Last week I printed google-map directions from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Media Centre to their National Convention Centre.  I then followed these directions.
At 10:23am, I left the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Media Centre/Convention Centre and using only the times and directions on the map from Beijing, I ended up at the point at which [...]

It can’t be easy being a Republican these days.
Not only did you soundly lose the last presidential election, but you control neither the house nor the senate. Odd feeling for a party that’s previously controlled the legislature for nearly 12 years.
Now, with the recent passing of health care reform, many of the pillars of the [...]

Well, the results are in and it turns out that just because you oversaw a regime replete with corruption in an election campaign dominated by headlines like: Quebec corruption crackdown yields 10 arrests, Montrealers say they won’t let systemic corruption stop them from voting, and Montreal Mafia controls 80 per cent of road contracts, whistleblower [...]

The implosion of political parties isn’t anything new to BC politics.
Over my lifetime, we’ve seen the total destruction of the Socreds and the near total destruction of the BCNDP a half a decade later here in BC.
All of this has left Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals sitting pretty on the centre right of the [...]

Literacy, both reading-and-writing and community literacy, are critical components of a strong community.
Informed discussion, enlightened imagination, and literal comprehension are the pillars of an active and engaged people. They enable organization, planning, and debate; all of which are critical to a healthy and functioning society.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of libraries and literacy.
While [...]

Right now there is an uproar over the provincial government’s plan to introduce HST. The plan is to harmonize provincial sales tax with GST bringing PST into a whole bunch of industries (restaurants, grocery stores among others) which had up to this point avoided them.
Business points to this new tax and scream about layoffs and [...]

These days things are starting to heat up with the coming provincial election. Both the NDP and BC Liberals are campaigning like mad. While Gordon Campbell champions his environmental policy and economic plans in the oil and gas sector up north, Carol James is lampooning the controversial carbon tax, trying to wave it around like [...]