Opinion

Humans are the world’s top predator. The way we fulfil this role is often mired in controversy, from factory farming to trophy hunting to predator control.

Silence is golden Autumn is approaching, dry leaves are falling, and the leaf blowers are once again out in force.

I return to the city five weeks after Christy Clark’s 15 per cent tax on real estate sales to foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver went into effect to find a once buoyant market in serious decline.

On one of the last hot days in August, I made my way to the beach with a dog-eared paperback translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters To a Young Poet.

Naked truth I love Vancouver and our beaches. We have Third Beach, Second Beach, English Bay, Sunset Beach, Kits Beach, Jericho Beach, Spanish Banks... Just a few of the many beach choices in Vancouver.

It’s been shocking to watch news of the Brexit vote in Britain, Donald Trump’s promise to build a wall between Mexico and the US and the ongoing threats and violence against ethnic minorities in many parts of the world.

Some weeks back while perusing social media, I spotted the hashtag #FirstSevenJobs (and later #first7jobs) trending on my Twitter feed. Here is the list of first jobs I posted.

I recently spent a few days in Montreal and came back with a number of observations and ideas that Vancouver might want to consider. Here are seven, in no particular order.