Commentary

When you write columns about disputes and problems, you often hope they can be resolved even by the time someone reads what you’ve published.

According to the City of Vancouver, “community amenity contributions (CACs) are in-kind or cash contributions provided by property developers when city council grants development rights through rezoning.

When it comes to unifying catalysts, there’s nothing quite like a good presidential tirade. That appears to be a key take-away from the recent G7 summit.

Conventional wisdom is that, while bizarre, it is a badge of distinction as Canadians to have the world’s most powerful person suddenly like his adversary, the cultish nuke-hungry autocratic president who imprisons and starves dissenters, more than h

Second of two parts So what caused B.C.’s housing crisis and what should the BC NDP government be doing to preserve jobs and make housing more affordable? In 1990, the average mortgage rate was over 12%.

Almost as quickly as Roseanne Barr’s Twitter meltdown hit the headlines and racist rants by others gained infamy on social media, the perpetrators of those outbursts were fired.

The federal government’s interminable Phoenix pay system fiasco reinforces the need to bring meaningful accountability to the ranks of government bureaucracy, especially at its most senior level.

A friend, broadcaster Jody Vance, swears to me she did not pull strings last week to get her issue heard on the local news. I wouldn’t have blamed her if she had, though. I’m about to do the same.

The man in the middle is quite a man. Ernie Crey, leader of the Cheam First Nation, has arguably emerged as the most important factor in finding the middle path in the national and provincial dispute to build the $7.

Theresa Wiseman, a nursing scholar from the University of Southampton, describes empathy as having four characteristics: •perspective taking – recognizing another’s truth as our own; •refraining from judgment – something so hard to do considering how