Let me tell you a very, very, very sad story. In a previous life I went out with an exceptionally fine Indo-Canadian gal. She was a Sikh. We studied at UBC together. Loved going to the movies. Took frequent trips to Seattle for weekends. Took super-long walks. It was wonderful. Though, it wasn’t just the [...]

I’m not an activist. Not unless you consider what I do on the Downtown Eastside (DTES) teaching at risk kids to stay away from drugs or you look at any of the other quiet time I spend helping adult addicts out where I can. I spent several years, boots on the ground, right at ground [...]

Six years ago, one very early morning, I was sitting in the lobby bar of the Sheraton Guilford waiting for a friend to meet me for breakfast. It was a fairly sunny late summer day and I was on my way to Scottsdale on business that afternoon. I hadn’t a minute to waste and was [...]

This morning, we’re greeted with the news that the Surrey Vaisakhi organizers have issued an apology. Before I get to the text of their efforts to make amends, let me tell you why this might be… Firstly, you can thank Surrey Mayor Dianne Megawatts for having the political fortitude and solid principles to stand up [...]

When I wrote last week about how appalling it is see so many political scandals in the Indo-Canadian community over the years–an otherwise honourable and decent ethnic group, I couldn’t have predicted that one day later, that same community would be adding to the list. For Surrey’s Vaisakhi organizer(s) to suggest that MLA Dave Hayer [...]

Answer:  Nothing, frankly.  Except that on Friday Keith Baldrey gave us the kind of spin Gordon Campbell would be proud of and on Saturday Elizabeth May further shamed this country and her party by, once more, exhibiting a bad case of ‘Nazi Fixation Syndrome’. Firstly, let’s have at Keith Baldrey a tad… On Friday morning, [...]

I have not been a fan of the Olympics since the very first drug scandal that I can remember.  I was quite young but the memory is still vivid of a panel announcement about some Eastern European athlete being stripped of his medal because he was taking something you might want to give your horse [...]

I could have started with the Yankees win, and how we are just too quick to forgive millionaire androids over-loaded with testosterone, or blogged about the great victory in Ottawa for long gun owners and all taxpayers, or even how the global warming alarmists are in a massive panic, since their fallacy continues to unravel, [...]

This is perhaps a long time in coming. Too long, for some, who have complained, bitterly, about why they couldn’t get my columns or thoughts whenever they wanted to.  I had promised myself, that, eventually, if I had to succumb to the forces pushing against more traditional forms of print,  radio and television media, that [...]