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
Tag: BC economy
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
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
B.C. Greens should support Site C dam, for all British Columbians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Aboriginal rights are extremely important but, like any Charter right, they’re not absolute. They must be balanced against other competing critical interests
How will B.C.’s NDP pay for deal with Greens?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Will a Horgan-led government keep the NDP’s election promise to balance the budget and, if so, how in the face of Green-driven spending plans?
How an NDP-Green government can free up B.C.’s housing supply
Reading Time: 3 minutes If housing affordability for average British Columbians is the goal, local and provincial governments should reduce barriers to development
Why Trudeau and Notley are right to support pipeline expansion
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need the Trans Mountain project in order to protect the environment, keep costs in control, ensure the safety of workers and bolster the nation’s economy
Election results could spell trouble for B.C.’s tax competitiveness
Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C.’s political leaders should prioritize its citizens’ economic well-being over party politics