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Posted in General on Jun 17th, 2015
Two days ago I sent around a picture of the Pope and Harper which amused me. It had already been tweeted. Now I find I must plead guilty to stupidity, for until I talked to my wife last night about the reaction to it, it never occurred to me it was probably faked. God’s truth! […]
Posted in General on Jun 12th, 2015
Dear reader(s). I find that I need your help. This may not seem like the most devastating of problems to ever face mankind but it does give me considerable ongoing angst and that’s not a good idea for an ancient writer. Let me tell you what the genesis of this problem is. As some of […]
Posted in General on Jun 11th, 2015
The following was presented to the Vancouver Province on June 7 in response to an article by Stewart Muir who heads Resources Works, a group actively supporting the proposed Woodfibre LNG plant. The Province printed a much abbreviated version on June 12 and I feel obliged to let you get the full picture of the […]
Posted in General on Jun 8th, 2015
On June 7, Wendy and I were guests at Hastings Park and privileged to decorate the winner of the $50,000 Sir Winston Churchill Stakes. It was a wonderful afternoon and thanks to Greg Douglas, my old friend and our host, we felt very welcome indeed. My involvement with horse-racing goes back to when I was […]
Posted in General on May 20th, 2015
It’s been a while I know since I gave you a personal blog rather than one for general consumption. I truly have been pretty busy editing my new book coming out this fall. The book is called I Remember Horse Buns and below you’ll see a facsimile of what it will look like. It’s the […]
Posted in General on Apr 16th, 2015
A must read from my hero in the fishing field and hugely respected former DFO officer Otto Langer. – Rafe Q1. Did the government respond to this spill in an ‘exceptional way with an immediate measured response and with knowledgeable people and the equipment necessary for the clean-up’. This is near the exact press lines […]
Posted in General on Feb 13th, 2015
First, forgive my absence from these pages for so long however Wendy and I did take a short cruise punctuated, sad to say, by some hospitalization for me. Thankfully, I am on the mend! Today is true confessions day and there will be a lot of old friends rolling in their graves to learn what […]
Posted in General on Dec 20th, 2014
The stopping of the Kemano Completion Project is a true people’s victory. by Gordon Young In the eighteenth century Edmund Burke wrote that “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” In the last half of the twentieth century British Columbia saw evil almost triumph. Montreal-based multinational […]
Posted in General on Dec 3rd, 2014
It was not bad being a Montréal Canadiens fan when I was growing up during the 40’s. That decade was, however, dominated by the despised Toronto Maple Leafs so it was always an uphill battle. Incidentally, I was deprived of a sterling hockey career by a bit of bad luck – I never learned how […]
Posted in General on Nov 17th, 2014
The Vancouver Sun and Province have egg all over their collective faces after the election results in Vancouver and in Surrey. Both papers obviously did not want Gregor Robertson to win in Vancouver. Just why they supported the NPA is open to conjecture but one has to assume, reading these papers for the last 10 […]
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