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Month: May 2011

West Van-Capilano waters look murky

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – May 27, 2011 A current profile in a slick magazine might as well have said it with sky-writing: “We love this candidate! We’re hyping her for the coming election!” The story is in Vancouver, one of those magazines devoted to restless consumers who find their perfectly OK bathrooms…

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Of Old Bulls and Young Turks

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Trevor

Appeared in Winnipeg Free Press – May 14, 2011 VANCOUVER — Ready for the Parliamentary Channel switching to re-runs of Sesame Street? How about a private member’s bill bringing acne into the Canada Health Act? Think diaper boards in the washrooms will raise public respect for the Commons? The parliamentarians’ informal afternoon naps may be…

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Young bloods face stuffed-shirt reality

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Trevor

Appeared in North Shore News – May 13, 2011 Ready for the Parliamentary Channel switching to re-runs of Sesame Street? How about a private member’s bill bringing acne into the Canada Health Act? Think diaper boards in the washrooms will raise public respect for the Commons? Parliament’s informal afternoon naps may be made mandatory, with…

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Eleven days is a long time in journalism

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Trevor

This was written 11 days before the election – before the dramatic surge of Jack Layton and the New Democrats that nobody, including the writer, naturally to his possible embarrassment, foresaw. Whether that surge will prove water on the desert’s dusty face, or a historical revolt by voters deeply disenchanted with the two parties that…

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Election fever and a B.C. Liberal nightmare

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Trevor

Appeared in North Shore News – April 29, 2011 Turning now to the other election: You remember The Two Ronnies. Are you ready for The Two Pams? Sound bet: Pamela Goldsmith-Jones and former TV anchor and now Christy Clark camp-follower Pamela Martin will seek the lush, fat provincial Liberal seats in West Vancouver. Evidence: Silence….

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The road to Calvary is unknown to many

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Trevor

Appeared in North Shore News – April 15, 2011 Good Friday being ahead and this column dark, as journalists say, on the day itself, it seems fair weather to discuss what it’s all about. It begins some 2,000 years ago with the birth in Bethlehem of a boy who grew up in Nazareth, which in…

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