Has there been a misdiagnosis when it comes to Vancouver’s housing market?

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, right?

So right off the bat, I’m going to offer up a couple of mea culpas from my journalism over the years.

More than a decade ago, I became keenly interested in the topic of peak oil. It began after I read The Party’s Over by Richard Heinberg. My fascination carried on for several years, thanks to a bunch of other books.

I wasn’t alone. Authors Michael Klare, Kevin Phillips, Dmitry Orlov, Jeff Rubin, Jeremy Leggett, Matthew Simmons, and others also banged this drum. One of the earliest Cassandras was Scientific American, which published a very influential article on this topic in 1998 called “The End of Cheap Oil”.

There were graphs like the famous Hubbert curve, created by U.S. geologist M. King Hubbert, that declared an inevitable crash in oil supplies. The resulting high prices would grind the world economy to a halt.

But it turned out that HIV was indeed the cause of AIDS. Thanks to some brilliant Vancouver researchers, HIV/AIDS has been converted into a chronic disease rather than an automatic death sentence. And one day, Vancouver’s Dr. Julio Montaner may win a Nobel Prize for this accomplishment.

It demonstrated once again that sometimes the experts know a lot more than lay people about complicated subjects.

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During the Canada Post strike announced September 25, 2025, the following measures will be undertaken to minimize service disruption to BC-CfE clients and providers.

  • The BC-CfE Laboratory has transitioned to private courier for delivery of outgoing reports and documents. Results required urgently can be faxed upon request. (Lab Contact Information: Phone 604-806-8775; FAX 604-806-9463)
  • The BC-CfE Drug Treatment Program (DTP) will fax outgoing forms and documents to the provider’s office. (DTP Contact Information: Phone 604-806-8515; FAX 604-806-9044)
  • St. Paul’s Hospital Ambulatory Pharmacy has transitioned to private courier for delivery of medications. We recommend requesting medication at least 2 weeks in advance in case of delivery delays, particularly to rural/remote parts of BC. (Contact Information: Phone 1-800-547-3622; FAX 604-806-8675)

During the Canada Post strike, we recommend that documents be faxed or couriered to our sites, versus utilization of regular mail service

The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’.
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