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Environment

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The Trouble With Tories

What a crazy week in federal politics. It makes me nostalgic for my days as a trouble maker in the federal and provincial Liberal parties in the mid to late 80s in Ontario. Don’t get me wrong, I rolled up my sleeves and did a lot of hard work at the riding association level. It [...]

Civic Pride

Vancouver is a beautiful city, nestled between the mountains and the ocean there is no other place on earth like it. We all take pride in our city, the Sea Wall, our beaches, our parks and everything else that makes us unique. If anyone ever doubted that, it was made blaitantly obvious when there was [...]

Live Nostalgia

Watching some of the Live Earth concert on the weekend brought back lots of memories of being at Live Aid in 1985. Especially when they were talking about Madonna playing there. I was just days away from turning 19 and a friend called an mentioned another friend of his was selling off the last two [...]

Bottled Water Bad?

The cover of the new Maclean’s magazine asks the question, how much tap water are you willing to drink to save the planet? That’s a very interesting question. Especially to anyone living here on the Wet Coast (sic). We are constantly told to have 3 days of drinking water available in the case of an [...]