Commentary

You're an entrepreneur, not an accountant. You hate (read: loathe) dealing with the numbers side of your business.

Families feud. What they dispute is almost never as important as how they settle. But there is more to the conflict between the sibling provinces of B.C. and Alberta than the aim of resolution. There is principle involved in the fight.

Is anyone really prepared for marijuana legalization? The operators of illegal outlets around Metro Vancouver might be, but most legitimate businesses are not.

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.