Business

There are signs of a comeback in housing sales, but more time is needed to be certain

David Eby has a nearly $6 billion surplus he is trying to disburse before the use-it-or-lose-it March 31 deadline.

Going into 2022, I think collectively we were optimistic that we were beginning to put COVID behind us. Then we started the new year and the Omicron variant hit right after the holidays.

As a founder that started a company in the 2007-08 global financial crisis, I sometimes feel like a grizzled veteran full of war stories and the accompanying scar tissue of difficult lessons learned through those experiences.

There is a growing story that government is incapable of meeting people’s needs, that government is powerless in solving the issues impacting our communities. I don’t accept this.

Workplace conduct is being more closely scrutinized today than ever before. Societal views regarding what crosses the line into bullying, harassment and discrimination is shifting. Meanwhile, adjudicators are taking note and adjusting accordingly.

Winter storms cancel flights and disrupt airport operations. Everyone knows that. Yet, when Metro Vancouver’s forecast delivered on its promise, the one entity required to trigger an adequate crisis response froze.

We close out our regular monthly columns for the year by revisiting the economic role and contributions of the province’s largest export industry: Forestry. The provincial Crown owns 95 per cent of all land in B.C.

A few months ago, Vancouver-based Nexii Building Solutions Inc. eclipsed a $2 billion valuation.

There is no doubt that COVID-19 has changed North America’s employer-employee relationship for good; but there is also no doubt that the economic realities governing employer survival and employee contributions to that survival have not changed for g