Appeared in the North Shore News – June 3, 2016 You may have heard – or bellowed yourself – something like: ‘‘By Jing, that moron Coun. Thimblehooper! I’ll never vote for that idiot again!’’ The Thimblehooper moment has come in West Vancouver. Because only a council of Thimblehoopers could consider for one New York minute…
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Time to rally on ludicrous waterfront plan
Appeared in the North Shore News – May 20, 2016 It’s the classic solution looking for a problem. There is nothing wrong with Ambleside beach that West Vancouver town hall can’t screw up, permanently, irrevocably – starting with the core surrender of delightful Argyle Avenue to the Spirit Trail bicycle lobby and its enablers. To…
Marijuana ‘mare’s nest’ deserves mention
Appeared in the North Shore News – May 6, 2016 Hey, let’s have some benefit to show for West Van’s fat 6.87 per cent property tax rise. First, restore the trash cans – why were they removed? – at each littered end of the 5400-block Marine Drive. Sure, that’s my block, and why not exploit…
Supremes preside over rule of lawyers
Appeared in the North Shore News – April 22, 2016 Who governs Canada? Why, the Queen, of course. Except she doesn’t. All those references to “the Crown” owning this or that, and prosecuting alleged lawbreakers (and, to her indignation about the impertinence, routinely taken to court herself) etc., which amuse visitors from the great republic…
Love in a garden, and a less than smart chess move
Appeared in the North Shore News – April 7, 2016 Stunning blow to West Vancouver town hall’s Ambleside-Dundarave renewal vision (or fantasy): The Avant Gardener in the core 1400-block Marine Drive is shutting down. After 28 years owner Darlene Sanders is holding a 30-per-cent-off closing-out sale and — romantically — is bound for new life…
Server sings and West Vancouver helps out autism cause
Appeared in the North Shore News – March 24, 2016 It’s asking a lot, but suspend your fascination with West Vancouver politics. Go light of foot and heart to La Cucina, where the food and the unforced atmosphere of an intimate European restaurant are draws enough, its regulars confiding its lure only to reliable friends…
No opinion on LNG, says non-stick Pam
Appeared in the North Shore News – March 11, 2016 You’d think the local member of Parliament would have an opinion on the Woodfibre LNG project, wouldn’t you? Or am I being naïve again? I’ve sent several unsuccessful emails to Pamela Goldsmith-Jones, our woman in Ottawa as MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country,…
Hotel, casino could lure fun-loving to West Vancouver
Appeared in the North Shore News – February 26, 2016 I interrupt a half-written diatribe on the West Vancouver waterfront for a different diatribe. Here are three money-spinning strategies for West Vancouver revival. Sure to alienate some faithful readers, all seven of them. And free. If I had a lot of professional initials after my…
Self interest fuels real estate Wild West
Appeared in the North Shore News – February 12, 2016 Who didn’t know that Vancouver real estate prices are outrageous – even possibly inciting future civil violence by young generations shut out of ever owning a home in the city of their birth? What’s new – what’s news, thanks to a print reporter who proved…
Edible jewels unearthed amid pricey produce
Appeared in the North Shore News – January 29, 2016 Ignore terrorism in Vancouver – exploding home prices. Forget the media watch on Justin Trudeau’s fading honeymoon. Pass by Wall Street to Your Street, where real people, even most on-shore West Vancouverites, live. I stopped dead at a store’s scrawled sign: Cauliflower 2/$4. Surely a…