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As people in Quesnel are looking for local news stories regarding the 3rd Censure Motion against Quesnel Councillor Sushil Thapar....

The Quesnel Cariboo Observer reports that they will cover the 3rd Censure Motion debate on Friday but in the meantime, Observer Editor Autumn MacDonald wrote a editorial missive about complaints on the Observer's coverage of the whole Thapar vs Quesnel Council debacle...

In the meantime, if you agree with Autumn MacDonald that the whole situation around Thapar & Quesnel Council is out of control... see below on how you can contact each of the 6 Quesnel City Councillors' and Quesnel's Mayor (contact info courtesy of the City of Quesnel website):

Quesnel Mayor Mary Sjostrom -  Email: msjostrom@quesnel.ca

Phone her at City Hall at 250-991-7477, home at 250-747-2924 or by cell at 250-991-9192.

Quesnel Councillor John Brisco - Cellular: 250-991-9262 E-mail: john.w.brisco@gmail.com

Quesnel Councillor Mike Cave - Cellular: 250-316-0536 E-mail: mikecave@shaw.ca

Quesnel Councillor Ed Coleman - Cellular: 250-255-9034 Email: edcoleman.quesnel@gmail.com

Quesnel Councillor Scott Elliot - Email: scottquesnel@gmail.com

Quesnel Councillor Laurey Roodenburg - Cell: 250-255-5394 or via e-mail atl_roodenburg@yahoo.ca

Quesnel Councillor Sushil Thapar - Phone 250-992-5494 or by e-mail  thaparquesnel@gmail.com

From today's Quesnel Cariboo Observer:

If I had my choice, I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast -- William Tecumseh Sherman

We do not make the news, we report it

And yes, that means, at times, gauging the "news worthiness" of a story. In the face of the Thapar VS Quesnel Council gong-show, we at the Observer felt it apropos (concerning) to gently remind our respected readerswe report, we record, we print

That's it!

In this paricular instance of the on-going Quesnel City Hall saga, we asked ourselves if we would travel the arduous path of covering the seemingly unlimited supply of accusations

The answer was yes

Basically, it was we run it all, or we run nothing. That was, quite simply, not an option

This newspaper is a record of the community and even if it makes our amazing little town look like it's run by a bunch of bumbling infants, this publication could not ignore the fact a Quesnel City Councillor was accusing Quesnel's Mayor of stealing

It was said in a public domain and repeated - a number of times

This publication did not ignore Quesnel Council's decision to censure Thapar on not one but three occasions (the third being at last night's (Mon July 19th) Quesnel Council Meeting, see Friday's Observer for more)

Had we ignored Thapar's original accusation, we would have ignored his subsequent comments, Quesnel Council's reaction and City backlash

Not exactly an accurate portrayal of what's happening, is it?

Are people sick of hearing about it?

Surely, they have to be, but tell them (Quesnel Council). They're the ones creating the fodder. If at the July 16th Quesnel Council meeting, they decided to hug it out and move forward, we would have reported that

Instead, there were accusations, swearing and general ridiculousness.

If you think it makes the City of Quesnel look bad, tell them (Quesnel Council members') that

We simply report