Appeared in the North Shore News – August 15, 2014 Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow was bloodier, but West Van council’s U-turn on its slamming of proposed liquefied natural gas tankers on Howe Sound was quicker. Councillors at the Aug. 4 meeting volubly backed off their unanimous decision two weeks earlier when they had asked Ottawa…
Month: August 2014
A fond farewell to St. Pierre and the glory days of dailies, CKNW
Appeared in Business in Vancouver – August 12, 2014 Paul St. Pierre died aged 90 last month, and the daily newspapers he adorned look a little wan too. Abandoning characteristic diplomacy, Vancouver Sun deskman Ron Riter, equipped with the keenest of journalistic noses, would call him the paper’s best columnist of his time. Paul could…
LNG plan prompts genteel concern
Appeared in the North Shore News – August 1, 2014 So how do you like the idea of tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) past Lions Bay, Bowen Island and – take note – not far off Horseshoe Bay and the western flank of West Vancouver? Clapping hands? Possibly distracted by distant oil transport disputes,…
Youthful investment in Euro adventure yields generous returns
Appeared in Business in Vancouver – July 29, 2014 Sixty years ago, almost to the day, I left for Europe. I was 19. Preposterously, I believed I was destined to be a poet. I associated poets with dirt. I didn’t have a full wash for six weeks. I sailed on Cunard’s Scythia from Quebec City…