Reading Time: 3 minutes Millennials would like to buy a house and raise a family in Vancouver. It’s not going to happen
Author: Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson’s career combined his academic training in Law and Anthropology at UBC and Oxford University, in frontier regulatory compliance work at Petro-Canada and PolarGas, and the leadership of three national NGOs: The Arctic Institute of North America, The Glenbow Alberta Institute, and The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art. In addition, he has chaired the national boards of Friends of the Earth, The David Suzuki Foundation, and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. In 2004 he became a Member of the Order of Canada.
What’s the BIG deal with Trump?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The world may be watching the final act of the final presumptive emperor of the American empire
What Rocky Harbour could teach government
Reading Time: 3 minutes When governments fail to act in conserving resource royalties, families step in to recycle the boom-times cash
The simple wisdom of happy warriors
Reading Time: 3 minutes To truly connect with something important, we need to learn to carefully assess and embrace risk
What I found when I went down the rabbit hole with Mum
Reading Time: 4 minutes I wanted my Mum to experience life in the country as she had when she was young in Revelstoke and, later, Williams Lake
My 93-year-old mom is still full of adventure
Reading Time: 3 minutes Out of the blue offer your Mom a week-long vacation at your house in the country, without wife or children to help out
My Mini Cooper gave its life to spare me
Reading Time: 3 minutes Routine check stop blocking two lanes of traffic led to a hit and run and the end of the line for my Mini Cooper
Conservation giant Jim Boulding’s legacy remains vibrant
Reading Time: 4 minutes Along with Vancouver Island legends like elder George Clutesi and author Roderick Haig-Brown, Jim Boulding influenced a generation
Disruption is everywhere and it appears we crave it
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dying business models, political party fragmentation, climate change refugees, country shopping: welcome to the new age of disruption
A visit to Vancouver’s fast approaching underwater future
Reading Time: 3 minutes What will life be like in Vancouver in 2046, once climate change kicks in?