To preserve or pulverize? West Van Council weighs fate of Navvy Jack House, unique in the history (there’s little of it) of the Lower Mainland By TREVOR LAUTENS You’ve quite often heard, if your hearing is keen and you have the right sort of friends, the phrase “love of history.” Yes. Well, it’s like love…
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A Prime Minister Needs to Be Pulled Down All Right, but Not This One
Trudeau’s long silence on the Sir John A. Macdonald statue desecration by thugs is the final stamp on his and his Liberal government’s unfitness to govern More than 24 hours after it happened, Justin Trudeau had nothing to say about the outrageous pulling down by “activists” – that would be a good CBC namby-pampy euphemism…
A Banker with Principles and Interest Just in Case Liberals Have Given up on Justin
By Trevor Lautens VANCOUVER Road-test these words to see if they fall trippingly on the tongue: Mark Carney seeks Liberal leadership! Mark Carney wins Liberal leadership race! Liberal Mark Carney beats No-Name Conservative! Mark Carney, Liberal Prime Minister! Agent 6D3kJ7 is one of my most impressive agents. He, or she, has decades of experience in…
The Whistling Santa of Caulfeild Village
By HAROLD VALENTINE and TREVOR LAUTENS He’s a classic. Some Santas are sincere but painfully unconvincing. Some are starvingly skinny, as if the North Pole could use a food bank. Some have joylessly droopy beards heading south onto their chests. The red suits of course are instantly identifiable but some are so fusty-foosty I’d be…
The Village Scold
An irregular column on West Vancouver matters (the logo stolen from the great Bruce Hutchison) By Trevor Lautens Give this a workout on your tongue: Premier Pamela Goldsmith-Jones Pam for Premier! Standing ovation? Or screams of horror? Is Halloween over? My Agent 5%jwKnD7, who knows his or her way around town, states that Pamela…