While America voted for a president whose motto, “Yes, we can,” indicates how willing he and his team are to embrace change, it looks like the city I live in — Victoria, BC — is about to slide into another stultifying episode of Status Quo Stagnation. Check out Vibrant Victoria‘s blog post, VLC and CUPE […]
Barack Obama: Youth To Pull Up Pants For Obama! Terrific ~30 sec video clip included on this page: QUOTE Barack Obama did an interview with yesterday with Sway, MTV’s official friendly ambassador from the land of hip hop. A viewer asked him about towns that try to pass laws banning baggy pants. First Obama said […]
Les Leyne had an interesting article in today’s local paper, Cement industry fears carbon tax squeeze, which prompted me to write a letter to the editor in response. It seems to me that this problem offers an opportunity for some disruptive creative thinking, which could create a win-win situation for municipalities and industry. Some key […]
I found this via Kazys Varnelis’s Facebook page, and have facebooked and twittered it on already. But it’s so good, I have to blog it, too: (source)
“What could have been,” by Christopher Hume (TheStar.com | Columns & Blogs) Hume discusses a new book about Toronto, “Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been,” by Mark Osbaldeston. What I find compelling for my interest in Victoria is Hume’s reference at the start to “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (which immediately […]
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