Appeared in North Shore News – March 4, 2011 Let us get our priorities right. The biggest story since we last met in this space is, by far, eagles. What were you expecting? Surely not B.C. politics. Bald eagles have inhabited this coast for countless centuries. No current political leader will be around in 20…
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I’ve lost my rose-tinted 2010 spectacles
Appeared in North Shore News – February 18, 2011 Are you getting off on the drooling orgy of nostalgia on the anniversary of Winter Olympics 2010? Oh, you’ve guessed I’m not. Television retrospectives? Special sections in the dailies? Oily hype and self-congratulation? Whenever Vancouver talks big-city, it’s small-town. Yes, it was a grand party. But:…
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…