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Mike Hurley: Metro Vancouver works well but can work even better

Mike Hurley: Metro Vancouver works well but can work even better

From cleaner water to affordable housing, the region excels. But as pressures mount, reforms are needed to stay ahead of the curve.
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Rob Shaw: BC NDP forces through Bill 15, burning bridges along the way

Rob Shaw: BC NDP forces through Bill 15, burning bridges along the way

After gutting relationships with First Nations and municipalities, the party is left celebrating a costly win that may haunt it for years
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Opinion: Western Canada bearing the brunt of Ottawa’s flawed steel tariffs

Opinion: Western Canada bearing the brunt of Ottawa’s flawed steel tariffs

Retaliatory tariffs aimed at Trump are hammering Western Canada’s builders, families and economic future
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Mario Canseco: Support for private health care growing fastest among young Canadians

Mario Canseco: Support for private health care growing fastest among young Canadians

Research Co. polling reveals half of adults under 35 say the system would work better if privately run, a warning sign for governments hoping to preserve the public model
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Les Leyne: Premier heads west to give investors a 'big hug'

Les Leyne: Premier heads west to give investors a 'big hug'

Premier David Eby is off on a 10-day trade mission starting Saturday to Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.
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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. is drowning in debt and no one’s throwing a rope

Kirk LaPointe: B.C. is drowning in debt and no one’s throwing a rope

Behind the G7 growth talk is a story of household strain, lender complacency, and economic fragility
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Rob Shaw: NDP digs into BC Liberal playbook for 'phantom savings' budget

Rob Shaw: NDP digs into BC Liberal playbook for 'phantom savings' budget

Finance Minister Brenda Bailey borrows from 2009-era accounting tactics to patch holes in a $10.9B deficit
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Bryan Yu: B.C. housing stalls again as buyers wait and builders push ahead

Bryan Yu: B.C. housing stalls again as buyers wait and builders push ahead

With prices falling and buyers cautious, B.C.’s housing market looks stuck — except in the construction sector, where momentum is building
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Les Leyne: Eby's mining vision is confounding

Les Leyne: Eby's mining vision is confounding

Premier David Eby joined the vision quest this week, announcing a new drive to seize the “generational opportunity to build lasting prosperity” by way of multiple mines in the northwest.
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Nelson Bennett: B.C.’s Infrastructure Act offers some progress, but at what cost?

Nelson Bennett: B.C.’s Infrastructure Act offers some progress, but at what cost?

Bills 14 and 15 aim to fix a broken permitting system, yet they create a new problem: a process so subjective, it risks becoming arbitrary and unfair
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