Appeared in Business in Vancouver – Issue 1167, March 6-12, 2012 I take pride in my simplistic attitude toward legalizing marijuana. I’m against it. Better know that immediately if you plan to read on. I identify those who favour legalization as well-educated, privileged people, or deluded fools. Not that those groups don’t intermarry. Oh, not [...]
Posted in Business in Vancouver on Apr 13th, 2012
None of My Business Appeared in Business in Vancouver – Issue 1158, January 3-9, 2012 Ken and Charlie would have been gratified. Or would they? This month, 70 years after the fall of Hong Kong and the beginning of the cruel ordeal of its defenders including Canadian soldiers like Ken Cambon and Charlie Considine, the [...]
Posted in Business in Vancouver on Feb 19th, 2012
None of My Business Appeared in Business in Vancouver – Issue 1154, December 6-12, 2011 Paul Martin looked at a clock in Vancouver and saw that it was late. The clock was the debt clock in the window of a downtown bank, Martin was on a year’s tour of Canada to sell his deficit-reduction plan, [...]
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None of My Business Appeared in Business in Vancouver – Issue 1149, November 1-7, 2011 About 45 minutes into the opening Occupy Vancouver rally I had, unbidden, a racial moment. Where were the visible immigrants? The rally’s dominant theme was variations on the now well-known “1/99” – the one per cent of the fabulously rich [...]
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