Commentary

Global credit and foreign exchange markets have been roiled in recent weeks owing in part to fears that the Delta variant might throw the recovery off track.

If it really is going to be back to the office but not back to the office as most employers and employees knew it pre-pandemic, then far more will have to change than work schedules and the mix of in-office and at-home hours.

The 2015 Canadian federal election began with the three main contending parties in uncharted territory in British Columbia. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party trailed the New Democratic Party (NDP) under Tom Mulcair.

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of the words “state of emergency” by the provincial government may have been new to many British Columbians.

For summertime reading pleasure and significance, it is hard to top the most recent issue of the journal Sustainability and its riveting centrepiece, An Analysis of the Potential for the Formation of ‘Nodes of Persisting Complexity.

Smog, wildfires, and intermittent oppressive heat are upon us, leaving us praying for rain and better days ahead without much relief in the forecast.

Just over three in four respondents to survey say they know what systemic discrimination is – but only half think most Canadians have a sense of what the term means

Today there was Walk-in Wednesday to get the stragglers vaccinated at clinics in British Columbia. We’ll see how it fares.

If the COVID-19 pandemic had not arrived, this summer would mark the time for British Columbians to ponder the first four years of a provincial administration headed by the BC New Democratic Party (NDP) and with the support of the BC Green Party.

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has in the pandemic taken on a new density of despair. Once again, the summer heat has driven the traumatized and victimized out of sweltering warehousing riven with violence and virus.