Reading Time: 3 minutes There were drug addicts on the street in 1976, but somehow many of the interactions seemed to involve mentally ill people
Tag: BC
Vancouver cannot ignore its dark ‘Skid Row’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Vancouver has to begin catering less to the needs of the international elites and more to its own citizens
Tourism is B.C.’s great hope for 2016
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here’s why tourism is going to be even bigger and more important in 2016
Ban on oil tanker traffic not based on evidence
Reading Time: 3 minutes Issuing a moratorium on oil tanker traffic off B.C.’s north coast ignores the evidence on the safety of transporting oil by sea
Tsawwassen natives’ LNG plan could benefit all B.C
Reading Time: 3 minutes But first, approval must be obtained from the 363 members of Tsawwassen First Nation, 170 of whom do not live on the reserve
BC economy may do a bit better in 2016 but . . .
Reading Time: 3 minutes … don’t expect any growth to come from these sectors
Small business not so small after all
Reading Time: 4 minutes 98% of us work for small or medium firms
Wait times continue to drag health care outcomes down
Reading Time: 3 minutes It will take political courage to improve Canada’s health care system
Housing costs driving youth out of Vancouver
Reading Time: 3 minutes The young and the mobile are exercising their right to just leave
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