Opinion News
Unconditional income?
By Charles Lammam and Hugh MacIntyre Almost 50 years ago, a Canadian Senate report declared that a basic income "is an idea whose time has come." Ever...
Rethink nominations
By Dermod Travis It was hardly front page news on the west coast, but St. John's lawyer Ches Crosbie, son of former Progressive Conservative MP John...
Saga of three pipelines
By Gwyn Morgan Canada is endowed with the third largest oil reserves in the world but lack of access to world markets means our oil is sold far below world...
No tax cut for middle class
By Charles Lammam, Jason Clemens and Hugh MacIntyre With tax season just behind us, many Canadians are realizing the full weight of the income taxes they paid...
Electric cars won't save us
By Lee Harding Anyone who says electric cars will save the world is dreaming. The adoption of electric cars over the next 20 years will barely shave a single...
Ministry of loneliness?
By Milton Friesen Since her January appointment as the U.K.'s minister of loneliness, Tracey Crouch has started work on multimillion-dollar anti-loneliness...
New gov't, old habits
By Dermod Travis There was a time when it took a new government a few years to pick up the bad habits that got its predecessor booted from power. It seems...
Private care essential
By Bacchus Barua Last month, on the heels of a new threat from the B.C. government to fine doctors who accept private payment for treatment already covered by...
Second chance in military
By Azmairnin Jadavji The Canadian military has a worrying shortage of personnel to fill its ranks. A variety of social and legislative changes have combined to...
Big money's last hurrah
By Dermod Travis The big money party is over – and what a party it was. Given its well-deserved reputation in B.C., it's fitting that it went out with...
ICBC's uncertain future
By John Chant It's no secret that the Insurance Corp. of British Columbia (ICBC) is under financial distress. But should it be saved? In 2016-17, it...
Pipeline - gloves dropped
By Ken Green Earlier this month, pipeline company Kinder Morgan announced it will suspend all "non-essential" activities and "related...
High cost of obstruction
By Kenneth P. Green, Elmira Aliakbari and Ashley Stedman In recent months, Canadian crude oil prices have dropped relative to other international benchmark...
Canada's climate failures
By David Suzuki Scientists, academics, environmentalists and communicators have urged governments to take the climate crisis seriously for decades. We’ve...
A flicker of LNG hope
By Kenneth Green and Niels Veldhuis The B.C. government recently announced it will provide a large tax incentive to promote the building of a natural gas...
Open for business? Not BC
By Charles Lammam, Hugh MacIntyre and Ashley Stedman Consumer spending and a hot real estate market have helped buoy British Columbia's economy in recent...
Drowning in sea of plastic
By David Suzuki The fossil fuel era must end, or it will spell humanity’s end. The threat isn’t just from pollution and accelerating climate change....
Property prices 'criminal'
By Lee Harding Everyone knew that Vancouver housing prices were criminal, they just didn't know by how much. By now, many are aware that offshore money,...
Too many looked other way
By Dermod Travis Could a similar question be posed of money laundering at B.C. casinos to that of the philosophical thought experiment, “if a tree falls...
Canada forest proud
By Derek Nighbor In Canada, the forest industry has been part of our lifeblood and a cornerstone of the economy for decades. The issue of how we manage our...