Gums continue to flap about what high-powered Conservative operative Ian Todd (also known as the Iceman) is doing at the provincial legislature. Earlier, Public Eye broke the news that Mr. Todd, who previously worked as Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day's chief of staff and Reform leader Preston Manning's right-hand man, had been appointed as mid-ranking cabinet minister Rick Thorpe's ministerial assistant. Since then, rumours have been circulating that the Iceman may be replacing Lara Dauphinee, the premier's deputy chief of staff, as Gordon Campbell's traveling aide. But that won't be his only job. A senior government insider tells us Mr. Thorpe has been dividing his time between running the revenue ministry and doing pre-election work for the provincial Liberals. The insider declined to give specifics on that work. But, evidently, Mr. Todd will be helping him out, leaving executive assistant Bob Poore in charge of the bureaucrats.