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Walking into the St. Regis Princeville Resort located on the north shore of Kauai during a recent visit, I went full-on Hawaiian tourist, snapping photos with not only my camera, but also my phone. We had been invited to visit the St.

Everybody knows how B.C. works, right? Corporations support the B.C. Liberals. Union leaders — if not all union members — support the NDP. Individual voters go into every election knowing that’s the broad lay of the land. B.C.

The battle lines are drawn – in some cases literally. On one side are those reaping massive profits from fossil fuels, determined to extract and sell as much as possible before the market dries up.

Since I started writing this column, there is one controversial Vancouver topic I have tended to avoid, until this week. I speak, of course, of bicycle lanes. In the interest of full disclosure, I own a bicycle, but do not ride it very often.

As a matter of political survival, junior levels of government tend to stay on the sidelines when senior levels are in election mode. That’s because you can never be sure who is going to win and you know you will be at the mercy of who ever does.

The Courier spoke to Jane Philpott by telephone last week