Opinion News
Love BC? Buy BC
This B.C. Day long weekend, let's take time to enjoy food, friends and family. Let's also celebrate the farmers, producers, and local businesses who...
How to fuel entrepreneurs
By Ergete Ferede and Charles Lammam Entrepreneurship remains a vital source of innovation, which helps grow economies and provide employment opportunities for...
Inequality - why worry?
By Chris Sarlo Much ado about nothing. The title of the Shakespearean comedy comes to mind when I think about the attention devoted to wealth inequality in...
Echoes of semi-disclosure
By Dermod Travis Echo chambers has been popular as a buzz phrase as of late, the idea that we post and share links and opinions that we agree with on social...
Carbon tax - your bill
By Kenneth Green It took some poking and prodding and committee testimony, but now we know what the bill will be for a $50-per-tonne federal carbon tax. In a...
It's poverty, not inequality
By Chris Sarlo Does Canada need a new measure of poverty? That's what Michael Wolfson, member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the...
Hidden costs of crime
By Dermod Travis Move over Quebec, the mantle has been passed. With the release of Dirty Money, the report on money laundering in B.C. casinos by former RCMP...
Cleaning up dirty legacy
By Premier John Horgan For more than a decade, the B.C. Liberal government chose to ignore a cycle of money laundering linked to organized crime, the overdose...
A symptom, not problem
By Jino Distasi An increasing number of Canadians face the prospect of homelessness. Unlike regulated campgrounds, tent cities are without electricity, water...
Another brick in the wall
By Ken Green As virtually everyone knows by now, the federal government decided to address Canada's inability to get pipelines built from Alberta to...
BC's housing crisis
By Dermod Travis Ever sense that you've been listening to one, or more, of these rants again and again over the past few years? "It's foreign...
Horgan on health care
Too many people in B.C can’t find a family doctor, or are forced to wait long hours in emergency rooms in the evenings and on weekends to access the care...
Buy Canadian has a cost
By Sylvain Charlebois Canadians are encouraging one another to go "Trump-free" – that is, to shop for groceries without buying a single American...
Private cost of health-care queues
By Bacchus Barua It's no secret that Canadians face some of the longest health-care wait times in the developed world. According to the Fraser...
Raise won't help working poor
By Charles Lammam and Hugh MacIntyre On June 1, the minimum wage in B.C. increased from $11.35 to $12.65 per hour - the first in a series of hikes en route to...
Priming bad incentive pump
By Ken Green The decision to nationalize the Trans Mountain pipeline is not a victory, it's a failure. Back in April, Kinder Morgan announced it was halting...
Putting a price on mobility
By David Suzuki By 2002, drivers in London, England, were spending as much as half their commuting time stalled in traffic, contributing to much of the city...
How to cut wait times
By David Urbach Long wait times are the vulnerable soft underbelly of the Canadian health system. Canadians treasure our single-payer, publicly-funded program...
Shrinkflation - what's that?
By Sylvain Charlebois Rough estimates suggest that anywhere from 15 to 20 per cent of packaged food products in Canada have shrunk over the last five years....
Who's minding Site C?
By Dermod Travis Lost in the news over the Trans Mountain pipeline is that B.C. Hydro will be cutting a cheque to Flatiron/Graham, principal contractors on the...