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Rob Shaw: Like with approvals, expect delays on housing reform results

Rob Shaw: Like with approvals, expect delays on housing reform results

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.
Outlook 2023: The bill for Canada’s long run of low-interest rates is coming due in 2023

Outlook 2023: The bill for Canada’s long run of low-interest rates is coming due in 2023

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
Outlook 2023: Voters: Are you ready to return to the ballot box in 2023?

Outlook 2023: Voters: Are you ready to return to the ballot box in 2023?

As of this moment, elections will take place in three Canadian provinces in 2023: Alberta, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island.
Chris Gardner: Canada needs to pick up its economic tempo

Chris Gardner: Canada needs to pick up its economic tempo

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.
Rob Shaw: B.C. post-secondary minister ‘pushes haters back’ at drag queen story time protest

Rob Shaw: B.C. post-secondary minister ‘pushes haters back’ at drag queen story time protest

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.
Outlook 2023: Increased inflow of newcomers will be Metro Vancouver’s greatest challenge, opportunity in 2023

Outlook 2023: Increased inflow of newcomers will be Metro Vancouver’s greatest challenge, opportunity in 2023

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.
Outlook 2023: Canada’s economy enters 2023 with serious structural weaknesses

Outlook 2023: Canada’s economy enters 2023 with serious structural weaknesses

The year 2022 will be remembered as the “Great Reinflation.
Rob Shaw: Eyes on Eby to support struggling B.C. forestry sector

Rob Shaw: Eyes on Eby to support struggling B.C. forestry sector

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.
No access gained from tepid Information Act review

No access gained from tepid Information Act review

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.
Editorial: The high cost of low-carbon transportation

Editorial: The high cost of low-carbon transportation

Are consumers ready to put their money where their mouths are on the road to low-carbon transportation? Ready or not, more of that money will be on the line this year, because, as of Jan.