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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.
Islamists and their ideology are a far greater threat to the LGBTQ community than western governments, capitalism, or colonialism have ever, or will ever be.
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.
Those of us who have found comfort in the warm embrace of this great nation ought to cheer when our men in red take to the pitch — but that needn't come at the expense of supporting the others that have special places in our hearts.
A mayoral or council candidate does not have to promise the moon, or even modest reform. They can still pledge to make noise and badger the higher levels of government to take action.
But even if a BC Liberal identity existed, there is no credible person to carry it.
If our leaders were really interested in fostering a country and province that upholds its civic duty and "fighting" antisemitism they would be focusing their efforts on how the problem is being perpetuated.
End wasteful spending, cancel the tax hikes, and stop the debt avalanche.
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.
Dismissing these forces as fringe or unserious (or ‘MAGA’) does not make them disappear.
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.
On the Boultbee to Brodie spectrum, Findlay is idelogically closer to the leader of OneBC.
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.
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.
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