Appeared in Business in Vancouver – May 6, 2014 Let us get the business out of the way. Last year the Vancouver Aquarium attracted over a million visitors. Its total revenue was $30.6 million, of which $12.9 million was from admissions. Its fame is worldwide. It has thrived under co-founder Murray Newman and, since Newman’s…
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TransLink’s Riders Bill of Rights is long overdue
What’s needed is provincial legislation forcing TransLink to reach standards of service and performance for transit’s ignored constituency: the riders Appeared in Business in Vancouver – March 12, 2013 Today’s theme is the Miss Adelaide factor in Vancouver’s gripping issue of public transit. Puzzled? You look old enough to recall that in the great…
Is there a hillbilly curse on Evelyn Drive?
Appeared in the North Shore News – July 8, 2011 DUE to riotous living across the inlet, I reluctantly delayed noting this important West Vancouver date. Belated unhappy 10th anniversary! It was on June 27, 2001 that the Vancouver Sun trumpeted the views of the owner of three Evelyn Drive lots under the headline Alarm…
There is plenty of blame to go around
Appeared in the North Shore News – June 24, 2011 Rounding up the suspects responsible for Hockey Riot in Canada: Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Um, er, isn’t he dead? Leftist Trudeau’s legacy of determinedly keeping property rights out of his famed charter lives on. Three B.C. Liberal MLAs, Garde Gardom, Pat McGeer and Allan Williams, were…
West Van-Capilano waters look murky
Appeared in the North Shore News – May 27, 2011 A current profile in a slick magazine might as well have said it with sky-writing: “We love this candidate! We’re hyping her for the coming election!” The story is in Vancouver, one of those magazines devoted to restless consumers who find their perfectly OK bathrooms…
Vancouver focuses on wheels, not strolls
Originally appeared in the North Shore News – October 15, 2010 There are two things that can never be made as safe as their dizzier zealots demand: Cycling and prostitution. Which doesn’t stop them from trying. The mad mayor of Vancouver, Gregor Robertson, and his leftist councillors have contributed to the expansion of shamocracy (as…
Vancouver mayor should stop peddling bicycles
Appeared in North Shore News – July 9, 2010 Vancouver allows chickens. But the biggest cluck in the city’s backyard is Mayor Gregor Robertson. With his trusty allies at his side — mountain-biker Health Minister and former transport minister Kevin Falcon, pedalling force behind the disastrous Spirit Trail whose effects are being visited on West…