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B.C. Liberals debt plan may impact social housing

I was as surprised as you were. When I turned on the tube shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday night I saw the numbers, then listened to the pundits and the party hacks say it was still “too early” to tell.

Going to church at a community centre

It’s hard not to admire a church and its pastor for holding their fundamentalist Christian services at a community centre in a neighbourhood with a growing gay population.

Choose only the best exotic pet

People often ask me, “Matthew, what is the best exotic pet, and where can I get one?”

Automatic for the rich people

The well-heeled folks who buy supercars seem to have fallen out love with using their left legs.

Adrian Dix’s Kinder Morgan call written in Green ink

Nobody was happier than Vancouver-Point Grey NDP candidate David Eby when his leader Adrian Dix abandoned his “principled” position to wait and see on the Kinder Morgan pipeline on Earth Day and firmly came out against the project.

Twenty reasons why I’m not voting Liberal

The 24-hour news cycle doesn’t favour long-term memory. The continuing fallout from the December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, barely registered a blip in the mainstream media by the time the U.S. Senate snuffed a tepid gun control bill in April.

Give consent to your teen to see play on date rape

About five years into performing her hit play Dissolve, playwright and actor Meghan Gardiner recalls a young man approaching her after the show to ask her questions about consent. It was an atypical moment.

In B.C. elections, issues change but not much else

Glanced at a campaign brochure this week from Oak Bay-Gordon Head. The candidate’s main pitch was the “lack of wholesome government, irresponsible promises and inaccurate and distasteful TV advertising which generates fear and mistrust.”

Changes coming to Vancouver's Point Grey Road

Except for the prospect of a hockey mom running a red light early in the morning, nothing makes me more nervous than encountering a cyclist threading the needle between my vehicle and a line of parked cars as we proceed west on Cornwall Avenue in rush hour.

New Subaru WRX Impreza makes an impression

Rally-racing and Subarus are as closely woven together as the Gore-Tex fibres that make up the clothes of the people who buy them.

From sociology to philosophy to apology

Most readers have probably heard about the Prime Minister’s rejection of Justin Trudeau’s advice we explore “the root causes” of terrorism.

Would your personal history pass muster in politics?

We’ve all done it apparently. Purposely running a red light that is. I’m talking, of course, about B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark’s regrettable decision to run a red light very early one morning after being egged on by her 11-year-old son.

Leaders’ debate akin to watching parents argue

If B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix wins the May 14 election, there’s going to be a lot more arguments over the finer points.

NDP no better than Liberals on big Vancouver issues

Let me ask you to suspend your disbelief for a moment. Consider that what we are seeing in the provincial election campaign that was officially kicked of this week, is actually a two-horse race.

Thatcher’s spell created socialism for the rich

“Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher forced Britain, kicking and screaming, to abandon its tired and tattered security blanket of a class-ridden and hierarchical society,” reads the caption below a picture of the baroness on the front page of the April 9 Vancouver Sun.