Commentary

Looks like we may be heading for a second COVID-19 wave. If that’s the case, we should keep calm and grocery shop in this new normal.

Karen Ogen-Toews: The Road to Reconciliation begins when Indigenous people can stand on their own two feet financially, and when their quality of life increases.

Jody Vance: Of course Elections BC will make voting as safe as possible. But that doesn’t make forcing a by-definition unnecessary election healthy.

Warren Kinsella: The former prime minister steadfastly believed the people are always right - even if and when they disagreed with him.

There's a real economic and reputational opportunity for the taking.

In search of stability - or because someone amended a bill - or because the pull of the polls was like a supermassive black hole - we're really doing a pandemic election.

BC's tourism and travel sectors are bearing the full brunt of pandemic economic fallout. Jock Finlayson and Ken Peacock look at the numbers - and some ideas to alleviate the pain.

Dene Moore: The Lower Mainland and Victoria get the most attention – and resources – but per capita, the overdose crisis is more lethal in rural BC.

John Horgan may want to call an early election, but can’t say the real reason why. His problem is the whole province knows what it is.

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