Opinion

There’s an old joke that says drinking rum in the morning doesn’t make you an alcoholic, it means you’re a pirate.

It’s certainly not like when our parents were growing up. My mom often told me that she just doesn’t get it and that the newer generation makes it much harder on themselves than they need to.

Things I did not know last week but now happy to report this week in a random dumping of scribblings from my notebook after attending Vision Vancouver’s “spring fling” May 21 at the Coast Plaza hotel in the West End: • Michael Graydon, the former hea

Climate change is real. How real is it? It’s so real that the hard working communications staff at the City of Vancouver gave up part of their Saturday to send out a press release about the evils of climate change.

To the editor: Re: “ Affordable housing tops list of voter worries ,” May 14. I found the last words of Michael Geller’s opinion piece on affordable housing to be facile and irksome.

To the editor: Re: “‘ Disgusting’ SRO mired in red tape ,” May 16.

Over the past year we’ve noticed a disturbing trend on Facebook, and it has nothing to with the unsolicited updates of how often our mother plays Candy Crush.

Spring is here, the grass has riz and if you are wondering where many of those Vision party supporters “is,” well 500 of them were at the Coast Hotel on Comox Street in the West End Wednesday night. It was Vision’s Spring Fling thing.