Other Voices

KINSELLA – Joshua Boyle’s visit with Justin Trudeau has a simple explanation

January 11, 2018 // 1 Comment

NOT SO LONG ago, I was in Vancouver at the same time as Jean Chretien. We decided to get together at a spot in Gastown. It was sunny and a truly beautiful day. Looking [Continue]

OPINION: Sports community needs to talk about risks to high-level athletes

January 9, 2018 // 1 Comment

By JON HESHKA and JEFF JACKSON Max Burkhart, a 17-year-old German skier, was competing in the downhill event at the Nor-Am Cup in Lake Louise on Tuesday, Dec. 5, when he [Continue]

TRAVIS – When there’s an elephant in the room, acknowledge it’s there

January 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

WHO COULD possibly have imagined what 2017 had in store for British Columbia 12 months ago? We were all eyewitnesses to a future political-science seminar that left 87 MLAs [Continue]

TRUMP: ‘I would qualify as not smart, but … a very stable genius’

January 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

Musings from the President, tweeted on @RealDonaldTrump this week, with particular attention to his own genius and the new biography Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff: I [Continue]

MEDIA – The enduring legacy of maverick media baron Jim Shaw

January 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

By PETER MENZIES Contributor, Troy Media Few occasions better illustrated the cultural divide between the world of the western bottom-up entrepreneur and that of Ottawa’s [Continue]

FOOD – Putting a tax on meat would be an unpalatable proposition

January 5, 2018 // 3 Comments

By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS Senior Fellow Atlantic Institute for Market Studies IMPOSING A SIN TAX on foods that are deemed environmentally detrimental seems to be gaining support. [Continue]