Bill Tieleman

Bill Tieleman - candidate for a City Council nomination for TEAM For A Livable Vancouver - is one of BC's best known strategists, political analysts and communicators. Photos not endorsements of candidacy. Bill has been Communications Director in the B.C. Premier's Office and at the BC Federation of Labour. Bill owns West Star Communications, a consulting firm providing strategy, communications and government relations services for labour, business, non-profits and government.

Bill Tieleman - Your Next Guest Speaker!

Bill Tieleman is one of BC's best known political commentators and communications experts - and he could be your organization's next guest speaker.

Bill is a provocative, humorous and experienced public speaker who has addressed a wide range of organizations and business groups on BC, federal and municipal politics.

Bill also conducts seminars about effective communications and government relations.

Contact Bill if you are looking for a guest speaker for your next event.

RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

BC Medical Association
Communications, Energy Paperworkers BC Council
Federation of Post Secondary Educators
BC Teachers Federation
International Association of Business Communicators - Vancouver
Canadian Labour Congress - Nanaimo
Canadian Labour Congress - Prince George
Vancouver Quadra federal NDP - Vancouver
Thompson Rivers University - Kamloops
IBEW Local 258 - Surrey

Bill Tieleman's coverage of the Basi-Virk/BC Legislature Raid Case praised by other journalists:

"This outstanding piece of journalism, in The Tyee, is the work of a journalist who has been deeply involved with this issue from the start and this article should be passed on as far and wide as possible."

- Broadcaster/columnist Rafe Mair on Bill Tieleman's "Hung Out To Dry" post-trial summary

"Bill Tieleman from 24 hours . . . . If you want to know about this trial and about this case, you have to read his blog – I mean, that’s just all there is to it – it’s required reading if you want to understand the BC Legislature Raid situation."

- Mike Smyth, columnist, The Province

"The Basi-Virk case....you’ve probably sat through more of these hearings and gone through more of the files and written about it than any other journalist in the province."

- Bill Good, host, The Bill Good Show, CKNW/Corus Radio Network

"Tieleman ...has done a first-rate job covering the trial."

- Paul Willcocks, columnist, the Victoria Times-Colonist

"Tieleman, who marries a considerable journalistic talent with one of the smartest political minds in the province, has been writing more web-exclusive material. And his coverage of the Basi-Virk trial is a must-read -- whether you're an insider or an outsider."

- Sean Holman, editor, PublicEyeOnline.com, columnist, Glacier Media

"24 Hours, the Vancouver paper that has been leading the coverage, as well as the hints of conspiracy in B.C."

- Norman Spector, columnist, Globe and Mail

"Although the major media in this circumstance has been giving the case significant coverage, Tieleman's reports on his blog have been outstanding.

The entire cut and thrust of legal wrangling and arguments has been covered and is accompanied by considered analysis.....His blog site coverage of the Basi-Virk trial is the most in depth treatment of one of British Columbia's biggest political scandals."

- Bill Bell, columnist, The North Shore News

"Mr. Tieleman has published online dispatches which, freed from the limitations of newsprint space or broadcast time, can run at length. They also remain available for those select readers who become obsessed with a case also known as Railgate.....

In another bizarre twist to a story with no shortage of them, Mr. Tieleman went to work one day in December only to discover his office had been ransacked. Bookcases had been tipped over and papers strewn, but nothing was missing.

To top it off, a press kit for the self-published novel The Raid, written by a retired military officer in Metchosin and featuring on its cover a photograph from the 2003 police raid, had been left in a conspicuous place."

- Tom Hawthorn, columnist, The Globe and Mail

Nobody has followed the Basi-Virk affair over its past five years with greater diligence than local journalist, Bill Tieleman....Tieleman deserves our thanks, a fistful of journalism awards and some merit citation for citizenship.

- David Berner, broadcaster, actor, writer, blogger - David Talks/The Berner Monologues

There are some journalists - columnist Bill Tieleman for example - who like me have remained on this story from the start. There should be a lot more of us, that's for sure.

- Mark Hume, reporter, The Globe and Mail

Bill Tieleman

Sunday, December 24, 2017

Merry Christmas to all - from Bill Tieleman and West Star Communications!

Bill Tieleman - after Broadway Plan Protest

Bill Tieleman & BC NDP Premier John Horgan

Wine Barbarian - Bill Tieleman's wine & food blog

Bill and former Premier Glen Clark & cabinet minister John Cashore

Bill Tieleman and BC NDP Health Minister Adrian Dix

Bill Tieleman and BC NDP Attorney General David Eby

Former BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm and Bill Tieleman

Bill and former Social Credit Premier Bill Bennett

Bill and former Premier Mike Harcourt

The late Jack Layton, Bill Tieleman and Tom Mulcair

Bill with former premier Dave Barrett

Bill and former Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson

Bill Tieleman & former BC Premier Dan Miller

Bill Tieleman with Mark Kelley - of CBC TV's Connect

Bill with chef John Bishop

Bill and Newfoundland Liberal MP Scott Simms

Bill Tieleman - Your Next Guest Speaker!

Bill Tieleman and Ross Rebagliati, Olympic Gold Medal Snowboarder & client

Robin Sears, Mike Harcourt, Bill Tieleman & Andrea Reimer

Bill and CBC Marketplace co-host Erica Johnson

Chris Delaney and Bill Tieleman

Premier Gordon Campbell and former BC NDP leader Joy MacPhail

Bill Tieleman & Shirley Ross

Bill Tieleman - outside BC Supreme Court - see the A-Z of Basi-Virk by clicking photo

Bill with Vancouver Councilor Heather Deal, right, Park Board Commissioner Loretta Woodcock

Bill Tieleman with Joy MacPhail & James Shavick

Al Gore - Fancy Farms Kentucky - 1992

Bill Tieleman and Senator Larry Campbell, former Vancouver mayor

Jim Sinclair, Cindy Oliver, Ken Georgetti and Bill Tieleman

Bill Tieleman, Chris Haddock - producer of CBC TV's Intelligence and Councilor Ellen Woodsworth

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