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
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…
Santa Monica future awaits in West Vancouver
Appeared in the North Shore News – August 14, 2015 I have a daymare. Here it is. In this daymare, I see a bagman for West Vancouver’s CAAD, the Centre for Art, Architecture + Design. The bagman is on the street begging — CAADging, you might say — for small change for this proposed three-storey-and-underground-parking…
Ambitious vision touted for gallery-plus
Appeared in the North Shore News – July 31, 2015 Wrong. Public demand, small. Public money, big. Public need, registering at all? And at the top of the list, mine, anyway: wrong, wrong, wrong site. That’s the long-sought West Vancouver art gallery — now art-gallery-plus, the appeal and the pitch broadened in recent years under…