Reading Time: 3 minutes Toronto and Vancouver have restricted Airbnb listings to a primary residence. The number of listings is dropping fast
Category: Eye on BC
Big spending, big problems on the horizon for B.C. government
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite the promise of yet more new programs to come, there’s actually little room in the budget for more spending
B.C. budget abandons any hope for efficient carbon tax
Reading Time: 3 minutes Subsidizing green projects with revenue from carbon taxes may be politically popular but it’s fundamentally misguided policy
Environment-friendly “plyscrapers” blocked by red tape
Reading Time: 3 minutes The USDA estimates every four storeys would save the same amount of carbon emissions as created by 500 cars every year
Spending on B.C. public schools up despite dwindling enrolment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Per-student spending is up, flying in the face of claims that education funding has been slashed or that B.C. schools are starved for resources
B.C.’s new government heads for a familiar debt trap
Reading Time: 3 minutes The New Democrats offer up a significant and impressive list of expenditures, with no clear plan how it will pay for them
Another Trudeau turns on Western Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Justin risks a similar fate to his father’s if he also allows the radical wing of his party to undermine the economy
B.C. government: public transit too risky for children
Reading Time: 3 minutes By sending his children to school on public transit in Vancouver, Adrian Cook ran afoul of the provincial government’s nanny state mentality
B.C.’s new business as usual: political and economic uncertainty
Reading Time: 3 minutes NDP election win prompts waves of uncertainty that threaten investment and economic growth in B.C.
The unintended, and painful, consequences of a $15 minimum wage
Reading Time: 3 minutes A government-mandated increase in the price of low-skilled labour tends to lead employers to reduce their labour force