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…
Tag: John Cummins
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…
Cummins’ leadership hurt by departures
Appeared in the North Shore News – September 28, 2012 YOU read it here second: Liberal Premier Christy Clark will still be premier when she wakes up on May 15, 2013 – the day after the provincial election. I say “second” because I first published what many will say is a laughable prediction in another…
On MLA finances, clean noses all around
Appeared in the North Shore News – August 3, 2012 QUESTION: What is the difference between the B.C. legislature and Ponzi schemes? Answer: Ponzi fraudsters keep accurate books. So while the records of Ponzi crooks helpfully make police investigations simpler, our legislators collectively haven’t left a clearer paper trail than a kid’s lemonade stand. Aw,…
Gentleman John extraordinarily ordinary
Appeared in the North Shore News – December 9, 2011 THE most terrifying man in British Columbia slipped in and out of West Vancouver last week. Where was our vaunted national security network when we really needed it? Aw, just funnin’. Gentleman John Cummins is no threat – except to the B.C. Liberal government and…