Reading Time: 4 minutes Why would elected officials promote a construction jobs figure six times Kinder Morgan’s actual number?
Category: Eye on BC
Should equalization really grow forever?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A rule requiring payments to grow – no matter what the circumstances – can only exacerbate regional friction
B.C.’s Sunshine Coast gets a taste of the raging wildfires
Reading Time: 4 minutes 70 years of Smokey the Bear and aggressive wildfire suppression efforts filled the forests with a tinder load just waiting to blow
The prohibitive cost of living in Metro Vancouver
Reading Time: 3 minutes The extraordinary run-up in real estate prices like the one experienced in the Lower Mainland raises the odds of a painful market correction
B.C. government’s pipeline paranoia putting safety at risk
Reading Time: 3 minutes Real world data shows that oil can be moved safely and less expensively by pipeline, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Drawn once again by the siren of politics and service
Reading Time: 4 minutes I first ran for public office as a provincial Liberal candidate in 2007. Ten years later, almost to the day, it’s happening again
B.C. government wants to fix a school system that isn’t broken
Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C. students lead Canada in student performance in several areas while keeping per-student costs in public schools among the lowest in the country
Exploring the islands of B.C.’s Nuchatlitz lagoon
Reading Time: 4 minutes From sublime beauty to mysteries of an unknown world tucked away at the edge of the Pacific ocean
B.C. must develop a stronger corporate head office presence
Reading Time: 3 minutes Success on growing more locally-based companies and attracting firms from elsewhere would produce sizable economic dividends for the province
Forest fires torching a province’s economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The long-term economic impact of the fires ravaging the British Columbia interior – including on the logging and tourism industries – will be devastating