Commentary

Granville Island is regularly featured in documentaries and “top 10” lists that discuss Metro Vancouver’s best tourism attractions.

Twice a year I moonlight as a tour leader for small groups of international travellers. It’s a dream job, really. For a few weeks in the spring and then again in the fall, I get to travel to some of the world’s most incredible places.

Word has it that the federal government now has a short list of companies bidding to replace the financial fiasco that is the Phoenix payroll system.

I am reminded of the old joke about the restaurant: “Waiter, what’s this fly doing in my soup?” “The backstroke, I believe.” If you don’t find that funny – understandable if not – there is a local similar situation even less amusing.

Midway in a mandate is when a government’s impact is finally felt and its direction usually made clear.

Last month, about 200 governments around the world agreed to set newer targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland.

Here’s what would provide British Columbians and their fellow Canadians with a profitable start to 2019: begin cultivating a better appreciation of how much natural resource riches contribute to Canada’s economic and political stability.

2018 was a year of new opportunities and challenges. Infrastructure decisions were made without business plans and organized public engagement. The hold on pipeline infrastructure investments, nationalistic policies in the U.S.

Conversations related to public policy in British Columbia were dominated by housing and pipelines in 2018.

This past year was one of progress toward reconciliation.