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The Diana Gibson who wrote that you cannot have it both ways was right. The Diana Gibson who carried Bill 9 into law is proving the point.
The Villages Plan is fraught with issues and demands a rethink with meaningful input from residents.
Carney's path to striking a functional deal with the Americans requires something Carney cannot deliver: concessions.
Big cost overruns mean tax hikes, more debt, service rollbacks — or all three.
Eby speaks about China freely when the subject is trade. His silence on everything else is therefore not an inability to speak — it is a choice about what’s worth speaking about.
Reservations are the culture-war issue, but infrastructure is the real governing issue.
Let entrepreneurs and residents choose where villages grow — don't make them compete for limited space in designated areas.
Canada has a serious Jew-hating problem, and it appears to be alive and well in BC’s public service.
Without clear answers on public access, governing authority, and enforcement, we risk building out a conservation system that is politically fragile and ineffective.
The World Cup should be a catalyst for Vancouver’s gradual transformation into a more walkable, truly transit-oriented city.
Instead of making haphazard, poorly thought-out announcements, perhaps it’s time for Eby and his housing minister to develop Better Homes for BC 2.0.
Transparency has thinned, public engagement has narrowed, and decisions with sweeping consequences are increasingly made through processes that sideline community input.
If we want a Canada — and a BC — that its citizens love enough to build something great out of, we cannot wait for greatness to arrive first. We have to start with the love.
Instead of using taxpayer money to buy overpriced condos, Carney and Eby should be cutting the taxes, red tape and delays that make it so expensive to build in the first place.
Investment does not require perfection. It requires predictability.
The promise of a liberal democracy is simple and powerful: every individual, regardless of origin, stands equal before the law, equal in opportunity, and equal in their claim to dignity.
The only long term antidote to the suspicion of elite capture is meaningful grassroots power.
Using a decline in deaths to argue that harm reduction isn't working is like using a decline in traffic fatalities to argue against seatbelts.
British Columbia deserves a reconciliation framework measured not by the sophistication of its legal architecture, but by whether Indigenous communities are demonstrably better off.
The band attempted to claim it was a private contractual party when accountability was at stake, but also a public authority when powers of governance were at stake.
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