Appeared in the North Shore News – April 26, 2013 SO I sat down, sucked a thumb, and wrote an ingenious screed that could have been titled The Hinge of Western Democracy: British Columbia’s Provincial Election… Which I’ve scrapped. Important though our election is to us, it shrinks to a local play on a small…
Month: April 2013
The optimist versus the actor: Liberal election fortunes brighten
Appeared in Business in Vancouver – April 23, 2013 Christy Clark is bound and determined to prove I am uniquely correct in predicting she will be re-elected May 14 as premier of some, not all, of the people. That sage prophecy was made last August. Cascades of scandal, bungles and flights from the foundering Liberal…
Senate and House of Commons vie for crown of most politically redundant
The Harperland version of democracy has slipped over the border from the knuckle-under-or-else whip system into soft fascism Appeared in Business in Vancouver – April 9, 2013 There are three problems that periodically surface to trouble the Canadian mind. 1. What is the meaning of life? 2. Did Romeo ever actually sleep with Juliet?…
Musical recalls Cupid’s painful arrows
Appeared in the North Shore News – April 12, 2013 HELL, I work hard. Have two jobs. Attend university. Pretend to be a landlord. So I’m taking the day off – just lazily writing about myself. This shameless self-indulgence was touched off by a clipping of a North Shore News ad for The Boy Friend…