Commentary

More than 100 days have passed since Canadians were compelled to stay at home in order to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Remember back in February when Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart announced that he wanted next year’s property tax increase to be no more than 5%? Seemed odd at the time, considering the mayor a few months previous supported an 8.

John Horgan and Bonnie Henry have taken the Saran Wrap off the province and encouraged us at last to dig in. Not that there is a less risky, full-meal deal to feast upon much farther away this summer, anyway.

The arrival of Canada Day presents an opportunity to reflect on the institutions and features that can elicit feelings of pride among Canadians. Last year, when Research Co.

This arrival of July 1 this year feels more like something to get through than to savour, so squelched are the celebrations by both the pandemic and the social tensions of the times.

A few months ago, drone videos of empty streets in Europe served as a stern warning about what life at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic would look like. Stores were closed and plazas had no tourists walking about.

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There’s nothing like an economic meltdown to expose a skewed property assessment system in British Columbia’s commercial real estate market. Many B.C.

Government has some difficult debt decisions ahead that will have a lot to say about Canada’s future prosperity.

Over the past few weeks, several Canadian provinces have started to reopen after a prolonged lockdown. The COVID-19 pandemic compelled Canadians to figure out certain things that few of us had considered before.