The Plant Rant

Awhile ago I posted several pieces on options and approaches to justice system reform that focus on process and structural changes.  Anoth...

Jogging into work this morning, it was damp and gray, but somehow the rain held off until the last few blocks before I reached my office. ...

(An edited version of this post appeared in the op-ed pages of the Vancouver Sun on March 20, 2012: http://bit.ly/GDPZNO) On a Sunday aft...

As Bill 22 winds its way towards a final vote this week, and BC prepares for the next chapter of the current teachers’ contract dispute, I...

The BC government’s recently announced justice reform project is largely focused on process – in essence, its goal is to identify and impl...

At about 4:30 on Friday afternoon, Janet and I left downtown Vancouver to drive to 100 Mile House for a family weekend in the Cariboo.  It...

It’s much easier to admire the wit in Rahm Emanuel’s famous dictum to "never let a serious crisis go to waste” than it is actually ...

On the whole, I'd rather it was May and Tuscany.

From Nelson Mandela here is a remarkably insightful statement about the practice of politics.  Perhaps this could be the basis of a New Year...

The Queen was not in residence.  We had to make do without her.

Everyone who knows me knows I have opinions.  Some people would even say that the phrase “Plant rant” is a very good way of describing (at l...

Here is a piece I wrote last month for the Ontario Bar Association newsletter: In its 2011 annual report, released in October, the BC Tre...