As you know, my partner, Penny, and I are big fans of Democracy Now! It’s a daily global news hour with Juan González and Amy Goodman, who, once again, opened our eyes to a hugely important issue. Their recent show, Food is the Pathway to Peace, featured the UN’s World Food Programme — the largest…
Make a commitment to change!
Here we are in the holiday season with its many celebrations and events coming up. This has been a challenging year. But we’ll all do our best to follow Dr. Bonnie Henry’s sensible advice and keep ourselves and our loved ones safe. So I’d like to remind us all about a few action items. Close…
The NPA is as good as dead
It’s Vancouver’s oldest and some would call it the city’s most venerable political party, since it has dominated our local political scene for decades. The Non-Partisan Association, or NPA, was founded in 1936 to claim the centre-right when Vancouver’s business class was petrified of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation or CCF — a socialist democratic party…
Help stop The Ice Pick for good. It insults us all!
The Toronto-based developers like to describe it in terms of origami for its so-called “folded planes”. But just about everybody I know calls it The Ice Pick for its cold indifference to its surroundings, and how it stabs at the heart of our city’s most iconic district. We all thought the dreaded Ice Pick project…
What Edward Snowden can teach us
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…
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…