Appeared in the North Shore News – August 15, 2014 Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow was bloodier, but West Van council’s U-turn on its slamming of proposed liquefied natural gas tankers on Howe Sound was quicker. Councillors at the Aug. 4 meeting volubly backed off their unanimous decision two weeks earlier when they had asked Ottawa…
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A fond farewell to St. Pierre and the glory days of dailies, CKNW
Appeared in Business in Vancouver – August 12, 2014 Paul St. Pierre died aged 90 last month, and the daily newspapers he adorned look a little wan too. Abandoning characteristic diplomacy, Vancouver Sun deskman Ron Riter, equipped with the keenest of journalistic noses, would call him the paper’s best columnist of his time. Paul could…
Milk showdown raises ghosts of 1812
Appeared in the North Shore News – August 17, 2012 BELLINGHAM citizens are furious because Canadian shoppers are monopolizing . . . milk. Snatching milk from the mouths of American babies. The Canadian milk-buying invasion is so alarming that pressure is on Bellingham stores like Costco to have dedicated checkouts or time periods for American…
Kitchen oracle speaks economic truth
Appeared in North Shore News – September 17, 2010 Let’s get serious. Our family grocery bill for August was $1,091.25. And yours? My wife was shocked when she added up the figures. We have never budgeted. I always considered budgeting beneath the dignity of West Vancouver residents. Little levity there. But I genuinely can’t figure…
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…