Commentary

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored how critical reliable access to the internet is. It has also exacerbated digital privilege and deepened the digital divide.

Its China complications aside, Canada has far more work to do now to cultivate its Indo-Asia-Pacific political and trade relationships.

We have written many times about the lack of purpose-built rental buildings in the Metro Vancouver area and the negative by-products which stem from this shortage.

It is an extraordinary proposal: 12-storey rental housing extensively in Vancouver, with no public hearings.

Just over 12 years ago, Vancouverites who drove downtown first found out that some of the parking spaces they relied upon would disappear and give way to new cycling infrastructure.

In an earlier age – when water was free and you paid for music – there was some reason for a broadcast regulator. Today: not so much, and in the expansive proposal now before Parliament, not at all.

“Through this pandemic, we’ve become a truly innovative and agile company.” I’ve probably heard that statement 100 times in the last six months.

In the year 2020, the justice systems of at least 18 countries around the world allowed a human being to be executed for a crime. Most of these individual instances where capital punishment was applied took place in China, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

What if we embraced aging? The pressure to be ageist is all around us. We live in a youth-minded culture with false limitations imposed on older people and especially on women.

Corporate brand value is hard won but easily lost. The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified that reality by exposing weak links in product and service delivery. There are several ways to measure corporate brand value.