TIMELINE — 2011 STANLEY CUP RIOT
Surprise ! ... It all started in 1990
But, has it finished yet ?
This editorial makes no apology for what is woven into the timeline. Take your time, read this over
more than once, and open your mind to what could affect us for years to come ...
1990 June - Pacific Northwest Legislative Leadership Forum -
The forum has proposed creation of a technology centre, joint capital pool,
a telecommunications network ... for "Cascadia."
Future of `Cascadia' on western agenda: [Final Edition]
JACK DANYLCHUK Journal Staff Writer. Edmonton Journal [Edmonton, Alta] 04 June 1990.
1993 - Founded in 1993, as the Cascadia Project, Discovery Institute's Cascadia Center for Regional Development is an important force in regional transportation and sustainable development issues.
1994 - Television Media places cameras and crews on buildings — the seduction !
Broadcasting from the building locations, the night before -- advertising the up-coming riot (?), and on game night,
covering the build-up of the crowd the next day, and the riot the next evening. Anarchist cells did not go
down to the riot, because they knew the police wanted their pictures. We just got the pics of drunken goofs smashing
the Starbucks sign. Millions of free advertising dollars for Starbucks on north american television news.
1994 Stanley Cup Riot Vancouver Canada
1997 - Emergency Communications Corporations Act in 1997 a direct result of the 1994 Stanley Cup riot.
1998 - Riot at the Hyatt
"APEC II" — Prime Minister Chretien's visit to Vancouver, and a "bloody clash with police."
1999 - "Quake break: Military and emergency personnel converge on the Island for all-out disaster relief training: [Final Edition]
Murphy, Patrick. Times - Colonist [Victoria, B.C] 10 Mar 1999 ...
The Thunderbird 4[day]/Cascadia Response exercise is the first earthquake exercise involving
the military and provincial and federal emergency teams in a disaster affecting Vancouver Island
and the Lower Mainland."
1997-2002 - Vancouver Police constable Jim Chu reportedly involved in procurement and preparation of E-Comm's operational software ...
2002 - E-Comm operational in Metro Vancouver 911 service ...
"The concept of consolidating emergency communications in southwest British Columbia began in the early 1990s
following a series of international disasters, including the earthquake in San Francisco. These incidents highlighted
the importance of communications when disaster strikes. But it was an event that happened closer to home that
really kicked things into high gear."
"In spring of 1994, hockey-fever captured British Columbia as the Vancouver Canucks advanced to the Stanley Cup final.
Sadly, the team lost in the seventh and deciding game. It was a night that would not only go down in history as
disappointing for long-suffering hockey fans, but also as a night that forever changed the course of
emergency communications in B.C."
"As fans took to the streets to lament the team's loss, so did many trouble makers. The Vancouver police were forced
to call in the Crowd Control Unit and request back up from neighbouring RCMP detachments in an effort to disperse
the out-of-control crowd. Unruly drunks put innocent bystanders in harm's way and downtown businesses fast became
easy prey for vandals and looters."
"In the midst of the chaos, the Vancouver police radio system was unable to handle the amount of radio traffic and
paramedics, firefighters and police found themselves in extreme danger because their radio systems were
not compatible. In fact, emergency responders standing just metres apart, were forced to yell information to
one another over the crowds."
"12 hours later, as the damage was assessed and crews worked overtime to clean up the debris,
emergency service providers knew it wasn't just the downtown core that required re-building."
2004 - Operation Paladin
Army's response plan, Contingency Operations Plan Paladin (COP Paladin) - to refine earthquake disaster response on the west coast.
200? - Translink traffic web cams
— surveillance ! Television traffic reports access cameras — the bribe for setting up the news cameras on roof tops, for the 1994 Stanley Cup riot?
2005 - Simon Fraser University develops a high-tech AMECom communications vehicle, in response (we think) to information gained through Operation Paladin.
The vehicle designed and built to serve B.C. communities was completed in 2005. It can provide advanced communication systems to both urban and remote locations where there has been damage caused by natural disasters.
2007 - Jim Chu promoted to Chief Constable for Vancouver Police Department
2007 - Translink and Cascadia — Cascadia Prospectus
2011 Jan 5 - BC Liberal leadership candidate Christy Clark announced January 5, 2011 that former CTV news anchor Pamela Martin
has joined her election team as chair of membership drive.
2011 May 21 - Headline — "Trouble Bruin" By Soundoff, Vancouver Sun May 21, 2011
2011 June 1 - CBC and the City of Vancouver provide live sites for Stanley Cup viewing downtown Vancouver — the seduction !
2011 June 9 - Province Front Page Provocative Headline ? —
"
Trouble bruin" — Game 5 Friday;
Canucks lose badly again, dropping a 4-0 decision to Boston and levelling the Stanley Cup final
at two games each; NEWS A3-9, 12 SPORTS A58-59 The Province Published: Thursday, June 09, 2011
2011 June 10 - Over-crowding known to Vancouver Police at downtown Vancouver locations ... More than 100,000 hit streets after Canucks beat Bruins 1-0 to takes series lead
2011 June 10 - Vancouver Province Front Page Riot-inciting Headline ? —
" Rock this town " ...
Vancouver hockey fans get ready to " raise the roof " as the Canucks face Boston in a must-win game at home tonight; News A3-11 Sports A70-75, The Province, Published: Friday, June 10, 2011
2011 June 14 - From unanticipated crush crowds at other games to a rapidly escalating amount of alcohol downtown that fuelled fights and arrests,
the VPD was aware of the growing potential for an outbreak of violence at the June 15 final game.
2011 June 14 - Christy Clark — pink shirt day — school-anti-bullying-program-expanding-in-b-c —
Does making this announcement shortly before the Stanley Cup hockey game make sense?
Will Christy Clark's son set the pace for BC kids, and join a junior hockey team that wears pink jerseys?
Hockey-Canada-real-men are well known for being pro-hetero,
pro-white,
pro-beer, and love their women.
And, "let's play hockey" means, no bullying, or we will body check you into the boards!
These are facts of Canadiana that the media does not want to popularize.
The Vancouver Province provided the link between the bullies in hockey jerseys and the youth in pink jerseys ...
Cristy Clark is not taking the time to think her policies through. Election anyone?
Anti-Bullying Day, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christy Clark, pink-shirt-day-founder, Jan 11, 2011
Christy Clark, pink shirt day, Jan 22, 2011
2011 June 15 - Morning Province paper head-line ...
"Canucks fandemonium can cause spectator anxiety: Counsellor" Advance knowledge of riot potential ?
2011 June 15 - Morning Province paper ... "Help us document the biggest game-day ever with your photos"
"The Province has created a group on the photo-sharing site Flickr called "Game 7: A Day in Canucks Nation."
"We invite photographers and Canucks fans everywhere to contribute their photos to the group,
beginning this morning and continuing until late this evening. Wherever you are and whatever
you're doing — stocking the fridge, painting your face, building your own Stanley Cup —
take a picture. Whatever you see when you're out and about, we'd like to see it, too."
What was the Province paper really saying? — There will be lots of anxiety — FANDEMONIOM — so there could be a RIOT ?
What were the editors really thinking? — get caught in the same position as with the '94 riot,
and the police force the media to hand over the news pics ? — get blamed for "ratting out?" — more seduction ?
2011 June 15 - Stanley Cup Riot Vancouver Canada ...
The veteran Vancouver Police Force officers knew. Chief Constable Jim Chu therefore should have known.
The City of Vancouver civic and elected officials should have known.
The media should have known, as damaging media reports were published well in advance to the riot.
The big question is why?
It was reported that E-Comm had four times the amount of normal calls, but despite the existence of E-Comm,
communications between police teams was a disaster! The Vancouver Police Department radio system was unable to facilitate the police plan of action, on the ground,
just as in the 1994 riot. Why E-Comm?
2011 June 17 - the Vancouver Province paper Front Page — Let's Make Them Pay !
2011 June 17 - Premier Clark wants jail time for rioters A hockey mom? —
"let's lynch 'em" mentality? Not stopping to think — "what if my kid was in that crowd?"
2011 June 17 -
I.C.B.C. offers facial-recognition software for the Vancouver Police Department criminal investigation of the Stanley Cup riot — that was fast work.
2011 June 17 -
Premier Christy Clark OK's use of ICBC face recognition software. No reports of breaching the Motor Vehicle Act, or moving violations.
So, how legal is it to access our private files, even if the police do some shopping for "the right judge"
to sign a court order?
2011 June 22 -
Premier Christy Clark has hired former CTV news anchor Pamela Martin to be her new director of outreach.
2011 June 23 - Privacy czar to monitor use of facial-recognition software
2011 June 29 - Vancouver Province front page headline - "MOM BATTLES THE BULLIES" "BOY TARGETTED"
"A furious Burnaby mom worries that the boys tormenting her young son today will turn into
the rioters of tomorrow" JON FERRY, A4 ...
Another headline to distract the readers from the bigger picture. Focus on the few riot trouble makers. Link to the story of bullying in schools --
and the Burnaby School Board anti-homophobic / heterosexism policy 5.45 [original controversal draft] to distract from what the media did to entice the "fandemonium" downtown Vancouver?
2011 June/July ?
2011 ? - The year the Province of British Columbia becomes a surveillance-state?
If I.C.B.C. provides a universal BC identity card — a combined "DRIVERS LICENCE / BC MEDICAL / BC ID SECURITY CARD ?"
The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia then has access to:
- Ministry of Transportation and Highways Motor Vehicle Data Base [ICBC]?
- Department of Vital Statistics Database [VSA]?
- Health Insurance BC Database [HIBC]?
- and, (is this next) Police Records Information Management Environment for British Columbia [PRIME-BC]?
... all linked to the I.C.B.C. Facial Recognition Software system?
Vancouver Sun newspaper: opinion: letters ...
Committing a crime? Your driver's licence could be a witness against you. By Gillian Shaw, Vancouver Sun June 24, 2011 — COMMENTS ...
hirundine
10:26 AM on June 25, 2011
Oh for g-d-sake ....... are we living on some kind of slave planet? It would not surprise me,
if that riot was orchestrated? To put even more draconian laws and measures into place.
All the good people in society do not need their rights taken away for the the doings of
a few bully boys. Any excuse and governments are taking away my rights and burdening me
with more surveillance, each and every day. Oh and spending my tax-dollars to do it.
Signed, innocent in B.C.
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