Opinion

What would it be like if we lived in an NDP world, you ask? It would be awesome — if you were a whistleblower, a locavore confined to hospital or a ferry rider who prefers sailing on Canadian-made, preferably B.C.-made, vessels.

It definitely feels like summer in Vancouver with rising temperatures and the emergence of higher hemlines. Luckily, there’s lots of great sales everywhere and clothing in general is more affordable during this season compared to any other season.

You’ve probably heard Mayor Gregor Robertson is out there campaigning for a speculation tax. I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago. So, it seems, did every other journo in this town.

It seems there isn’t a week that goes by without some sort of comparison or ranking of Vancouver’s merits or l ack thereof , followed by local media lapping it up like Pavlov’s slobbering dog.

We’re surrounded by life, but Earth’s most plentiful living things are invisible to the naked eye. Microbes are not only around us, they live on and in us.

Mudslinging against millennials ignores reality

One of my favourite cinematic scenes occurs in Woody Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall. While standing in a movie lineup, Allen is upset by a pretentious academic pontificating about Marshall McLuhan’s work.

This week I feel emboldened to offer some modest solutions to a few newsworthy problems. Problem.

When Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson publicly pitched the idea of a “speculation tax” as a way of taking the wild ride out of Vancouver’s real estate rodeo, he said: “It’s clear that rampant speculation on real estate is driving prices up in Vancouv

I’m so bored that I thought I’d knock out a piece on why Vancouver is “mind-numbingly boring.” At least that’s the description a correspondent from The Economist, writing under the pseudonym Gulliver, used in a May 21 post about our fair city.