Commentary

By the end of December, the Vancouver Region had set new all-time records for most annual sales, lowest monthly inventory, and highest benchmark prices. The challenges facing potential buyers have only intensified heading into 2022.

Jody Vance: As we near the transition from pandemic to endemic, we’re also going to need to transition away from policing different levels of personal risk tolerance.

From court cases to leaders waxing and waning, a busy week around the stove.

Rob Shaw: A titan of Vancouver’s real estate scene proposes a new fix for the Lower Mainland’s out of control housing sector.

Mark Milke: Want a more affordable British Columbia? Try more high-paying resource jobs.

Welcome to UnSpun - The Orca's current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.

Michael Taube: Some drivers believe all-weather/all-season tires can handle harsh winter conditions. That’s not the case.

Even in a pandemic, the kids in Jody Vance’s life are getting on with their lives, at ease with their friends having varying levels of comfort and fear. We’d do well to follow their lead.

Dene Moore: The grounds of the former St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School reveal more of the awful truth Canadians are still coming to grips with.

The most grueling 300 since those Spartans had to defend that pass.