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Appeared in the North Shore News – September 30, 2011 HELLO, pro-abortion people. Any comment on the Katrina Effert sentence? And the judge’s words from the bench? Oh, unless you’re deep in pro-life or so-called prochoice, you probably never heard of it. Now hear. In 2005 Effert, of Wetaskiwin, Alta., aged 19, a tender age [...]

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Appeared in the North Shore News – September 16, 2011 I’M uncomfortable sounding upbeat. It’s so out of character. But – in the face of assured opinions that are becoming conventional wisdom, which has proven unwise so often in history – that America is in terminal decline, finished as the world’s uncontested superpower . . [...]

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Appeared in the North Shore News – September 5, 2011 WEST Vancouver mayor Pam Goldsmith-Jones doesn’t strike me as the sort who jumps before figuring out where she’ll land. So what I see in the flyspecked old crystal ball is that, maybe parking her good self temporarily in an attractive private enterprise or public advisory [...]

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