Commentary

My name is Valentina Radchenko. I have worked at the railroad station since 2006. I have my own store there to sell trinkets and souvenir products. I had four such stores before the pandemic; now there is one left.

In response to the invasion of Ukraine, organizations, corporations and legislators around the globe and in British Columbia have been divesting from Russian companies.

As the world observes the third anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some hints about life returning to normal soon.

I am old enough to remember the regular nuclear war drills at school: the bells prompting us to curl into fetal positions under the wooden desks, or in the more involved version, hands held with someone on your right and left, your nose and toes pres

B.C. support for reinstating the death penalty rises 13 points since 2021 to reach a countrywide high of 59%, poll finds

COVID-19’s radical office culture makeover will not be economically sustainable for employers if it leads down a one-way street weighted too heavily in favour of employees.

Technology’s gender and diversity gap has been widely known, discussed and worked on for years, and yet it persists.

Unless some drastic event takes place, we are still more than two years away from the next provincial election in British Columbia.

Two years ago this week, amid anxiety and uncertainty about the coronavirus, thousands of employers sent millions of Canadians home. Fingers were crossed that work could be conducted remotely without chaotic collapse. We were among them.

Smartphones and voice recording apps make recording conversations easy. Employees may be tempted to create a record of a performance review or salary negotiation, but surreptitiously recording conversations at work breaches trust and privacy.