Opinion

I live in Vancouver.

I have been consumed with the tragic situation in Fort McMurray over the past two weeks. I cannot comprehend what it must be like to evacuate an entire city as forest fires draw near, and watch neighbourhoods burn to the ground.

You would think that in our city of Vancouver, a city loudly trumpeted by Mayor Gregor Robertson as the future “greenest city in the world,” they would be doing something about the growing practice of spraying insecticides containing neonicotinoids t

The digital revolution is breaking new ground every day. Technology has a way of doing that. I remember when Hewlett-Packard introduced its first “laptop” computer, which stored a page and a half of writing.

Selling Vancouver by the pound Re: “Expo’s troubled legacy,” April 28, 2016. In 1989, a 33x100 foot lot in East Van was about $200,000. Eighty-three hectares would equal some 2,280 plots. Add $50,000 each for being prime downtown water locations.

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Expo opinions Re: “Expo’s troubled legacy,” April 28, 2016. Expo 86 was one of the great what-if moments in Canadian history.

If people keep rapidly extracting and burning fossil fuels, there’s no hope of meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement climate change commitments.

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