Business

Canada’s food service industry has suffered. But the pandemic may be exactly what it has been waiting for to make things better.

Rob Shaw: With 83% of its budget unspent, BC’s small business recovery plant program was overhauled yet again. The question isn’t whether it was necessary, but what took government so long.

Carol Anne Hilton: One of the biggest opportunities – and needs – in the emerging Indigenous economy is tech.

Jock Finlayson: To revive the economy, government should focus on strengthening B.C.’s leading export industries.

The first dam joke kind of works. The rest have some underlying issues.

Industry leaders should have known that society has changed and the industry needs to adapt.

Peter Menzies: From former Prime Minister Joe Clark to Donald Sutherland, some unlikely allies are trying to force CBC to stop its plans to dismantle Radio Canada International - which leads to some big questions about The Mother Corp's mandate.

Jack Middleton: Cold weather shows the need for reliable energy sources

The increased use of energy supplements is leading to harder butter that doesn’t soften at room temperature.

Ada Slivinski: If serving food and pumping gas can be done safely in a pandemic, so can peeing.