Commentary

It has been evident in recent weeks and months that the federal government is in a weak position – even though it might proceed – to grant the go-ahead to widen the Trans Mountain pipeline.

The Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador has upheld a labour arbitration award that endorsed an employer’s refusal to employ a user of medical cannabis. In International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Loc. 1620 vs.

Marketing and branding cannabis and its derivatives in Canada presents significant challenges. The federal government built the marketing restrictions in the federal Cannabis Act on the restrictions developed for the tobacco industry.

With the school year about to end, it is a good time to take a look at the education system.

There are, I am sure, smarter choices of people with whom to perpetuate a scrap than the province’s attorney general. But I must.

The two sides in last week’s port workers contract negotiations were up against some extremely complex global issues. It is not an easy time to plan ahead for the current year, let alone the next five.

Lament our leadership. Granted, most every politician needs to possess the ingredients of blarney and bluster. What genuine veins they possess must on occasion run cold blood through them to evade those moments in which they are cornered.

It was in London that I first realized what a major accomplishment we had made with regards to cannabis legalization in Canada, and that we are viewed favourably around the world for our accomplishments on the medical as well as, more recently, the r

I have been thinking a lot about how much I do. Not in some aggrandized “Look at me and how much I get done” kind of way, but instead in the “There are 24 hours in a day and I spend an awful lot of precious hours doing lots of stuff” kind of way.

Hard for B.C. government and public to admit that we drove real estate values up all by ourselves