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POLITICS – Provincial governments bear the burden of legalized marijuana

September 11, 2017 // 1 Comment

By MALCOLM BIRD Expert Adviser EvidenceNetwork.ca THE FEDERAL government is set on legalizing marijuana by summer 2018. While they will enjoy the political payoff of [Continue]

FLOOD WATCH – More watershed planning needed to avoid disasters

September 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

By Prof. PHIL ELDER University of Calgary IT WOULD be callous to respond unsympathetically to the Houston and area hurricane and flood, and the consequences: death, general [Continue]

TRAVIS – Sifting through the former government’s credit card charges

September 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

THERE’S NOTHING quite like poring through 87,527 credit card charges to the B.C. government’s plastic in 2016/17. Charges that can often be on top of a [Continue]

McGARVEY – Tax reforms may be a turning point in Liberal fortunes

September 5, 2017 // 1 Comment

IT ALL SEEMED perfectly reasonable: tax the low hanging fruit of “fat cat” professional corporations to fund programs for the poor. Who could object to that? Turns out [Continue]

ECONOMY – B.C.’s new business as usual: political, economic uncertainty

September 1, 2017 // 2 Comments

By LYDIA MILJAN Senior Fellow The Fraser Institute A SHADOW hangs over British Columbia’s political and economic future. Last spring, B.C. went through one of its most [Continue]

MEDIA – Finding salvation in the ashes of the daily newspaper business

August 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

By PETER MENZIES SOMETIME in the not-too-distant future, the nation’s largest media chain is expected to fail, taking many of the nation’s once proud but now emaciated [Continue]