Steve Burgess

Cheapskate in Lotus Land, the new book by writer/humourist Steve Burgess, delivers what he promises in the subtitle: “ The Philosophy and Practice of Living Well on a Small Budget.” A myriad of brief chapters range over everything from transportation to shopping to his contented life as a long-time tenant in an older apartment building near Lost Lagoon in Vancouver’s West End.

[Editor's note: Steve Burgess is an accredited spin doctor with a PhD in Centrifugal Rhetoric from the University of SASE, situated on the lovely campus of PO Box 7650, Cayman Islands.

[Editor's note: Steve Burgess is an accredited spin doctor with a PhD in Centrifugal Rhetoric from the University of SASE, situated on the lovely campus of PO Box 7650, Cayman Islands.

Well, we know she’s at home in a gravel pit and handy with a shovel.

[Editor's note: Steve Burgess is an accredited spin doctor with a PhD. in Centrifugal Rhetoric from the University of SASE, situated on the lovely campus of PO Box 7650, Cayman Islands.

[Editor's note: Steve Burgess is an accredited spin doctor with a PhD in Centrifugal Rhetoric from the University of SASE, situated on the lovely campus of PO Box 7650, Cayman Islands.

I arrived in Brandon, Manitoba, as the river was rising. So is church-based climate activism.

[Editor's note: Steve Burgess is an accredited spin doctor with a PhD in Centrifugal Rhetoric from the University of SASE, situated on the lovely campus of PO Box 7650, Cayman Islands.

Money bends the rules. But as the FIFA fiasco shows, fans can blow the whistle.

[Editor's note: Steve Burgess is an accredited spin doctor with a PhD. in Centrifugal Rhetoric from the University of SASE, situated on the lovely campus of PO Box 7650, Cayman Islands.