Appeared in the North Shore News – July 18, 2014 Dr. Lautens believes he recognizes the symptoms in the unfortunate marital breakup of a certain mayor across the water from the North Shore. Dr. Lautens, B.A., D.K.F.A.A.A., the last three letters standing for All About Anything, diagnoses the underlying malady as what the French call…
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A year for proving pundits wrong
Appeared in the North Shore News – January 3, 2014 Try to excuse a personal item, but as a column-provider I’ll remember 2013 as the year of my most embarrassing success. It has become a howling nightmare. I speak of accurately predicting in this space – “You Read It Here First,” the headline trumpeted, inviting…
From Victoria, the sky seems oddly secure
Appeared in North Shore News – August 20, 2010 More summer smiles, silliness and sobriety: I trust every North Shorean read Peter Oates’s intelligent and soberingly candid Aug. 7 letter to the editor in The Vancouver Sun, refuting the gospel according to B.C.’s big business interests concerning the Harmonized Sales Tax. Oates is owner/operator of…