Commentary

Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy unveiled late last year includes some encouraging signs that the region is moving to the top of the federal government’s trade development priority list.

Premier David Eby continues to promise reforms that will deliver “results that people will be able to see and feel in their lives,” but he unveiled another housing change this week that may take many months to show visible results, if at all.

As of this moment, elections will take place in three Canadian provinces in 2023: Alberta, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island.

The year that just ended threw up some big surprises, including the first land war in Europe since 1945, spiralling inflation and an exceptionally compressed cycle of monetary policy tightening engineered by central banks caught off guard by soaring

It’s a slam-dunk business deal if there ever was one; strategic for both Canada and Japan – with investment, jobs and climate change boxes all getting giant checkmarks.

When barely a dozen protesters tried to disrupt a drag queen story-time event at Coquitlam’s public library on Saturday, they were greeted by hundreds of flag-waving, singing, cheering supporters who drowned them out and pushed them back.

The year 2022 will be remembered as the “Great Reinflation.

Transformative periods in history are often recognized as such only with the benefit of hindsight, but their impacts are felt for years or even decades afterwards.

Hopes are high in B.C.’s forestry sector that Premier David Eby might be ready to offer up some sort of financial assistance to a beleaguered industry that is shutting down mills and laying off hundreds of people.

If it is true that you can’t teach an old dog a new trick, I have regrettably discovered you can at least trick an old dog.