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Love in a garden, and a less than smart chess move

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Trevor

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…

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Server sings and West Vancouver helps out autism cause

Posted on March 28, 2016April 2, 2016 by Trevor

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…

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No opinion on LNG, says non-stick Pam

Posted on March 12, 2016April 2, 2016 by Trevor

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,…

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Hotel, casino could lure fun-loving to West Vancouver

Posted on February 27, 2016April 2, 2016 by Trevor

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…

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Self interest fuels real estate Wild West

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Trevor

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…

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Edible jewels unearthed amid pricey produce

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Trevor

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…

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Sailing club a lightning rod for waterfront debate

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – January 15, 2016 Amy Baird grew up going to the Hollyburn Sailing Club every summer. Her mother, Anne, was its first woman commodore. “As a young girl I was so proud of her. Still am,” Amy says. The club was “a great way to meet new kids and…

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New West Vancouver MP talks LNG, arts and Ottawa

Posted on January 2, 2016January 17, 2016 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – January 1, 2016 In snooty West Vancouver, where we think foreign relations begin at the North Vancouver border, it is novel to have a bona fide parliamentary secretary for the federal foreign affairs minister. “I got to Ottawa on the Monday and found I was going to be…

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Cheers to Potters and Scrooges of our day

Posted on December 19, 2015January 17, 2016 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – December 18, 2015 At Christmas, our hearts should go out to those who are all too easily ignored throughout the year. They are the invisible people of our society. In our busy day-to-day lives we seldom give them a thought. When they come to our attention in the…

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When an election promise isn’t a promise

Posted on December 5, 2015January 17, 2016 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – December 4, 2015 In a less Justin-besotted Canada, a “Trudeau promise” would enter the language – an oxymoron, like “military intelligence.” You’ll recall that in November Liberal leader Justin Trudeau bid up compassionate Canada’s offer to accept Syrian refugees – handily out-caring rivals Thomas Mulcair and Stephen Harper….

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