Commentary

Renewables meet energy realities in a recent International Energy Agency (IEA) report. For anyone championing the renewable energy agenda, there is more light on the horizon; for energy realists, there’s a lot of business as usual.

Carbon tax economic realities could dampen the provincial government’s late summer harvest of upbeat agriculture industry news. Recent numbers show 2015 sales of food grown in B.C.

The waves of financial distress stemming from Hanjin Shipping’s potential sinking threaten to extend up and down B.C.’s coast.

Recent numbers show Asian awareness on the rise in Canada. That bodes well for the country’s worldly outlook.

The predictable debate around its climate action plan update points to a larger issue facing B.C. and the rest of the country: the need for national strategies to address critical economic challenges that have more than regional interests.

Foreign real estate buyers interested in sinking money into B.C. but less interested in paying the province’s new 15% foreign buyers tax in Metro Vancouver have several options. Farmland is one.

Opportunities are in the air for B.C. But they’re also there for any region with the enterprise to tackle one of the world’s top threats to human health.

Something had to be done, and it was. The open question now is what will be the impact of the province’s snap decision – a flip-flop of sorts – to impose a 15% surcharge on foreign-bought homes in Metro Vancouver.

More regulation might be good for appeasing residents agitating for action on runaway real estate prices, but it’s not so good for resolving that issue and others facing Canadian municipalities.