Commentary

Political scandals – usually about money, sometimes about sex – have their own laws of physics. Their pathologies rarely deviate. In the case of l’affaire SNC-Lavalin, what we are witnessing is textbook.

In May 2018 I went to Shanghai with the Toronto Board of Trade. The purpose of the trip was to connect Canadian businesses with Chinese buyers. We also met with the Canada/China Chamber of Commerce.

As the BC NDP government prepares to table its 2019 budget, there is no reason to believe that Finance Minister Carole James is contemplating any major course corrections.

Note: This column has been updated. Today the Liberal government finds itself cornered by a credible allegation, a cabinet resignation and a competence test.

During last year’s municipal election campaigns in the Lower Mainland, housing was by far the most important issue for residents of the city of Vancouver and most adjacent municipalities.

For the past two months, the arrest of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver has captured headlines across Canada and the world.

The spectre of a recession should be informing our provincial and federal budgets this month, but we are worried that will not be the case with two governments casually treating the public balance sheet.

LMS Reinforcing Steel Group president and chief operating officer Norm Streu’s rhetoric is hard to swallow in his recent commentary for Business in Vancouver on the provincial government’s new Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) construction framework

Note: This column has been updated.

In early January, thanks to science, I received a belated but blessed Christmas gift. A half-sister. We grew up in the same city – two years apart, she of adoption, me of a single mother—unaware of each other until now.