Appeared in Business in Vancouver – January 8, 2013 Today Canada is eagerly kissing neo-imperialist China’s backside, its face clearly revealed by the still-ubiquitous public posters of mass murderer and towering economic bungler Mao Zedong No, the following rant wasn’t fuelled by a weekend of intense liquid partying, a warm-up for New Year’s. It…
Month: January 2013
Awe inspiring or just awful, that’s humanity
Appeared in the North Shore News – January 4, 2013 OF the Little Things we have plenty; just listen to the recitation of Saturday night carnage on Sunday morning radio. The Big Questions remain. What can explain this strange species that can randomly spray bullets at little kids and their teachers – and compassionately, expensively,…
Times taxing poor Scrooge
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition December 22, 2012 J14 VANCOUVER — Finance Minister Ebenezer Scrooge VI stared from his office window at the unpopulated square below. The building was empty, silent. His face was a study. Reflective? Troubled? Conflicted? Perhaps all. It had been a long road for the Scrooges from the…
The anecdotal life of Vancouver’s daily
Appeared in the North Shore News – December 21, 2012 SHAMELESS shilling: For Christmas, give your beloved 100 Years of The Vancouver Sun, by excellent columnist Shelley Fralic. Yes, 35-odd years on Sun premises may torque my objectivity. But, much more than a newspaper admiring its handsome reflection in the pool of time, the book…
In web dating, the first casualty is truth
Appeared in the North Shore News – December 7, 2012 CHRISTMAS approaches, and I muse about the Christian church, love and Internet dating. Something tells me that the last subject is more compelling for today’s readers than the other two. Patience. Wait for it. All right, I bow to your begging. “Please, please, Uncle T.,…