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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.&#...
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...
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...
