Commentary

As fall continues and temperatures drop across Canada, we may be in for a winter of increased home energy use.

John Horgan is fond of recalling his teacher’s edict: “Show your work.” The premier, faced with solving a big math problem in his largest test yet of his skills, last week skipped out of class without completing the exam.

On the first day of 2019, the province of Ontario will celebrate the second anniversary of the implementation of the Health Menu Choices Act.

On October 25, the B.C. government released the long-anticipated report on proposed Labour Relations Code changes.

Economic ignorance begins in the home. In Canada, more residents are clueing in to that reality.

There has never been an easier time to register a complaint. Two decades ago, negatively impacted consumers would leave messages in answering machines that were rarely acknowledged.

In Canada, debates about religious views in school have never been as polarizing as those in the United States. Dating back to the Scopes Trial of 1925, discussions about evolution and creationism in American classrooms have continued unabashed.

Canada runs a distant competitive second to America in many business arenas, but its Asia-Pacific Gateway is not one of them. B.C.’s transpacific trade entry points have become more than a match for their U.S. counterparts.

The main critique of BC NDP housing taxes has been that they breed attacks on the difficult-to-defend wealth of the longtime homeowner – that they are, in effect, thinly veiled class warfare.

In this year of municipal elections in British Columbia, housing was consistently the top-ranked issue for residents of Metro Vancouver – with the exception of Surrey, where public safety was deemed more important.