It is a privilege to be a political assistant. In Victoria and later (hocking speeches in Ottawa) I always thought I was getting more play than I deserved. I thought we all did, at least those of us lucky enough to get the call. In those days, responsibility beckoned. You didn’t do $500.00 dinners and [...]

I’m not going to spend a great deal of time on this one since the story tells itself. Gordon Campbell is a coward–pure and simple. After his pals in government gift-wrapped his ‘Order of BC’ and bent the rules–to breaking, he didn’t have the courtesy to show up, knowing full well the embarrassment he’d have [...]

I do not admire Bill Gates much. I find him rather aloof and terribly arrogant. Warren Buffet is much more than a tad hypocritical when he calls for increased taxes on the wealthy while his decade long argument with the IRS is a legal battle of attrition. Paul Allen is more my speed. But I [...]

I don’t usually do public appearances as it ends up being about me and not the event. Certainly, there are members of the press or media that have much higher profiles and great star power. I’m not one of them because I have worked awfully hard to ensure I can have dinner at a restaurant [...]

There is no possible way to describe my utter disgust and total contempt for the ‘Occupy Vancouver’ movement–my rapidly growing disgust and contempt–but I’ll surely try. Not only have they wasted everyone’s time with whining, complaining and a total lack of answers to problems we all acknowledge and are concerned about, but they have committed [...]

There is a peculiar dynamic in this country, which too often manifests itself prior to death, and it’s called ‘Sainthood.’ I haven’t the foggiest as to why this is. But it’s very, very strange to me. The people who hurt us, we not only reward lavishly; we commit them to apotheoses, which are as unholy [...]

While you’re reading this (yes, I know, Presto! piece on the way) Premier Clark will be, once again, taking credit for something she has absolutely nothing to do with. She’s at Kitsilano High School–one of the better high schools in the Lower Mainland, to announce that there will be a new school and it’ll be [...]

Some days, the stories write themselves. For a week now, we’ve been greeted with the news that due to the typical incompetence and stubbornness of the BC Liberal government, YOU and I are now on the hook for an additional $30,000,000 since they unceremoniously pulled the rug out from under Boss Power, who had three [...]

Not four days ago we were treated to the following quote by the Mayor of Vancouver: As told to several media outlets, this one verbatim, from CKWX News 1130: “Well, there is actually something being done; we’ve got people from the city negotiating with the organizers (of ‘Occupy Vancouver’) and we’re trying to come to [...]

In the last three years, every major decision Suzanne Anton has committed to while on council has been anchored in no less murky, enviro-fascist water than the one Vision Vancouver ably navigates. Anton has never once supported a reasonable initiative, instead choosing to hop aloft the Vision eco-nasty bandwagon and financially enslave Vancouverites to the [...]