British Museum Underground Station, London, 1937 The entire world has been rattled by the coronavirus pandemic (aka COVID-19) making it
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British Museum Underground Station, London, 1937 The entire world has been rattled by the coronavirus pandemic (aka COVID-19) making it
Continue readingWorking in public policy for the past several years I’ve come to appreciate that it’s common for those of us
Continue reading(Left) A modern multinational corporation requests more quantitative easing and government stimulus as a novel coronavirus ravages austerity crippled healthcare systems around the globe.
Continue readingWhen I moved to Vancouver twenty years ago to pursue a career in music and the performing arts I never
Continue readingEverything is under the microscope now. Not just the virus that causes COVID-19 but the society we created for ourselves, and it.
Continue readingThe Green Party is a party that began with relatively radical ideas put forward by relatively privileged people. It needs to put equity, diversity and inclusion at the centre of its growth efforts.
Continue readingAs a guest on Price Talks I talk about my experience over the last 10 years working at the intersections of public health, poverty, economic development and planning on the Price Talks podcast with editor Colin Stein (Formerly of the Vancouver Economic Commission and Downtown Kingston BIA).
Continue readingIt would be great to see a healthier dialogue between Alberta and BC regarding Canadian energy and our future development. Sadly, the bar just gets dragged lower and lower. It’s March 2018 and despite opposition from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, populist prairie politicians are voicing support for Alberta strangling British Columbia’s supply of domestic oil and gas.
Continue reading“Shitheads” that’s how Economic Development Minister Deron Bilous described British Columbians this week at a meeting of Albertan Municipal leaders. The same week that Alberta’s Speech from the Throne floated the idea of punishing BC by turning off the supply of oil and gas to the province, a sensible way to demonstrate just how much communities in BC need Bitumen to be shipped to China for motorists there.
Continue readingBritish Columbia and Alberta are perfectly poised to lead Canada’s transition to a more sustainable form of energy security and prosperity. Instead they have created a level of hostility and resentment I don’t think we’ve ever seen between the two provinces. It’s all fire and fury as threats of lawsuits are tossed over the Rockies into B.C., along with a boycott of B.C. wine and swearing off vacations here. All this for the B.C. government raising concerns over what could happen if a pipeline or tanker transporting hazardous materials ruptures and threatens thousands of jobs and entire industries.
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