Just when I thought that Mayor Ken Sim could not dig himself any deeper into a hole, he did! On January 29, 2025, the mayor announced that effective immediately he would be boycotting all Metro Vancouver meetings, saying that “Metro Vancouver’s governance is broken” and that their “costs to taxpayers and Vancouverites are out of…
Mayor Sim Knows How To Make A Bad Situation Worse
On January 23, 2025, Vancouver’s Mayor, Ken Sim, made the most outrageous pronouncement of his tenure. At a public safety forum organized by Save Our Streets, he announced that effective immediately, he would not approve any new supportive housing in the city until other municipalities also began building more such units. Reaction was swift, with…
Could Carney be Poilievre’s Kryptonite?
Mark Carney is in! He is officially running to replace Justin Trudeau as Leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister (PM). I am delighted. In my October 5, 2023 blog, I proposed that Mark Carney could be the kryptonite that would derail Pierre Poilievre’s bid to win the next federal election. The question now…
Make America Dark Again
President-elect Donald Trump’s outrageous proposal that Canada become the 51st state of the U.S.A. has been a top news item since he first mentioned the idea at a November 29th Mar-a-Lago dinner with Prime Minister Trudeau. Let’s take a look at the reasoning he puts forward to justify his proposal. Trump says that America subsidizes…
Looking Ahead: Predictions for 2025
It’s that time of year again. Time to make my predictions for the new year. Let’s first take a look at the seven predictions I made for 2024: The United States prison system will admit its most unusual prisoner ever – former president Donald Trump. Well, I did not get that one right. The transition…
AI Will Only Get Better, Are We Ready?
Advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continue at an exponential rate. Every year we witness greater progress than in all previous years combined. I’m sure that 2025 will be no different and we will witness more developments in total than we have seen up until today. The focus of most of the mainstream…
Shorter Days but Later Sunsets
Every year around this time I become obsessed about the ever-shortening days and longer nights. I miss the sun. If you are like me, you may have been under the impression that the sun sets earlier and rises later every day until December 21st, after which it begins to rise earlier and set later. According…