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that B.C. Finance Minister Carole James will present on February 20 is the first real opportunity for the BC NDP government to outline its economic and fiscal priorities for the coming years.

I recently met with a friend who owns a mid-sized business. She had received an offer to sell part of her business to a royalty corporation and was wondering if doing so would be a good idea.

Fiscal discipline was apparently not atop government 2018 New Year’s resolutions. A lot of citizens in Canada also left it off their lists. Discipline on any front, apparently, is so 20th century.

Chef wants to share bannock and Indigenous cuisine with everyone

There is no small irony that the cover page of last week’s Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) report on a housing strategy is a photo of someone turning a doorknob.

Destroying Canadian business icons seems to be a trend. In 2017, it was Sears. While employees were losing their pensions because of poor management, lawyers and consultants were receiving millions as the business was shutting down.

Full disclosure: this story affects where I work. Some self-interest may be on display, even in trying to be fair to the issue.

The state of the north has a lot to do with the state of the south in B.C. The bad news for the north and the rest of the province, however, is that the urban economic engine in the southwest knows too little about the north and what it means to B.C.

The Employment Insurance Act (EIA) was recently amended to allow birth mothers to take their employment insurance (EI) benefits over an 18-month period. However, to date, the B.C. Employment Standards Act (ESA) has not been amended.

In the push to normalize electric vehicles, many forget it’s not the end of the road as far as environmental impact is concerned.