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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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Trudeau the Younger acquitted himself well

Posted on October 24, 2015November 22, 2015 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – October 23, 2015 I have been standing back admiring the brilliance of my prediction that the Conservatives would win Monday’s election. The logic was impeccable, though not unique — just more genially expressed. It follows. Liberal Justin Trudeau and especially New Democrat Thomas Mulcair were as zealous campaigning…

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Conservatives on track to take top spot

Posted on October 10, 2015November 22, 2015 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – October 9, 2015 The Conservatives will win the election. Could get a majority. They’ll win on the economy (the Globe and Mail recently ran a glowing double-page spread, declaring “the West Coast is on a roll” while “much of Canada’s economy sputters”). They’ll win big on the terrorism…

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Christy Clark’s victorious drive up Main Street, B.C.

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – May 21, 2013 On May 14, in plain sight of millions of witnesses, Christy Clark drove through a stoplight. The symbolic stoplight of her political career. The red light that was supposed to stop dead Clark’s bouncy, smiley-face premiership, mirroring her real-life drive through a light at 5:15 a.m….

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Marx, Wilde and Forster unite: A historical dream team for B.C. government

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – May 10, 2013 I tried to assemble an all-time dream team of distinguished candidates for the May 14 election – excluding actual politicians such as Commie-slayers Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Not easy. I considered Plato. Too obvious. Also he predicted democracy would lead to chaos, followed by dictatorship….

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Christy Clark will win – you read it here first

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – May 10, 2013 MULTIPLE sparkling, titillating items battling for top spot: Gordon Wilson is a fascinating British Columbia study, a shrewd maverick whose feet stepped into a cow-pie or two – most visibly a marital one – but whose head arguably contains the sharpest political smarts of any…

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Poverty is not the mother of terrorism

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – April 26, 2013 SO I sat down, sucked a thumb, and wrote an ingenious screed that could have been titled The Hinge of Western Democracy: British Columbia’s Provincial Election… Which I’ve scrapped. Important though our election is to us, it shrinks to a local play on a small…

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The optimist versus the actor: Liberal election fortunes brighten

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in Business in Vancouver – April 23, 2013 Christy Clark is bound and determined to prove I am uniquely correct in predicting she will be re-elected May 14 as premier of some, not all, of the people. That sage prophecy was made last August. Cascades of scandal, bungles and flights from the foundering Liberal…

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Election fever and a B.C. Liberal nightmare

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Trevor

Appeared in North Shore News – April 29, 2011 Turning now to the other election: You remember The Two Ronnies. Are you ready for The Two Pams? Sound bet: Pamela Goldsmith-Jones and former TV anchor and now Christy Clark camp-follower Pamela Martin will seek the lush, fat provincial Liberal seats in West Vancouver. Evidence: Silence….

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