At the beginning of 2023, I made seven predictions for the upcoming year. Let’s take a look at those predictions and see how good — or not so good – were my prognostication abilities. PREDICTION ONE: The war in Ukraine would come to an end not on the battlefield but at the negotiating table. Sadly,…

COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, took place from November 30th to December 12th, 2023 in Dubai, the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai. It has now been 28 years since the first COP was hosted from March 28th to April 7th,1995 in…

Mayor Ken Sim is in trouble! The only question is how much trouble. On December 6, 2023, the mayor announced his intention to abolish Vancouver’s Park Board. Established in 1888 through the Vancouver Charter to oversee Stanley Park, the Park Board now has responsibility for all of our parks, community centres, pools, ice rinks, street…

The ’soundbite machine’ is at it yet again. On November 21, 2023, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre  ordered his Conservative Members of Parliament to vote against a bill modernizing the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement. Why? Because the Agreement endorses cooperation between both countries to “promote carbon pricing and measures to mitigate carbon leakage risks,” Never…

Despite worldwide calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli-Hamas war persists and all of us continue to be terribly distraught about Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza’s unarmed civilians. While this violence will come to an end sooner or later, it is bound to be repeated if we do not address the underlying reason for this conflict…