Commentary

At the beginning of any performance management process, the employer must set reasonable, objective standards of performance Performance management of an underperforming employee is one of the more challenging human resources tasks for employers.

In movies about spies, self-destructing messages offer a convenient way to secretly communicate. While businesses sometimes have a similar need for privacy, self-destructing messages are not a viable option.

The previous BC Liberal government’s decision to build a third dam on the Peace River without the multibillion-dollar project first undergoing BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) scrutiny has left the province with a lot of Site C choices.

On August 3, 2017, John Horgan’s BC NDP government gave the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) an impossible charge: review the then-$8 billion Site C project (now the $10 billion Site C project) in three gruelling months.

Performance management of an underperforming employee is one of the more challenging human resources tasks for employers.

The free-market corporate world has mechanisms to fix its messes. Not so the realm of Crown corporations. There have been a number of problems in ordinary corporate governance in recent decades.

Debate over commercial tax burdens needs rekindling, especially in Vancouver, where doing business in an expensive city is already a challenge. Consider Altus Group Ltd.’s 2017 Canadian Property Tax Rate Benchmark Report.

Day by day it is feeling as though the emergence of Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, could not happen at a better time for our aspirations as a country.

Talks to refresh North America’s trade agreement seem to be heading nowhere, and that could spell serious trouble for Canada’s agri-food sector. Wanting to push back on Mexico’s influence over the U.S.

I’ve had some wonderful bosses over the years, but never two dozen of them at once. I have a feeling that would wear on me, even if they were the best of the bunch. I suspect you’d feel the same.