Commentary

As Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland works to develop the federal government’s 2021 budget, she faces conflicting pressures and numerous constraints.

COVID-19 has hurt British Columbia badly. It won’t be easy to get our economy moving up again quickly. All countries in the world will race to increase their manufacturing and tourism.

Here’s one business fundamental that COVID-19 has not affected: math. For a lot of Canadian small businesses, math’s bottom-line numbers following a year in the pandemic economy are painful and depressing.

With the glaring exception of Quebec, secessionist movements in Canada have a way of fizzling out, regardless of their intentions and intellectual gravitas. B.C. was briefly part of this trend in 2013.

In an era of social media, smart phones and “cancel” culture, an employee’s after-hours words or actions can quickly attract public scrutiny, outrage and ultimately employer sanctions.

The TSN 1040 we have known broke from its morning show around 9:30 last Tuesday. That TSN 1040 never returned. A monotone corporate message announced the station’s sport talk format was no more, that it was “unavoidable.

British Columbia is experiencing a second major renaissance in life sciences.

This winter has been particularly draining for many Canadians. Many hoped to have an opportunity to travel to warm destinations, only to see the latest developments in the COVID-19 pandemic make those trips impossible.

January’s BC Natural Resources Forum provided a refresher course for anyone in need of instruction in what continues to drive British Columbia’s economy.

A recent Canadian Housing and Mortgage Corp. (CMHC) report found that 11,118 condo units were added to the Metro Vancouver market in 2019, due in part to taxes on empty homes and restrictions on short-term rentals.