An early Christmas present found its way out of Vancouver City Hall just over two weeks ago when its newly minted mayor Gregor Robertson gave then-city manager, Judy Rogers, walking papers, and replaced her with Dr. Penny Ballem. Why Ballem, B.C.’s former top health care bureaucrat — who was just recently working in the private [...]

Some time recently, the Globe and Mail appears to have changed its hyphen-use style to make it commonly pervasive in every report’s prose. To wit, whereas a $100-million deficit would amount to $100 million, it now reads ‘$100-million’ — modifier, modifying, or not — mostly across the board. An example story: here. To be honest, [...]

I’m back to blogging. Again. Finally, and after a lengthy departure since this summer. But, in some Dave Barry sense, ‘I am not making this up’. My neck was broken in July, just as holistic elements in my life had started to come together. I have since struggled with surgery, rehabilitation and relocation. I am [...]

Let me apologize in advance, but: CBC’s Dec. 10 story describes how a bus-versus-thrift-store accident in New Westminster bears witness to some basic Dragnet-like news reporting — “just the facts ma’am,” and all that. Essentially, it details how a recently, renovated Salvation Army thrift store wall gave way to gravity and thus the the wheels [...]