Geoff
Olson is a Vancouver writer and graphic artist. His work
has appeared in The
Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post,
Maclean's, Adbusters, The Georgia Straight
and
This
Magazine. He is a
regular cartoonist and writer for Common
Ground magazine
and The
Vancouver Courier, and has
supplied commentary to both CBC Radio and CBC NewsWorld.
Olson's article series, The
Deadly Spins, has been
used as course content of several US and Canadian colleges,
and his Common
Ground essay on
malls appears in the 4th Canadian edition of the
Mcgraw-Hill textbook, Sociology. He has taught astronomy at
the Gordon Southam Observatory and the Vancouver School
System. One of his most memorable acheivements was behind
the wheel of his long-gone Fiat, when he led the federal
Rhinoceros Party motorcade through the streets of Vancouver
with a police motorcycle escort.
