I'm going to admit to a sort of train-wreck fascination with what's been happening in the Alberta Green party for quite some time. So when "Mary Martin" posted on a recent blog that some things had recently been posted on the facebook page for the Greens in Alberta, I had to take a look.It turns out that the posts on the facebook page confirm some things that I heard a long time ago. In what I think was my first post on this saga, I mentioned that I had heard some things, and that what was being reported was not what I had heard. In my most recent post, I talked about people mistaking honest mistakes for something malicious. What I was alluding to in both places has now been discussed in public on the facebook page, and a lot more.Paul Last had some long conversations and a meeting with Joe Anglin about the whole affair, and he posts a lengthy recap. Some of the highlights (with some updates from another discussion on the page):[Update: The two links above are no longer functional on the facebook site. Mary suggests in the comments section below that they have been removed by the facebook group administrator. - Gauntlet]

• Members of the past executive went to some effort to prevent Joe Anglin's motions from being considered at an AGM.
• Joe Anglin at some point offered to resign, or not run for the leadership, or both. I didn't quite understand the context of that.
• There is documentary evidence that shows David Crowe, the previous financial officer, did not do what he claims to have done on his website.
• The party was actually voluntarily de-registered in order to avoid the embarassment of what would have happened if they had attempted to maintain it.
• A company owned and operated by David Crowe and Susan Stratton reportedly provided illegal loans to the party in 2008. (This is what I had originally heard was going on.) The receipt of these loans was approved, at least in part, by David Crowe. So in this sense, he was authorizing the expenditure of interest to himself.
• These loans were evidently not disclosed to the auditor, their auditor has resigned, and it very unlikely that any other auditor would agree to audit the party's books without a full forensic audit. That is not a financial possibility, and was a major reason for the party's demise.
• Anglin accuses a number of past executives of falsely signing a document indicating that the party was incorporated under the Business Corporations Act.
• Someone is prepared to file a claim for extortion against David Crowe on the basis of a recorded phone call.

As for the value of the rest of this information, it's nil. We know more, but we've learned nothing. It's unfortunate that none of the parties deeply involved in this process seem to have ever realized that what was at risk was something much larger than whether or not their opponent got what was coming to them for their mistakes or misdeeds.