Economy, Law & Politics

Managing editor Timothy Renshaw on the news of the week

Consumer prices grew 1.6%—slightly lower than analysts’ expections—in Canada year-over-year in December after...

By Charles Lammam As a new year begins and Canadian governments prepare their budgets, it’s a good time to reflect on the state of government indebtedness in the country. Unfortunately, it’s not a pretty picture.

British Columbians are more worried about the health of the provincial economy than they were a year ago

Canada’s central bank has downgraded its economic outlook for 2016, but this was not enough incentive for it to...

Low dollar, Asian expansion ambitions accelerate push to attract Asian head offices to B.C.

Apple, Samsung and Sony, among other companies, are being accused by Amnesty International of allegedly failing to do basic checks to...

What started as a dispute has turned into a bridge between communities

When he was 17 and fresh out of high school, Squamish Nation Chief Ian Campbell jumped at the chance to spend two months living with the Mapuche people in Chile as part of an indigenous peoples’ exchange funded by the Canadian International Developme

“It’s still an incredible opportunity. It’s the size of the market, and everything there’s growing so fast.”