My partner, Penny, recently turned me onto audiobooks from Vancouver Public Library. I don’t know why, but I was initially quite reluctant to switch from print to audio. I was convinced I would get nowhere near as much pleasure from listening to a book being read as I get from silent reading. How wrong I…
Author: Tim Louis
Hats off to TransLink’s best CEO ever — Kevin Desmond
Recently, TransLink announced the departure of its CEO, Kevin Desmond, as he’s returning to the U.S. where his wife and family live. I’ll be very sorry to see him leave. Let me explain why. I’ve had interactions with TransLink and its predecessor, the Urban Transit Authority, for more than 40 years. Back in the late…
Time to push even harder
Last week, I told you that, depending upon the outcome of the US presidential election, it was going to be either cyanide or champagne for my partner, Penny, and I! So you can imagine how elated we were on Saturday morning when all the major news networks called Pennsylvania in favour of Joe Biden. Pennsylvania’s…
Cyanide or champagne?
Last night, as my partner, Penny, and I went to bed, it looked as though for the second time in a row America was going to elect the most misogynistic, homophobic, racist, xenophobic, environmentally-destructive president ever in American history. Don’t forget, he’s a sociopath and narcissist, too. Penny and I went to bed with our…
This NDP victory spells h-o-p-e
Wow! The results are in — or they almost are. And predictions have it that even after all the mail-in ballots are counted, the provincial NDP will have secured an historic election victory. They’re leading in, or have won, 55 ridings, and they’ve earned 45 per cent of the popular vote — the biggest share…
Hats off to council — for getting behind $1 billion for housing!
Last week, I tipped my hat to Mayor Stewart Kennedy for his $30-million proposal to address homelessness. This initiative was a welcome and significant step forward in addressing our current emergency homelessness crisis due to COVID-19. It was also a major first — never before has a Vancouver mayor proposed spending such an amount of…
Turning over a beautiful new leaf with homelessness
I read in the news recently of a very exciting study called the New Leaf Project that was done by Foundations for Social Change, a Vancouver-based charitable organization, and UBC. Starting in 2018, a number of homeless individuals were each given $7500. Their spending was then tracked over a year and compared to a control…