Gordon Clark
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Past articles by Gordon:
Deidra Garyk: Why I work in oil and gas
Opinion: “When (environmentalists) attack the industry, they’re not attacking some abstract corporate entity — they’re attacking me” → Read More
Tobias Wilczek: Young people are exerting a greater influence on world politics
With major votes occurring within the span of five months this year, the European Union and Canadian federal elections are critical in deciding our planet’s future. The results of the EU election — in which each European country elects an allotted number of representatives to the EU parliament — have already resulted in big changes, […] → Read More
Lucy Sager: Indigenous drivers and the road to reconciliation
The road to reconciliation is much easier with a set of keys and a driver's licence → Read More
David Orchard: Why are Canadian gov’ts doing the Kinder Morgan kowtow?
A thousand years ago, the Chinese Middle Kingdom regarded the regions around it as being made up of barbarians. These areas were either controlled by Chinese military power or regarded as satellites. → Read More
Gordon Clark: Getting straight home assessment facts during B.C. election campaign
I've received a fair bit of email lately from New Westminster and Vancouver homeowners concerned about what aggressive heritage policies in those cities are doing to property values. → Read More
Gordon Clark: The lack of truth in election campaigns never fails to frustrate
Columnist Gord Clark writes about how politicians' behaviour on the campaign trail always let him down. → Read More
Opinion: B.C. parties need to get finally serious about seniors care
You can hardly open a newspaper or news website these days without finding an article on the difficulties of the sandwich generation — those poor folks simultaneously coping with the needs of children and aging parents. Well, here’s another. → Read More
Gordon Clark: Judge’s comments at start of sex-assault trial taken out of context
Media reports on comments by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Peter Leask in a Kamloops sex-assault trial that prompted complaints to the Canadian Judicial Council are inaccurate on some points and take the judge’s comments out of context. → Read More
Gordon Clark: Judge’s comments at start of sex-assault trial taken out of context
Media reports on comments by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Peter Leask in a Kamloops sex-assault trial that prompted complaints to the Canadian Judicial Council are inaccurate on some points and take the judge’s comments out of context. → Read More
Gord Clark: Vancouver City Hall interference taxes homeowners’ patience
Of the numerous offensive, vaguely totalitarian initiatives inflicted on Vancouverites by Mayor Gregor Robertson and the Visionistas, the Empty Homes Tax must be the worst. → Read More
Gordon Clark: What’s with the complaints against progress?
The provincial government announced this week that it will contribute $113 million toward the $235-million cost of widening Highway 1 between Langley and Abbotsford, which will reduce traffic congestion and make life easier for commuters. Naturally, critics attacked the government. → Read More
Gordon Clark: Earth Hour is a dim-bulb exercise in hypocrisy
Is there anything more useless than Earth Hour? I know Vancouver is pretending to be the Greenest Metropolis in the known universe, or whatever, and that some British Columbians may wish to burn me at the stake with biofuel or hemp straw for spouting such heresy, but what exactly is the point of... → Read More
Gordon Clark: Email change proves deal breaker for bundling telecom services
As they have with many folks in Vancouver, smiling young Telus agents have been dropping by recently, trying to sign us up for their company's new fibre-optic network. → Read More
Gordon Clark: Federal Liberals spend on Lower Mainlanders, while piling on debt
Columnist Gordon Clark reacts to the federal budget from the point of view of a Lower Mainlander. → Read More
Gordon Clark: Even in B.C., the buyer should be aware
I find myself reacting lately to some financial stories that have made their way into the headlines — but not in ways I suspect the protagonists of these stories would wish. → Read More
Gordon Clark: Our DNA shows just how stupid is it to hate others
If you decide to be anti-Semitic toward someone, there's a good chance they may have a little Viking in them — or even a lot. → Read More
Gordon Clark: Our DNA shows just how stupid is it to hate others
If you decide to be anti-Semitic toward someone, there's a good chance they may have a little Viking in them — or even a lot. → Read More
Gordon Clark: Fight over Vision’s Point Grey mega-project heats up again
This is the mess Vision has created by filling up city hall with bureaucrats more interested in pushing Vision's green agenda. → Read More
Gordon Clark: It’s no longer acceptable to keep cetaceans in captivity
The Vancouver Aquarium has been a part of my life for decades, as it has been for most Vancouverites. → Read More
Gordon Clark: Leave private school funding alone
With the provincial election looming, the B.C. Teachers' Federation and others are once again flogging the dead horse of public funding for independent schools — although, I suppose, no horse is ever truly dead in politics. → Read More