Other Voices

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]

TRAVIS – 2017 B.C. election was the most expensive in history

August 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

B.C.’s 2017 ELECTION will go down in the history books and in more ways than one. The province’s closest election also turned out to be its most expensive. While the [Continue]