connected to the grid 24/7/365, no privacy, too bad so sad. “Worldwide” means the centralization of all human data and the advancement of one world government and top-down controls by anonymous sociopaths who don’t live here. Extreme surveillance is at hand, people. But, as my research revealed, the current 9-1-1 will still be available, at least for the time being, so when they come knocking, selling you on how great this new NG911 is, scaring you with potential emergencies, touting the incredible benefits for your “safety and well-being”, shucking and jiving about ‘new and improved’, just say NO. 

Other folks have been keeping an eye on this issue, including Philip Perras, the mayor of Pender Island. He’s been sending lengthy letters to all municipalities in BC, including ours. The following is an excerpt from his December 2025 letter:

Systemic Accountability Failures and the E-Comm 911 Review

Two reports were released:

“These issues are not isolated. The independent EY review of E-Comm 911 completed in September (released publicly on November 7) — confirms what municipalities have been saying for years: the system lacked clear governance, financial controls, and meaningful oversight. EY found that accountability effectively stopped nowhere, with unclear authority, unpredictable levy increases and no contingency fund for emergencies — the very business they are in.

“The first identified major operational and budgeting failures and issued 25 recommendations, including stronger financial controls, a stakeholder-management framework, and a review of E-Comm’s 23-member board, which currently includes no Vancouver Island representation — despite Island municipalities being required to absorb downloaded levies. The second report outlined four possible service-delivery models and emphasized that the province’s role in emergency communications must finally be defined.

Importantly, while the Province had promised an independent review back in December 2024, it was the unity of the ten South Island mayors — standing together on the Legislature steps in January 2025 to protest the downloading of 911 costs — that forced the issue into the political foreground and ensured the review could not be quietly sidelined. Their public stance made it impossible for the Province to downplay, delay, or dilute the process, especially after years of unresolved concerns despite municipalities having been notified of the impending cost shift as early as 2019. For years, E-Comm operated on trust rather than transparency. The EY findings now confirm what local governments had been warning all along: accountability was missing, oversight was weak, and only municipal unity made the truth impossible to ignore.”