Appeared in Business in Vancouver – July 1, 2014 To pontificate in a Canada Day column to you very young people – anyone under 70 – about our nation’s recent history, as experienced by an, ahem, seasoned journalist who has lived through more than half of the nation’s history, may seem like a fraudulent way…
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A Canada Day ode to the worth of working-class sensibilities
Appeared in Business in Vancouver – July 2, 2013 It may seem an eccentricity to link Canada Day with my four daughters-in-law. But read on. First, I reel backwards to a course I took last year at UBC: Canadian history since 1945. Of course, born 1934, I was the only one in the room who…