Commentary

This election marks a watershed moment for protecting wild Pacific salmon. Three political parties have pledged to transition open-net pen fish farms of Atlantic salmon along our coast to closed (likely land-based) systems.

I suppose I can screen everyone for this test here and now: have you ever been taken in from the streets by a crisis program? I suppose the answer is no, so what I describe now will explain why you are an unlikely candidate.

It has been a meh-lection campaign. Like, who can possibly get excited about these last few weeks? Why are we voting for the least dislikable choice? Not a single, solitary, distinct, specific, lone, unique idea.

Statistics Canada has estimated that there were 101,945 unfilled positions in B.C. during 2019’s first quarter, up 10% from the same quarter in 2018.

A year has passed since marijuana became legal in Canada, following a decision from the federal government that fulfilled a campaign promise by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Do something. That’s now a familiar call to arms from climate action advocates. But most don’t readily have practical science-based specifics on what that something is that governments and businesses should do.

A few years ago, the most recurrent joke about social media was related to the arrival of “your parents” to Facebook.

If you like to play the long game in your career, then there is an attractive new job opening. You can be leader of North America’s most successful party whose defining theme will increasingly occupy the next generation’s politics.

When Canadians ponder the meaning of the phrase “community engagement,” we often find stories that focus on negative traits.

U.S. politics have become a tinderbox of extreme inequality and nationalism, but the country’s continuing political crises are sparking major progressive economic policy proposals in response.