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Kits Pool — one of the most iconic public amenities in all of Canada — is still being run like it's March 2020.
Eby is trying to rerun expired political battles with an audience that is opposed to his intransigence and exhausted by his leadership.
"Armstrong uttered the words 'blood and soil' in the process of condemning blood and soil ideology."
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.
The good news is that it is easier to fix incompetence than it is to create the world's best conditions for timber production.
Criticism aimed at improving policing is one thing. Attacks designed to demoralize police, delegitimize law enforcement, and excuse criminal behaviour are something else entirely.
By the standard Findlay invented Saturday, the leader of this party cannot be married to a sitting member of its caucus.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the treatment of mining.
A brewery is a social institution, while a vape shop is an addiction kiosk with LED lights.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With a province this vast, and communities spread out in every corner, it should not be lost on the government that implementing a mandate would not be appropriate without ensuring that EVs can reach these communities.
If you're an entrepreneur, investor, or builder in Canada, BC First Nations are among the most important economic partners in this country.
Every candidate was subjecting the other to an ideological purity test — and none were passing.
At a time when the province needs serious, disciplined leadership, voters are left without a credible, pragmatic option.
The small clique of activists and politicians ramming these changes through seem blissfully unaware that they are achieving the precise opposite of what they claim to want.
Interest alone does not guarantee a team, and recent history across Major League Baseball suggests that market size and enthusiasm are only part of the equation.
For now, the city is doing what it has always done best: hoping, quietly, while trying not to jinx it.
Critics who see only the party labels are missing the point — and forgetting our own history.
We have the institutions, the talent, the location, and the quality of life that cities around the world are spending decades trying to create.
The premier is at war on all fronts: with his own caucus, with First Nations, and with public opinion.
Rather than following the treaty process, the government simply occupied the land, thus leaving BC with vast swaths of unceded territory that are now the subject of land claims centuries later.
It’s time to unlock the promise of Canada again — but we can only do that if we re-engage citizens as the drivers of positive change
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