Commentary

As we welcome this new year full of opportunity and hope, I’d like to suggest a few resolutions. One, let’s leave the term, “in these unprecedented times” in 2020.

Canadian governments are turning their attention to fixing the damage the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought on our economy.

Decarbonization has made its way into the corporate C-suite, but economic realities are conspiring to seat it further from the head table.

As we wave goodbye to a truly awful 2020, there are reasons to feel at least somewhat hopeful about the year to come. The first and most important is the arrival of vaccines against the virus that causes COVID-19.

Just two weeks after the U.S. election, members of Parliament from all parties unanimously backed a motion to invite president-elect Joe Biden and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris to address Parliament at the earliest safe opportunity to do so.

It’s becoming clear that with these half-measures we are courting, flirting with, even daring another wave of the pandemic to strike us in about 90 days.

A few weeks ago, Research Co. and Glacier Media studied the views of western Canadians on public safety, and found a significant disconnect between the perception of unlawful activity and the actual incidence of crime in four different provinces.

For most of us, the year ahead is going to be a lot better than the year we have just had. In discussing this with business leaders in recent weeks as we plotted our own path for 2021, clearly optimistic themes emerged in their expectations.

There has been no shortage of controversies related to “political correctness” over the past few years, some of them gravitating around the costume choices of future politicians in Ottawa and Virginia .

This past year, organizations and businesses across the province were forced to respond to the new reality imposed by COVID-19.