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….
Tag: election
Trudeau the Younger acquitted himself well
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…
Conservatives on track to take top spot
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…
Christy Clark’s victorious drive up Main Street, B.C.
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….
Marx, Wilde and Forster unite: A historical dream team for B.C. government
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….
Christy Clark will win – you read it here first
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…
Poverty is not the mother of terrorism
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…
The optimist versus the actor: Liberal election fortunes brighten
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…
Election fever and a B.C. Liberal nightmare
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….