Originally published in Vancouver Courier on December 9, 2015. Read below for more information regarding the City of Vancouver’s bidding process (or lack thereof), and the BC Utilities Commission ruling. Vancouver’s sizable delegation returns home this week from the Paris COP21 conference on climate policy, and they are undoubtedly pleased with the praise received for aspiring […]
This post was featured earlier in Vancity Buzz. Image above sourced from Price Tags blog. Now that the wraps have been taken off the design plans for Evergreen Line stations the reality is setting in – rapid transit is finally coming to Metro Vancouver's Tri-Cities area. However, questions continue to linger about Translink's capacity to handle […]
This post ran originally at Huffington Post BC, and in The Province on their paywall free blog. Vision’s brazen redefinition of “engagement” would even impress George Orwell I’ve got an idea – let’s add the expression “civic engagement” to Vancouver’s newspeak dictionary. “Newspeak” is the term George Orwell first coined in his novel 1984. In Orwell’s […]
You hear the rumour once or twice, you can shrug it off. But now that I’ve heard it more than a half dozen times – even from people who are close to me – I think it is wise to go on the record. I am not planning, nor am I intending to put my […]
If you're going to play in BC politics, you better bring your 'A' game The following op-ed originally ran in the Vancouver Sun on August 2nd, 2012. When it comes to sports we know that Canada’s national obsession is hockey. For those who discuss Canadian politics, however, there is no bigger subject today than oil […]
Photo: Dan Toulgoet We’ve always appreciated any coverage we’ve received for our work and the issues we discussed at City Caucus. The Vancouver Courier has been generous over the years covering various community efforts I’ve been involved with, and they published this great report on the wrap up of the City Caucus blog. Founders pull […]
Urban planning discussions focus on bike lanes and active lives. But what about old folks? “Some day,” I quipped at the announcement of my candidacy for city councillor in May of last year, “I hope to be an old man. My bootcamp instructor, however, says I already am one.” The politics of our aging society […]
At the time of my campaign announcement last April there were many things to prepare, and it never occurred to me that I would take the speech that I wrote for that day as a blog post. Here again are my thoughts as to why I'm running for Vancouver city council… I’m here to make […]
Rebagliati runs in Okanagan-Coquihalla: what are these guys thinking? And what's with the toque? So Ross Rebagliati is now a Liberal candidate. I do not know Mr. Rebagliati, and do not disparage his accomplishment of getting gold at the Winter Olympics a few years back. However, from what I've seen and heard out of his […]