Opinion

The human capacity to deny the obvious is truly infinite.

It’s things like the kiss-off Michael Graydon got when he left the B.C. Lottery Corp. that make you wonder about the core review and the B.C. Liberals’ purported vigilance when it comes to maintaining austerity.

Re: “UBC board appoints new president,” March 19.

Re: “Vision commissioners call for end of whale captivity at aquarium,” April 4.

In his recent decision to burn his NDP membership card, former premier Mike Harcourt cited the party’s decision to nix the carbon tax along with Adrian Dix’s election opposition to a twinned Kinder Morgan pipeline.

A few New Democrats will be grieving ex-leadership candidate Mike Farnworth’s surrender on Tuesday and bemoaning the lost opportunity to build excitement over the next six months.

You all remember Suzanne Anton, don’t you? Of course you do. The former NPA park board commissioner and city councillor —who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2011 — is now the provincial justice minister and attorney general.

This week, a day after the Canucks’ sweat-prone, rosy-cheeked president and GM Mike Gillis was given the boot, retired player and fan favourite Trevor Linden was introduced as the new president of hockey operations for this city’s underachieving, soo

Christopher Bates is a Canadian designer on fire. Not only has he been named by Sharp Magazine as one of the top six designers in Canada, his line has also been picked up by Holt Renfrew and is available in their Vancouver location.