Opinion

By David Suzuki with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation's senior researcher and analyst Lisa Gue.

It seems that “change” is the rallying cry of our time. The word change has lately done yeoman’s service as a slogan in successive political campaigns.

Re: “Greenest city promise hit by regulator decision,” Dec. 9. I just read Mike Klassen’s piece on Creative Energy and district heat in Vancouver. I notice that the Courier had inserted a revision at the beginning of the piece.

Re: “Joo Kim Tiah — take down that sign,” Dec. 17. So much anguish over the Trump sign.

Bring the beer to the people Re: “ Are independent growler fill stations good for craft brewers ?”, Dec. 3, 2015. Interesting to read this in the Westender – since there isn’t anywhere in the west side of Vancouver to fill a growler.

I have always been fascinated by predictions. At the end of 2014, I reviewed my first year as a Vancouver Courier columnist.

Considering the time of the year, I thought – for a millisecond – that I should bring a little cleverness to this piece and knock out a riff on the Clement Clarke Moore classic, “A visit from St. Nicholas.

Christmas came early for most Canadians. On Oct. 19, to be exact, the day the vast majority of us successfully voted to get rid of Stephen Harper. We woke the following morning to a new reality.

Re: “Greenest city promise hit by regulator decision,” Dec. 9.