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Maxed Out

Colouring outside the lines

By G.D. Maxwell By the time I left Myrtle Philip Saturday, midway through the futuristic open house, the parking lot was full. The driveway to the parking lot was full.

Wading into the future

by G.D. Maxwell One of the reasons people get all nostalgic about the past is because they think they know what happened then. At least they think they know what happened in the part of the past they actually lived through… their past.

Cost-cutting, right to the phalanx

By G.D. Maxwe The Rt. Hon. Gordon Campbell Premie of all British Columbia Victoria, B.C. Dear Slash: I’m certain you’ll forgive my presumption, using your nickname, but it is that very subject about which I write.

Word from the north: winter’s comin’

By G.D. Maxwell Winter’s come to Smilin’ Dog Manor. Like so many of British Columbia’s weather-related phenomena this year, it announced itself with a bang, a drunken, slobbering brute of a guest barging in unannounced and unexpected.

A time for warm thoughts

By G.D. Maxwell First fire, now flood. What next? Pestilence? Plague? Famine? Maybe locusts? I don’t know whether it’s time to get right with Jesus or just move to higher ground. But this clearly seems to be the season of reckoning.

A winter season primer for newbies

By G.D.

Half a golf course to keep community whole

By G.D. Maxwell Regular readers of Pique often refer to Bob Barnett as the Voice of Reason.

Distinguishing between the black hole and the goal

By G.D. Maxwell Mr. Mike Vance c/o Muni Hall Whistler (we’re part of the Olympics too) B.C. Dear Mike: Heard you’re headed back to Whistler to breathe life into the limp body of Tiny Town’s sustainability plan. ‘Bout time.

This space for rent

by G.D. Maxwell One thing I’ve always prided myself on – yeah, I know, another deadly sin – is an easy ability to ‘fess up when I’m wrong.

Back to school, and stay there

By G.D. Maxwell The surgeon who reattached all the things that differentiate my finger from a salami threatened to void my warranty if I touched a keyboard this week.