None of My Business Appeared in Business in Vancouver – Issue 1158, January 3-9, 2012 Ken and Charlie would have been gratified. Or would they? This month, 70 years after the fall of Hong Kong and the beginning of the cruel ordeal of its defenders including Canadian soldiers like Ken Cambon and Charlie Considine, the…
Day: February 19, 2012
Former finance minster Paul Martin’s debt-defying world tour
None of My Business Appeared in Business in Vancouver – Issue 1154, December 6-12, 2011 Paul Martin looked at a clock in Vancouver and saw that it was late. The clock was the debt clock in the window of a downtown bank, Martin was on a year’s tour of Canada to sell his deficit-reduction plan, …
Avoiding empty outcomes from Occupy Vancouver
None of My Business Appeared in Business in Vancouver – Issue 1149, November 1-7, 2011 About 45 minutes into the opening Occupy Vancouver rally I had, unbidden, a racial moment. Where were the visible immigrants? The rally’s dominant theme was variations on the now well-known “1/99” – the one per cent of the fabulously rich…
Get a return ticket for these bus shelters
Appeared in the North Shore News – February 17, 2012 I’M reluctant to speak ill of the politically departed, but the gatekeeper who waved in Jimmy Pattison’s widely disliked “bus shelters” in West Vancouver was Pamela Goldsmith-Jones. The buck stops there – on the mayor’s desk. She was mayor. She was CEO. She set the…