Reading Time: 3 minutes Opportunities for unskilled and lower skilled workers are fast disappearing
Category: Eye on BC
A better way to fund transit expansion
Reading Time: 3 minutes Look to existing budgets and not new taxes to fund transit expansion in Metro Vancouver
BC’s billion dollar healthcare boondoggle
Reading Time: 4 minutes The province Increased incentives payments to doctors to try to improve patients’ access to care. It didn’t work.
BC needs to fully embrace private sector healthcare delivery
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government monopoly is clearly failing British Columbians
Vancouver needs to add head offices
Reading Time: 4 minutes Compared to other larger Canadian centres, the Vancouver area isn’t doing too well
The glaring imbalance in Metro Vancouver’s transit plebiscite
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vast majority do not use public transit but are expected to pay for it with higher taxes on many of their day-to-day expenses
Changes to Foreign Worker Program could strangle Canadian economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Changes could also lead to rise in illegal workers
BC Ferries could learn a thing or two from Vancouver Airport Authority
Reading Time: 3 minutes YVR shows what can be done with a little entrepreneurial spirit
LNG has the potential to create thousands of BC jobs
Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C. can’t live off just tech and tourism
Land claims disputes damaging Ontario and BC mining sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes Both provinces can learn a thing or two from Saskatchewan’s successful relationship with First Nations