Kirk LaPointe
Contributor at Freelance
Glacier Media, The Hub Columnist; UBC Journalism Adjunct Professor; Board Chair KidSafe Project Society, Board Director Vancouver Opera. Goalie, runner/jogger.
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2 weeks ago |
timescolonist.com | Kirk LaPointe
A mid-term byelection is usually considered a referendum on the ruling party. Vancouver’s ABC (A Better City) municipal party had better hope not. It has 18 months to make sure not. To use the party’s acronym here, let’s just agree the rookie crew has found governing to be A Bigger Challenge than it expected. To be honest, the party was never formed out of A Basic Coherence of ideology or purpose.
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2 weeks ago |
castanet.net | Kirk LaPointe
Wednesday was Donald Trump’s proclaimed Liberation Day in the United States. It was the day his administration’s senses were liberated as they mistook tariffs for economic salvation, the day American consumers could look forward to their savings being liberated as they soon pay more for imported goods, and the day U.S. businesses can anticipate being liberated from keeping their workforces on their payrolls as countries eschew and tax American products.
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3 weeks ago |
biv.com | Kirk LaPointe
Wednesday was Donald Trump’s proclaimed Liberation Day in the United States. It was the day his administration’s senses were liberated as they mistook tariffs for economic salvation, the day American consumers could look forward to their savings being liberated as they soon pay more for imported goods, and the day U.S. businesses can anticipate being liberated from keeping their workforces on their payrolls as countries eschew and tax American products.
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3 weeks ago |
castanet.net | Kirk LaPointe
It is a personal, visceral fight neither Pierre Poilievre nor Mark Carney can afford to lose, and an election the country cannot afford to get wrong. Ideally, this 45th general election will infuse optimism into Canada as we chart our most uncertain course since the Quebec Crisis tore into our psyche and instilled existential fear about our country’s stability more than a half-century ago.
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3 weeks ago |
castanetkamloops.net | Kirk LaPointe
It is a personal, visceral fight neither Pierre Poilievre nor Mark Carney can afford to lose, and an election the country cannot afford to get wrong. Ideally, this 45th general election will infuse optimism into Canada as we chart our most uncertain course since the Quebec Crisis tore into our psyche and instilled existential fear about our country’s stability more than a half-century ago.
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For @TheHubCanada today, getting off the #Election2025 train and on to something else that matters: Is this the year the Stanley Cup comes home? https://t.co/qGldNTks3x
My take on the Wednesday and Thursday federal leader televised bickering. https://t.co/X6Drs0Opqh
Even on a sunny afternoon when I should have been at the driving range, @TheMasters was the best choice for the day. More unpredictable than the tariff threats. More emotionally satisfying, too.
Rory McIlroy wins epic Masters in playoff, completes career grand slam https://t.co/J7yu742g6f