Montreal We were sitting cheek to jowl in the back section of a Lufthansa flight from Nairobi to Frankfurt. I was transferring from a Kenya Airlines flight from Kampala to Nairobi and then going forward in hops to Frankfurt, Chicago, and finally New Orleans. The attendants and a percentage of the passengers were German of …
Category: Ideas and Issues
A.M.R. or A.M.I. Not?
Montreal As housing becomes a larger and larger issue in city after city around the world in the throes of development and attendant gentrification, not only has inclusionary zoning in new construction of units become an issue, but so have the policy questions of how to define affordability. In campaign discussions at the ACORN Canada …
Random Travel Tips – Part 2 – Thorn Tree, Uber, and Kindle
Montreal We are continuing to double down on travel tips. Let’s start with Lonely Planet. For a current generation this used to be the go-to place to get a sense of what’s possible and what’s affordable in a new country. It’s still valuable, but rarely as current as a traveler needs it to be in …