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Recent work

• Pete McMartin: … and so, goodbye.Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Feb 3, 2017
• Pete McMartin: Who goes there? Friend or foe?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 27, 2017
• Pete McMartin: Cetaceans in captivity — Harpooned againOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 24, 2017
• Pete McMartin: A Toast! To the end of the B.C. wine industry as we know itOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 23, 2017
• Pete McMartin: Vancouver, a city on the edge of the continent, and itselfOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 17, 2017
• Pete McMartin: How to explain Trump? It's all about the (New) EconomyOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 13, 2017
• Pete McMartin: Former B.C. premier Mike Harcourt weighs in on drug legalizationOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 11, 2017
• Pete McMartin: Fentanyl, overdoses and the limits of pityOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 5, 2017
• Pete McMartin: Columns I Didn't Get Around to Writing, Vol. 3 – In Which I Tell Myself to Shut UpOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Dec 30, 2016
• Pete McMartin: The forces who would bring Trump's brand to CanadaOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Dec 25, 2016
• Pete McMartin: The past, and passing on, of ChristmasOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Dec 22, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Columns I didn't get around to writing in 2016 (Vol. 1) … or the grizzly truthOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Dec 14, 2016
• Strictly for the birds: The people who saved almost 600 parrotsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Dec 9, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Medical reports make up major chunk of ICBC expenditure, insiders revealOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Dec 7, 2016
• Pete McMartin: ICBC's death by a thousand fender bendersOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Dec 2, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Driving is getting old – The growing burden of seniors insuranceOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Nov 29, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Finding family of the late Allen Ross, a Second World War heroOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Nov 25, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Search for a long-gone, New West flight sergeant's familyOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Nov 23, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Oily politics, parochial interests and dead reindeerOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Nov 18, 2016
• Pete McMartin: A raspberry for the common manOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Nov 15, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Bridging generations gap brings a strengthened sense of familyOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Nov 4, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Tax deductions add to taxpayers' support of private schoolsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Nov 1, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Annual Hallowe'en Trick-or-Treat Count map hits the civic 'sweet spot'Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Oct 28, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Before Greatest Canadian vote, Tommy Douglas had darker pastOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Oct 25, 2016
• Pete McMartin: This is egalitarian Canada, so why should private schools get public money?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Oct 21, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Province already controls schools, so why bother with school boards?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Oct 18, 2016
• Pete McMartin: About that word . . . and the real obscenity of U.S. politicsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Oct 11, 2016
• Pete McMartin: In real estate limbo, how low can we go?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Oct 7, 2016
• Tsawwassen First Nation embraces retail with huge, 180-store Tsawwassen Mills outlet mallOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Oct 5, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Against raising the minimum wage? Try living on itOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Sep 23, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Can a neighbourhood be complicit in murder?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Sep 20, 2016
• Huge tax windfall highlights B.C. economy's dangerous dependence on real estateOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Sep 16, 2016
• Pete McMartin: California steaming in its age of uncertaintyOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Sep 13, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Is there a limit to social housing?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Aug 19, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Summer's rhythms remind us of life's many beatsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Aug 16, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Feminism bends over backwards at the OlympicsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Aug 12, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Reflecting back on those tiny steps forward that matteredOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Aug 9, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Modern Love – The Hard Drive Wants what the Hard Drive WantsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Aug 3, 2016
• Pete McMartin: We know who we are here in Canada, eh?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Jul 29, 2016
• Is racism part of the housing issue? Of course it isOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jul 8, 2016
• Arabic, English language exchange creates community connectionsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jun 28, 2016
• Pete McMartin: The Brexit fallout for a family the mourning afterOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jun 24, 2016
• Pete McMartin: North Van councillor Bond's homeowning dreams get a licence to chillOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jun 21, 2016
• Pete McMartin: A 'centre of gravity' stuck in the past, is there really a need to save nostalgic Chinatown?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Jun 17, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Reverse commute exposes backward transit systemOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jun 10, 2016
• Pete McMartin: As memory serves — D-Day's passingOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jun 7, 2016
• Pete McMartin: The emotional suffering of animalsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jun 3, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Airsick — The End of the In-Flight Meal?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · May 31, 2016
• Pete McMartin: No plan, no cooperation, no clue with B.C.'s unrapid transitOpinion · Vancouver Sun · May 27, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Out of Joint — "Elbowgate" and the Honourable IdiotsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · May 19, 2016
• Pete McMartin: The low price of real estate? Please contact …Opinion · Vancouver Sun · May 17, 2016
• Pete McMartin: America On The Move? Yankee, Stay HomeOpinion · Vancouver Sun · May 13, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Greenest city? Vancouver's conflicted relationship with treesOpinion · Vancouver Sun · May 10, 2016
• Pete McMartin: The son also rises — Donald Trump Jr. talks hotels and politicsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · May 5, 2016
• Pete McMartin: The stipend — paying the price of political officeOpinion · Vancouver Sun · May 3, 2016
• Pete McMartin: The long slow retreat in the war on drugsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Apr 26, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Political Acts — Gregor Wanting What He WantsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Apr 22, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Running on empty — The Westside loses its garagesOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Apr 15, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Memories and the grilled cheese sandwichOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Apr 12, 2016
• Pete McMartin: Burned by the Sharing Economy? Full of Hot AirbnbOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Apr 8, 2016