Appeared in North Shore News – August 20, 2010 More summer smiles, silliness and sobriety: I trust every North Shorean read Peter Oates’s intelligent and soberingly candid Aug. 7 letter to the editor in The Vancouver Sun, refuting the gospel according to B.C.’s big business interests concerning the Harmonized Sales Tax. Oates is owner/operator of…
Month: August 2010
Soap bubbles cheaper than facility dreams
Appeared in North Shore News – August 6, 2010 Smiles and stings of a summer day: “This will only take a minute,” said the pert Asian woman as she seized me by my metaphorical lapels. Right: Sixty seconds later I was $15 poorer. This occurred at a sidewalk sale near Capilano Mall’s food court. The…