Ron Bolin: August 18, 2013 It is often noted that the Chinese word for crisis includes both the character for danger and that for opportunity.  While linguistically this interpretation comes under some criticism, it is certain that the concept of the dangers and the opportunities inherent in a crisis are understood in any language. Nanaimo’s […]

Ron Bolin: July 7, 2013 “Curses, foiled again!”  This classic phrase from Snidely Whiplash (or was it Dick Dastardly) could be imagined as emanating from the mouths of our City leaders as a BC Supreme Court  judge on Friday ignored their pleas to overturn the principle of “Innocent until proven guilty”.  Despite the City’s liberal […]

Ron Bolin: June 30, 2013 I say “we” because what the Council which we elected does is done in our name and we need to take responsibility for our actions.  It is too easy to talk about “them” and what “they” are doing.  We picked them, even if it was only about 14% of us […]

Ron Bolin: June 19, 2013 Monday’s was a banner meeting for City Council.  A black banner, I would say.  The issues were important, their treatment trivial and the fractures among Councillors obvious. To give my reasoning on these issues I will provide the text of the delegation comments as well as a brief review of […]

Ron Bolin: May 9, 2013 Think about it.  There will be a provincial election next week which will see either some new faces in an old party in power or some old faces in a new party in power.  From none of the participant parties have I heard much about the governance of our municipalities […]