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Month: July 2013

Clark could lose – you read it here first

Posted on July 6, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – June 21, 2013 BLOATED with vanity for having shocked millions with my accurate May 14 election soothsaying, I now recklessly sooth more: Premier Christy Clark will be humiliated by a very narrow win – grab a long-odds bet that she will actually lose – the July 10 Westside-Kelowna…

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A Canada Day ode to the worth of working-class sensibilities

Posted on July 6, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – July 2, 2013 It may seem an eccentricity to link Canada Day with my four daughters-in-law. But read on. First, I reel backwards to a course I took last year at UBC: Canadian history since 1945. Of course, born 1934, I was the only one in the room who…

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Senior service given short shrift in Clark cabinet considerations

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Trevor

Sultan is a politely independent gent not cut out to be among the cringing court flatterers who populate the Canadian party system   Appeared in Business in Vancouver – June 18, 2013 Smiley-face Christy Clark kilted up in her Lady Macbeth mode and plunged her dagger into two honest cabinet members who dared cross her….

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Minister Sultan part of election victory

Posted on July 3, 2013July 3, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – June 7, 2013 I predict backwards as well as forwards. So stand by for a prophecy for the past. I predict that Ralph Sultan played a much bigger role in the B.C. Liberals’ election victory May 14 than he’s been given credit for. And this is not just…

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Dead reckoning about the business of life and death

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Trevor

Death is so frightening, so existentially lonely, that our reflexive defence is to make defiant jokes about it   Appeared in Business in Vancouver – June 4, 2013 I had a brilliant idea a quarter of a century ago. That’s about their frequency. I pitched to my newsroom masters of the day a surefire circulation…

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