Alistair Taylor

1 week ago | campbellrivermirror.com | Alistair Taylor

Long-suffering. If there's words that describe my sports fandom best its those two. Long-suffering. I've been a Vancouver Canucks fan since the late 1970s. That qualifies me as long-suffering, as in a long-suffering Vancouver Canucks fan. That's me. And as bad as that is – and it's bad – I have to compound it with another affliction. I am also a long-suffering Canada soccer fan. Sorry, football fan. The men's national team that is. The women's team is a different ball of wax.

1 month ago | campbellrivermirror.com | Alistair Taylor

In the collage of photographs under the heading 'Where to Next?", a thin bridge spanning a dreamy forestscape like a shallow smile caught my eye. "Wait, is that...?" I thought. Yes, it was the Elk Falls Suspension Bridge. It was an article in – do they still call it Canada's National Newspaper?

1 month ago | northislandgazette.com | Alistair Taylor

Now that the dust is settling after one of Canada’s most remarkable federal elections ever, I thought I’d make a few observations, because, well, that’s one of the things they pay me to do. I was trying to think off the top of my head how many federal elections I’ve voted in since, what’s the voting age, 18? Although I wasn’t able to vote in the first ones I was age-eligible because I wasn’t a citizen, even though I’d been in Canada since I was 8.

1 month ago | campbellrivermirror.com | Alistair Taylor

Now that the dust is settling after one of Canada’s most remarkable federal elections ever, I thought I’d make a few observations, because, well, that’s one of the things they pay me to do. I was trying to think off the top of my head how many federal elections I’ve voted in since, what’s the voting age, 18? Although I wasn’t able to vote in the first ones I was age-eligible because I wasn’t a citizen, even though I’d been in Canada since I was 8.

2 months ago | campbellrivermirror.com | Alistair Taylor

The federal election is a couple of weeks into the campaign and it's turned out to be nothing like anybody expected. Prior to Christmas, polls indicated that it was going to be a lock for the Conservative Party to form the next government. Now, I know there's enough evidence to suggest you can't trust polls. The old saying is that the only poll you can trust is the one on election day. But by all estimates, predictions and analyses, the Conservatives had this one in the bag.