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Love in a garden, and a less than smart chess move

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – April 7, 2016 Stunning blow to West Vancouver town hall’s Ambleside-Dundarave renewal vision (or fantasy): The Avant Gardener in the core 1400-block Marine Drive is shutting down. After 28 years owner Darlene Sanders is holding a 30-per-cent-off closing-out sale and — romantically — is bound for new life…

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Park Royal towers back up for debate

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – April 10, 2015 Abandoning my usual wishy-washy views, I have a strong one on the proposed Park Royal towers project. Kill it, West Vancouver council. Nora Gambioli. Christine Cassidy. Craig Cameron, maybe. They’re council’s most likely giant-killers of the density-leaping 27-storey and 12-storey residential-plus towers sought by the…

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Zealots crowd out the considerate

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – February 13, 2015 The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions in history, a freeing vehicle, a pioneer emancipator of women — and now a vehicle of protest. To start at the conclusion: The North Shore’s nearest analogy to the gang warfare elsewhere in Metro is on the…

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West Van foodies foraging farther afield

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – April 11, 2014 Decisions, decisions. Today’s topic: Should I expiate on the Quebec election? Or deplore lives and minds so impoverished that a losing hockey season triggers mass civic depression? Neither. Extra Foods at Park Royal Shopping Centre will close April 22. How and where West Vancouverites forage…

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Heads up: Park Royal has WV over its barrel

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – August 2, 2013 I haven’t seen the term for a long time, and it may be out of fashion. So tell me, dude: Is the term “over a barrel” still widely understood? Like, cool? If it’s still in use: With West Vancouver’s Grosvenor development slogging its way to…

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Clark’s happy illusion trumps dour truths

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Trevor

Appeared in the North Shore News – July 19, 2013 MY spectacular streak of correctly predicting B.C. election results having been snapped at one, what excuses do I have? First, I overlooked that Premier Christy Clark was running not in Metro Vancouver under cynical media eyes, but to get a legislature seat in a bleak…

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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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