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Comment: B.C. embeds mental health stigma and discrimination in legal regulation

A commentary by the first vice‑president of the Law Society of B.C. There are innumerable reasons to oppose the B.C. government’s proposed...

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Brook Greenberg

Rob Shaw: Feds wash hands of drug decriminalization, leaving BC NDP to face fallout

B.C.’s 16-month experiment with decriminalizing small amounts of drugs officially ended in failure Tuesday, after Ottawa announced it had agreed...

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Rob Shaw

Bryan Yu: B.C. retail sales outperform national average as visitor numbers rise

Consumer weakness looks to have extended through the first quarter, with retail spending in Canada declining for a second consecutive month in...

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Bryan Yu

Canadians want more regulations around smoking, according to poll

Across the country, just over one in five Canadians (21 per cent) say they smoked tobacco over the course of the past year. Alberta and Quebec are...

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Mario Canseco

Opinion: 2026 World Cup goes from shiny object to fiscal nightmare for B.C.

In principle, you do not buy what you cannot afford. But when it comes to shiny objects and public finances, well, you just figure out a payment...

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Kirk Lapointe

Rob Shaw: Finance minister quick to deflect questions over troubled Surrey police transition

The BC NDP government insists its decision to force Surrey to leave the RCMP and create a new municipal police force is 100 per cent, ironclad,...

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Rob Shaw

Baldrey: Let's put Vancouver's 2026 FIFA World Cup spending into context

Come on now, did anyone really believe the original cost estimate for co-hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2026? I mean really, did the original...

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Keith Baldrey

Who says the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes?

Fred O’Riordan is the national tax policy leader at EY Canada and a former assistant commissioner of appeals at the Canada Revenue Agency. To...

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Fred O’Riordan

Carson Binda: B.C. should bring back an auditor general for local governments

With just one spending scandal, Metro Vancouver added an average of $725 to every North Shore family’s property tax bills.  Local governments have...

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Carson Binda

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