Commentary

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.

The B.C. economy grew by a surprisingly robust 3.8% (after inflation) last year. This is surprising because not only does it follow a strong 3.

For the past couple of years, vaping has become ubiquitous in certain urban areas across Canada. Some of the country’s residents have become enthralled with the idea of inhaling and exhaling vapour produced by e-cigarettes or similar devices.

Well, shame on us for wanting Uber and Lyft. The BC NDP government has shown our demands to be unnecessary.

The new Surrey is in danger of finding itself on a return trip to the old Surrey when it comes to intermunicipal transportation. And that’s bad for business prospects in B.C.’s fastest-growing urban area.