Commentary

Today we are enduring quite the coronavirus combo. Variant infecting. Insufficient vaccinating. Impatient awaiting. Ambiguous directing. Weak revitalizing. Uncertain supporting. Tardy manufacturing. Massive spending. Defensive leading.

Sim came within 958 votes of being city’s mayor in 2018 election

It has been particularly difficult for the restaurant industry to bounce back during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“How would you like to look?” For most, it’s an innocent question in a hair salon or barber shop when we book a time and place. We answer a variation of the question without much thought every few weeks, time and again.

B.C.

In Canada, where life is decidedly marked by the passing of the seasons, our psyche during the various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic has been influenced by the weather.

The 1994 movie The Paper was a hot mess, but it has one great scene that reminds me of Vancouver’s plan to later this year require permits to park on city streets.

Expanding economic diversity will help inoculate B.C. against the worst effects of COVID-19 and other debilitating marketplace challenges. Shrinking that diversity will do the opposite. Unfortunately, Ottawa and B.C.

Canadians are just a few weeks removed from observing the first anniversary of a lockdown that changed the way we labour, communicate and celebrate.

At a critical juncture last October 22, as the pandemic was racing through our province’s long-term care facilities, Ernst & Young reported to John Horgan’s BC NDP-led minority government on an astounding amalgam of ineptitude, incoherence and in