Commentary

Last December in Paris at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21), 195 countries reached an unprecedented agreement to combat climate change.

There is no doubt the surprise election of Donald Trump as president of the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter will deal a blow to international efforts to cut emissions.

President Donald Trump. Well now, there’s a phrase we didn’t bank on.

While B.C. has recently posted some impressive economic numbers compared with the rest of the country, in a few areas we continue to underperform. The most glaring example is non-residential business investment.

The case for an expanded Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is all about providing secure retirement income. The Fraser Institute recently argued that the federal government has failed to make a convincing case for CPP expansion.

In the U.S. it’s called “dark money,” a way to spend big bucks on politics and remain relatively anonymous.

Ottawa recently announced a series of new regulations for the housing market to “protect the long-term financial security of borrowers and all Canadians.” You have to love the irony.

The Stanley Park protest last week was Justin Trudeau’s most substantial encounter with dissent as prime minister.

Infrastructure spending is like time-release medicine. It brings relief eventually, but in the short term it’s ineffective. It also can be tempting, and harmful, to increase the dosage when results are unapparent.

Writing on the eve of the U.S. election, I share the widespread concern that regardless of which party wins, dangerous forces have been unleashed that will be hard to contain. The anger, alienation and frustration bubbling up from millions of U.S.