Opinions

| June 8, 2026

BINDA: BC taxpayers have three simple demands

End wasteful spending, cancel the tax hikes, and stop the debt avalanche.

| June 5, 2026

DOHM: Co-governance began a while ago — and nobody voted for it

Elected representatives in our legislature hold the exclusive responsibility to write laws, collect and allocate revenues, and scrutinize the legislative work of their colleagues before it becomes provincial law.

| June 3, 2026

AMIR: The establishment lost the BC Conservatives' leadership race — and learned nothing

Dismissing these forces as fringe or unserious (or ‘MAGA’) does not make them disappear.

| June 2, 2026

ZIVO: Could the BC NDP engineer a Carney-style revival?

Should West supplant Eby, then Findlay may be in trouble. It’s not unimaginable that many centrists would prefer a reformed, West-led NDP over a “true blue” BC Conservative party.

| June 1, 2026

JÄGER: BC Liberals 2.0? Yeah no, I don't think so

On the Boultbee to Brodie spectrum, Findlay is idelogically closer to the leader of OneBC.

| June 1, 2026

MIRKO: BC's coastal communities face growing uncertainty over public land governance

Until governments establish clear, lawful, and transparent frameworks, they are not advancing reconciliation or stewardship. They are creating confusion, conflict, and risk on the water.

| May 30, 2026

MCLEAN: It's a new era in BC politics

The Conservative Party of BC is choosing its next leader at a moment when the province is in the middle of something larger than any single party’s internal drama.

| May 26, 2026

VANCE: The pandemic is over — free Kits Pool!

Kits Pool — one of the most iconic public amenities in all of Canada — is still being run like it's March 2020.

| May 25, 2026

RUSS: Alberta-bashing will not rescue David Eby

Eby is trying to rerun expired political battles with an audience that is opposed to his intransigence and exhausted by his leadership.

| May 21, 2026

THIELMANN: Eby hoists own party on petard of 'Nazi rhetoric'

"Armstrong uttered the words 'blood and soil' in the process of condemning blood and soil ideology."

| May 19, 2026

ROBINSON: Our democracy demands opposition

The benefit of spending time in opposition before getting to be on the government side of the House is the development of empathy for those whose job it is to continually challenge and oppose.

| May 15, 2026

PARFITT: Don't listen to the doomers — BC is awash in timber

The good news is that it is easier to fix incompetence than it is to create the world's best conditions for timber production.

| May 13, 2026

WEST: On National Police Week, we should back those who run towards trouble

Criticism aimed at improving policing is one thing. Attacks designed to demoralize police, delegitimize law enforcement, and excuse criminal behaviour are something else entirely.

| May 12, 2026

PAINTER: When the conflict of interest cop has a record

By the standard Findlay invented Saturday, the leader of this party cannot be married to a sitting member of its caucus.

| May 8, 2026

LAWTON: Canada doesn't have an environmental strategy — it has an anti-industry ideology

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the treatment of mining.

| May 7, 2026

RUSS: Forget vape shops — Vancouver needs more craft breweries

A brewery is a social institution, while a vape shop is an addiction kiosk with LED lights.

| May 6, 2026

AMIR: Sorry, Southsiders! The Whitecaps are good as gone

The people of Vancouver deserve the Whitecaps. Unfortunately, political leadership across multiple levels of government failed, over many years, to position Vancouver to seriously compete in the modern business of professional soccer.

| May 5, 2026

BINDA: What's happening in BC isn't normal

BC used to have a sterling reputation when it came to managing taxpayer money. Now credit rating agency S&P Global has downgraded BC five times in five years, from AAA to A.

| May 4, 2026

NANAYAKKARA & WHIDDEN: Entrepreneurs are tired of Victoria's blame game — they want action

Small business owners keep pointing to the same made-in-BC problems: high taxes, red tape, payroll costs that penalize growth, and constant rule changes that make planning for the future harder.

| May 1, 2026

SLOBINSKY: We can disagree without making comparisons to the Nazis

Frivolously invoking the words used to dehumanize people more than eight decades ago cheapens their impact, erodes our collective understanding of history, and numbs the public to the very real antisemitism our community faces today.