Commentary

While First Nations issues have been front and centre in relation to resource development in B.C. for everyone, the issues of grinding poverty seem to affect only First Nations.

At the beginning of the year, we made a bold prediction: 2016 would belong to tech. The conditions were right.

Wages have remained largely stagnant for B.C. workers, and B.C.

As premier, my job is to ensure every action taken by government reflects the core values that built this province: create more opportunity, protect this magnificent place for future generations and take care of the people we love.

When 2016 began, Donald Trump was regarded as a joke and Justin Trudeau as an environmentalist crusader, and at least 75,000 British Columbians were going to have jobs in construction projects for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry.

2016 was a truly extraordinary year for the visual arts in Vancouver and for the Vancouver Art Gallery in particular, from renowned Vancouver photo-conceptualist Stan Douglas being named the winner of the prestigious annual Hasselblad Award to Vancou

The holiday season is a time both for reflection and for looking ahead to the future.

Mobile digital technology at the end of 2016 appears to be securing a foothold in the 21st-century financial world, but fintech speed and convenience will be of little benefit without increased financial literacy.

2016 began in the shadow of the unsuccessful Metro Vancouver transit plebiscite, yet it has ended with significant momentum for the future of our region’s transit and transportation networks.

If you listen carefully, at the end of each calendar year you hear a gusty communal exhalation of relief.