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Old voices at UBCM will not keep us down. Watch us rise to the podium next time. Let Greens Speak!
Blog | Wednesday, 26 Sep 2007This morning the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) narrowly voted against letting the Leader of the Green Party of BC speak at their convention being held this week in Vancouver. The vote was 174 in...
We Agree: Governor of the Bank of Canada, David Dodge, says it's time to move to value-added industries
Blog | Wednesday, 26 Sep 2007Yesterday I attended a Vancouver Board of Trade luncheon talk by David Dodge, Governor of the Bank of Canada. I joined the Board of Trade a few months ago so I could get a better understanding of...
Off to the Body Shop
Blog | Wednesday, 19 Sep 2007That was, of course, Anita Roddick’s original wry reference. A car garage for spare parts installation. I will be heading to Ottawa General (tomorrow for tests and Friday for surgery) to get a new...
The Montreal Protocol
Blog | Saturday, 15 Sep 2007Tomorrow will be a great day in Montreal as the whole United Nations family gathers to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the negotiation of the Montreal Protocol. In September, 1987, Canada led...
A star goes out
Blog | Tuesday, 11 Sep 2007You probably know the name Anita Roddick. Maybe you have read about her as the phenomenon who launched Body Shop. I worked with her, knew her through a series of funny phone calls, met her husband...
Twenty-Six
Blog | Saturday, 08 Sep 2007Earlier this summer, Farley and Claire Mowat lent me a book they had really loved -- Twenty-Six. The author, Leo McKay, Jr., was born and raised in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. His first novel, Like...
Labour Day
Blog | Monday, 03 Sep 2007We drove back to Ottawa, my daughter and I, in our new Prius. Ordinarily, being car-less for so long, we would have flown or taken the train. We have had to fly for the last few years since VIA...
Home movies from Montebello
Blog | Thursday, 23 Aug 2007In case you missed it, here is the Youtube link showing the confrontation at Montebello between Union organizer Dave Coles, President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, and three...
Thoughts from the river
Blog | Wednesday, 15 Aug 2007Water was not just splashing; it was being shoveled into my lap as a team of keen, and somewhat inexperienced paddlers set out to conquer the event called the "dragon boat race". The Race on the...
Prius blog
Blog | Monday, 06 Aug 2007As readers of the Globe and Mail will know, I just got my new silver Prius! (I admit, parenthetically, that it is an odd sensation to know that the routine and mundane aspects of my life now seem to...